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20 (A)Brothers, (B)do not be children in your thinking; rather in evil (C)be infants, but in your thinking be mature. 21 In (D)the Law it is written, “(E)By men of strange tongues and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people, and even so they will not listen to Me,” says the [a]Lord. 22 So then tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe but to unbelievers; but (F)prophecy is for a sign not to unbelievers but to those who believe.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 14:21 In OT, Yahweh, cf. Is 28:13

20 Brothers, stop being[a] childish in your thinking. Be like infants with respect to evil, but think like adults. 21 In the Law it is written,

“By means of foreign languages
    and through the mouths of foreigners
I will speak to this people,
    but even then they will not listen to me,”[b]
        declares the Lord.

22 Foreign languages, then, are meant to be a sign, not for believers, but for unbelievers, while prophecy is meant, not for unbelievers, but for believers.

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