NET Bible
"but in the church I want to speak five words with my mind to instruct others, rather than ten thousand words in a tongue."
— 1 Corinthians 14:19, NET Bible
“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.”
“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. ”
“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 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.”
Otherwise, if you are praising God with your spirit, how can someone without the gift say“Amen” to your thanksgiving, since he does not know what you are saying?
For you are certainly giving thanks well, but the other person is not strengthened.
I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you,
but in the church I want to speak five words with my mind to instruct others, rather than ten thousand words in a tongue.
Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking. Instead, be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.
It is written in the law:“By people with strange tongues and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people, yet not even in this way will they listen to me,” says the Lord.
So then, tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers. Prophecy, however, is not for unbelievers but for believers.