1 Corinthians 14:20-22
Revised Standard Version
20 Brethren, do not be children in your thinking; be babes in evil, but in thinking be mature. 21 In the law it is written, “By men 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.” 22 Thus, tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers, while prophecy is not for unbelievers but for believers.
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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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