1 Corinthians 14:7 - The Scriptures 2009

⁷ 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?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ 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

⁷ 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)

⁷ 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

⁷ 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

⁷ 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

⁷ 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?

1 Corinthians 14:7 Cross References

Matthew 11:17

and saying, ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we lamented to you, and you did not beat the breast.’

Luke 7:32

“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.’

1 Corinthians 13:1

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.

1 Corinthians 14:6

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?

1 Corinthians 14:8

For indeed, if the trumpet makes an indistinct sound, who shall prepare himself for battle?

1 Samuel 10:5

“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.