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.


In Context

16 since, if thou mayest bless with the spirit, he who is filling the place of the unlearned, how shall he say the Amen at thy giving of thanks, since what thou dost say he hath not known?

17 for thou, indeed, dost give thanks well, but the other is not built up!

18 I give thanks to my God — more than you all with tongues speaking —

19 but 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.

20 Brethren, become not children in the understanding, but in the evil be ye babes, and in the understanding become ye perfect;

21 in 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;'

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 World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:19However 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.

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.