1 Corinthians 14:20-22
New King James Version
Tongues a Sign to Unbelievers
20 Brethren, (A)do not be children in understanding; however, in malice (B)be babes, but in understanding be mature.
21 (C)In the law it is written:
(D)“With men of other tongues and other lips
I will speak to this people;
And yet, for all that, they will not hear Me,”
says the Lord.
22 Therefore tongues are for a (E)sign, not to those who believe but to unbelievers; but prophesying is not for unbelievers but for those who believe.
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1 Corinthians 14:20-22
American Standard Version
20 Brethren, be not children in mind: yet in malice be ye babes, but in mind be [a]men. 21 In the law it is written, [b]By men of strange tongues and by the lips of strangers will I speak unto this people; and not even thus will they hear me, saith the Lord. 22 Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to the unbelieving: but prophesying is for a sign, not to the unbelieving, but to them that believe.
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- 1 Corinthians 14:20 Greek of full age. Compare 2:6.
- 1 Corinthians 14:21 Isa. 28:11f.
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