and saying, ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we lamented to you, and you did not beat the breast.’
1 Corinthians 14:7 - The Scriptures 2009 Nevertheless, lifeless instruments making a sound, whether flute or harp, if they do not make a distinction in the sound, how shall it be known what is played on the flute or on the harp? Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition If even inanimate musical instruments, such as the flute or the harp, do not give distinct notes, how will anyone [listening] know or understand what is played? American Standard Version (1901) Even things without life, giving a voice, whether pipe or harp, if they give not a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped? Common English Bible Likewise, things that aren’t alive like a harp or a lyre can make a sound, but if there aren’t different notes in the sounds they make, how will the tune from the harp or the lyre be recognized? Catholic Public Domain Version Even those things that are without a soul can make sounds, whether it is a wind or a stringed instrument. But unless they present a distinction within the sounds, how will it be known which is from the pipe and which is from the string? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Even things without life that give sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction of sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped? |
and saying, ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we lamented to you, and you did not beat the breast.’
“They are like children sitting in the market-place and calling to each other, saying, ‘We played the flute for you and you did not dance, we lamented for you and you did not weep.’
If I speak with the tongues of men and of messengers, but do not have love, I have become as sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.
But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you unless I speak to you, either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by teaching?
For indeed, if the trumpet makes an indistinct sound, who shall prepare himself for battle?
“After that go to the hill of Elohim where the Philistine watch-post is. And it shall be, when you have come there to the city, that you shall meet a group of prophets coming down from the high place with a stringed instrument, and a tambourine, and a flute, and a lyre before them, and they are prophesying.