1 Corinthians 14:18
16 Otherwise, if you speak a blessing in spirit, how can someone who is uninstructed say “Amen” to your thanksgiving, since he does not know what you are saying?
17 You may be giving thanks well enough, but the other one is not edified.
I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you.
19 But in the church, I would rather speak five coherent words to instruct others than ten thousand words in a tongue.
20 Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you.
- KJV
- I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all:
- WEB
- I thank my God, I speak with other languages more than you all.
- ASV
- I thank God, I speak with tongues more than you all:
- DARBY
- I thank God I speak in a tongue more than all of you:
- BLB
- I thank God [that] I speak in tongues more than all of you⁺.
- ÅB
- Jeg takker Gud: jeg taler mere med tunge enn dere alle;
- OTB
- Jeg er takknemlig til Gud for at jeg taler med tunger mer enn dere alle;
- B1930
- Jeg takker Gud: jeg taler mere med tunge enn I alle;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Corinthians 1:4–6
I always thank my God for you because of the grace He has given you in Christ Jesus.
Read in context1 Corinthians 4:7
For who makes you so superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?
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