21In 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.


In Context

18 I thank God, I speak with tongues more than you all:

19 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.

20 Brethren, be not children in mind: yet in malice be ye babes, but in mind be men.

21 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.

22 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.

23 If therefore the whole church be assembled together and all speak with tongues, and there come in men unlearned or unbelieving, will they not say that ye are mad?

1 Corinthians 14:21 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

14:21In the law it is written, With [men of] other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

14:21In the Law it is written: "Through men of strange tongues and through the lips of foreigners I will speak to this people, but even then they will not listen to me," says the Lord.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

14:21In the law it is written: In other tongues and other lips I will speak to this people; and neither so will they hear me, saith the Lord.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:21It is written in the law, By people of other tongues, and by strange lips, will I speak to this people; and neither thus will they hear me, saith the Lord.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

14:21In 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.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:21In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak to this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:21In 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.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

14:21in the law it hath been written, that, 'With other tongues and with other lips I will speak to this people, and not even so will they hear Me, saith the Lord;'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

14:21In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak to this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, said the LORD.