1 Corinthians 14:7

Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

As inanimate things giving a voice, whether pipe or harp, if it give not a distinction to sounds, how shall the piping or harping be known?

Cross References

1 Corinthians 14:8

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

1 Corinthians 13:1

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I have been the brass of echoes, and the shouting cymbal.

Luke 7:32

They are like children sitting in the market-place, and calling to one another, and saying, We played the flute to you, and ye danced not; we lamented to you, and ye wept not.

Matthew 11:17

And saying, We played the flute to you, and ye moved not; we lamented to you and ye lamented not.

1 Samuel 10:5

After this thou shalt come to the hill of God, where there Philisteim standing: and it will be when thou comest there to the city, and thou didst light upon a band of prophets coming down out of Bamah, and before them a lyre, and a drum, and a pipe, and a harp; and they prophesying.

1 Corinthians 14:6

And now, brethren, if I come to you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I speak to you either in revelation, or in knowledge, or in prophecy, or in teaching?