American Standard Version
"howbeit in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue. "
— 1 Corinthians 14:19, American Standard Version
“Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.”
“However in the assembly I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in another language.”
“but in the church I want to speak five words with my mind to instruct others, rather than ten thousand words in a tongue.”
“But in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that I may instruct others also: than ten thousand words in a tongue.”
“But in the church it would be better for me to make use of five words of which the sense was clear, so that others might have profit, than ten thousand words in a strange tongue.”
“Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.”
Else if thou bless with the spirit, how shall he that filleth the place of the unlearned say the Amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he knoweth not what thou sayest?
For thou verily givest thanks well, but the other is not edified.
I thank God, I speak with tongues more than you all:
howbeit in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue.
Brethren, be not children in mind: yet in malice be ye babes, but in mind be men.
In the law it is written, 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.
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.