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Tongues Are a Sign For Unbelievers; Prophecy Is For Believers

20 Brothers, do not be children in your understanding. But be childlike in evilness, and be mature in your understanding. 21 It has been written in the Law [in Isa 28:11-12] that “I will speak to this people by people of other-tongues, and by the lips of others. And not even in this manner will they listen-to Me, says the Lord”. 22 So then the tongues are for a sign[a]— not for the ones believing, but for the unbelievers. But the prophecy is not for the unbelievers, but for the ones believing.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 14:22 That is, a sign of God’s presence in the one speaking to the unbelievers, as seen in Acts 2; or more specifically, a sign of God’s judgment on Israel, as in Isaiah 28.

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