1 Corinthians 14:13-19

Revised Geneva Translation

¹³ Therefore, let him who speaks a tongue, pray that he may interpret.

¹⁴ For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding is without fruit.

¹⁵ What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, but I will pray with the understanding also. I will sing with the spirit. but I will sing with the understanding also.

¹⁶ Or else, when you bless with the spirit, how shall the one who fills the place of the unlearned say, ‘Amen’, at your giving of thanks, seeing he does not know what you say?

¹⁷ For truly you give thanks well, but the other is not edified.

¹⁸ I thank my God I speak languages more than you all.

¹⁹ Yet I would rather speak five words in my own understanding while also instructing others in the Church, than speak ten thousand words in a tongue.