1 Corinthians 14:8 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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

And when ye go to war in your land against the adversary that oppresseth you, then ye shall sound an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies.

Jeremiah 4:19

My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart is disquieted in me; I cannot hold my peace; because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

Amos 3:6

Shall the trumpet be blown in a city, and the people not be afraid? shalt evil befall a city, and the LORD hath not done it?

Joel 2:1

Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain; let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand;

Isaiah 27:13

And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great trumpet shall be blown; and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and they that were outcasts in the land of Egypt; and they shall worship the LORD in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

1 Corinthians 14:7

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?