1 Corinthians 14:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ And if the bugle gives an indistinct sound, who will get ready for battle?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ And if the war bugle gives an uncertain (indistinct) call, who will prepare for battle?

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

⁸ And if a trumpet call is unrecognizable, then who will prepare for battle?

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ For example, if the trumpet made an uncertain sound, who would prepare himself for battle?

1 Corinthians 14:8 Cross References

Numbers 10:9

When you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets, so that you may be remembered before the Lord your God and be saved from your enemies.

Jeremiah 4:19

My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! Oh, the walls of my heart! My heart is beating wildly; I cannot keep silent, for I hear the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

Amos 3:6

Is a trumpet blown in a city, and the people are not afraid? Does disaster befall a city unless the Lord has done it?

Joel 2:1

Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound the alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the Lord is coming, it is near—

Isaiah 27:13

And on that day a great trumpet will be blown, and those who were lost in the land of Assyria and those who were driven out to the land of Egypt will come and worship the Lord on the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

1 Corinthians 14:7

It is the same way with lifeless instruments that produce sound, such as the flute or the harp. If they do not give distinct notes, how will what is being played on the flute or harp be recognized?