19However 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.


In Context

16 Otherwise if you bless with the spirit, how will he who fills the place of the unlearned say the |Amen| at your giving of thanks, seeing he doesn't know what you say?

17 For you most certainly give thanks well, but the other person is not built up.

18 I thank my God, I speak with other languages more than you all.

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.

20 Brothers, don't be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

21 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.|

1 Corinthians 14:19 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

14:19Yet 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.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

14:19But in the church I would rather speak five intelligible words to instruct others than ten thousand words in a tongue.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

14:19But 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.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

14:19howbeit 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:19but in the assembly I desire to speak five words with my understanding, that I may instruct others also, rather than ten thousand words in a tongue.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

14:19howbeit 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.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:19Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I may teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown language.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

14:19but in an assembly I wish to speak five words through my understanding, that others also I may instruct, rather than myriads of words in an unknown tongue.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

14:19Yet 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.