1 Corinthians 14:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁹ So with yourselves: If in a tongue you utter speech that is not intelligible, how will anyone know what is being said? For you will be speaking into the air.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ Just so it is with you; if you in the [unknown] tongue speak words that are not intelligible, how will anyone understand what you are saying? For you will be talking into empty space!

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ So also ye, unless ye utter by the tongue speech easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye will be speaking into the air.

Common English Bible

⁹ It’s the same way with you: If you don’t use language that is easy to understand when you speak in a tongue, then how will anyone understand what is said?

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ So it is with you also, for unless you utter with the tongue in plain speech, how will it be known what is said? For then you would be speaking into the air.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ So likewise you, except you utter by the tongue plain speech, how shall it be known what is said? For you shall be speaking into the air.

1 Corinthians 14:9 Cross References

1 Corinthians 14:10

There are doubtless many different kinds of sounds in the world, and nothing is without sound.

1 Corinthians 9:26

So I do not run aimlessly, nor do I box as though beating the air,