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1 Corinthians 14:19
“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.”
Verse in context — 1 Corinthians 14
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For you most certainly give thanks well, but the other person is not built up.
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I thank my God, I speak with other languages more than you all.
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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.
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Brothers, don't be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.
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In the law it is written, "By men of strange languages and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people. Not even thus will they hear me, says the Lord.
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