8for if also an uncertain sound a trumpet may give, who shall prepare himself for battle?


In Context

5 and I wish you all to speak with tongues, and more that ye may prophecy, for greater is he who is prophesying than he who is speaking with tongues, except one may interpret, that the assembly may receive edification.

6 And now, brethren, if I may come unto you speaking tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either in revelation, or in knowledge, or in prophesying, or in teaching?

7 yet the things without life giving sound — whether pipe or harp — if a difference in the sounds they may not give, how shall be known that which is piped or that which is harped?

8 for if also an uncertain sound a trumpet may give, who shall prepare himself for battle?

9 so also ye, if through the tongue, speech easily understood ye may not give — how shall that which is spoken be known? for ye shall be speaking to air.

10 There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is unmeaning,

1 Corinthians 14:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

14:8For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

14:8Again, if the trumpet does not sound a clear call, who will get ready for battle?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

14:8For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle ?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

14:8For if the trumpet give an uncertain voice, who shall prepare himself for war?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:8For also, if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself for war?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

14:8For if the trumpet give an uncertain voice, who shall prepare himself for war?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:8For if the trumpet shall give an uncertain sound, who will prepare himself for battle?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:8For if the trumpet gave an uncertain sound, who would prepare himself for war?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

14:8For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?