1 Corinthians 14:18

Weymouth NT

I speak in a tongue, thank God, more than all of you;

Cross References

1 Corinthians 14:17

Rightly enough you are giving thanks, and yet your neighbor is not benefited.

1 Corinthians 14:19

but in the Church I would rather speak five words with my understanding –so as to instruct others also– than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.

1 Corinthians 14:2

For he who speaks in an unknown tongue is not speaking to men, but to God; for no one understands him. Yet in the Spirit he is speaking secret truths.

1 Corinthians 14:4

He who speaks in an unknown tongue does good to himself, but he who prophesies does good to the Church.

1 Corinthians 14:5

I should be right glad were you all to speak in `tongues,' but yet more glad were you all to prophesy. And, in fact, the man who prophesies is superior to him who speaks in `tongues,' except when the latter can interpret in order that the Church may get a blessing.

1 Corinthians 4:7

Why, who gives you your superiority, my brother? Or what have you that you did not receive? And if you really did receive it, why boast as if this were not so?