1 Corinthians 14:18-23

¹⁸I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you.

¹⁹But in the church, I would rather speak five coherent words to instruct others than ten thousand words in a tongue.

²⁰Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.

²¹It is written in the Law:

“By strange tongues and foreign lips

I will speak to this people,

but even then they will not listen to Me,

says the Lord.”

²²Tongues, then, are a sign, not for believers, but for unbelievers. Prophecy, however, is for believers, not for unbelievers.

²³So if the whole church comes together and everyone speaks in tongues, and some who are uninstructed or some unbelievers come in, will they not say that you are out of your minds?

— 1 Corinthians 14:18-23

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Cross References for 1 Corinthians 14:18-23

• Isaiah 28:11-12
• Jeremiah 5:15
• Deuteronomy 28:49
• 1 Corinthians 13:11
• 1 Peter 2:2
• Romans 16:19
• Matthew 18:3
• Ephesians 4:14-15
• 1 Corinthians 2:6
• Acts 2:6-12

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