1 Corinthians 14:19-22

English Standard Version

¹⁹Nevertheless, in church I would rather speak five words with my mind in order to instruct others, than ten thousand words in a tongue.

²⁰Brothers, ^(A)do not be children in your thinking. ^(B)Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be ^(C)mature. ²¹^(D)In the Law it is written, ^(E)“By people of strange tongues and by the lips of foreigners will I speak to this people, and even then they will not listen to me, says the Lord.” ²²Thus tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers, while prophecy is a sign^[a] not for unbelievers but for believers.

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1 Corinthians 14:22 Greek lacks a sign

1 Corinthians 14:19-22

New International Version

¹⁹But in the church I would rather speak five intelligible words to instruct others than ten thousand words in a tongue.^(A)

²⁰Brothers and sisters, stop thinking like children.^(B) In regard to evil be infants,^(C) but in your thinking be adults. ²¹In the Law^(D) it is written:

“With other tongues
and through the lips of foreigners
I will speak to this people,
but even then they will not listen to me,^(E)
says the Lord.”^[a]

²²Tongues, then, are a sign, not for believers but for unbelievers; prophecy,^(F) however, is not for unbelievers but for believers.

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