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1 Corinthians 14:20-22
New International Version
1 Corinthians 14:20-22
New International Version
20 Brothers and sisters, stop thinking like children.(A) In regard to evil be infants,(B) but in your thinking be adults. 21 In the Law(C) 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,(D)
says the Lord.”[a]
22 Tongues, then, are a sign, not for believers but for unbelievers; prophecy,(E) however, is not for unbelievers but for believers.
Footnotes
- 1 Corinthians 14:21 Isaiah 28:11,12
1 Corinthians 14:20-22
Holman Christian Standard Bible
1 Corinthians 14:20-22
Holman Christian Standard Bible
20 Brothers, don’t be childish in your thinking, but be infants in regard to evil and adult in your thinking.(A) 21 It is written in the law:
I will speak to these people
by people of other languages
and by the lips of foreigners,
and even then, they will not listen to Me,(B)[a]
says the Lord. 22 It follows that speaking in other languages is intended as a sign,[b] not for believers but for unbelievers. But prophecy is not for unbelievers but for believers.
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- 1 Corinthians 14:21 Is 28:11-12
- 1 Corinthians 14:22 Lit that languages are for a sign
1 Corinthians 14:20-22
King James Version
1 Corinthians 14:20-22
King James Version
20 Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.
21 In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord.
22 Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying serveth not for them that believe not, but for them which believe.
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