The natives showed us unusual kindness. Since it had begun to rain and was cold, they kindled a fire and welcomed all of us around it.
1 Corinthians 14:11 - New Revised Standard Version If then I do not know the meaning of a sound, I will be a foreigner to the speaker and the speaker a foreigner to me. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But if I do not know the force and significance of the speech (language), I shall seem to be a foreigner to the one who speaks [to me], and the speaker who addresses [me] will seem a foreigner to me. American Standard Version (1901) If then I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be to him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh will be a barbarian unto me. Common English Bible So if I don’t know the meaning of the language, then I will be like a foreigner to those who speak it, and they will be like foreigners to me. Catholic Public Domain Version Therefore, if I do not understand the nature of the voice, then I shall be like a foreigner to the one with whom I am speaking; and he who is speaking will be like a foreigner to me. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If then I know not the power of the voice, I shall be to him to whom I speak a barbarian; and he that speaketh, a barbarian to me. |
The natives showed us unusual kindness. Since it had begun to rain and was cold, they kindled a fire and welcomed all of us around it.
When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “This man must be a murderer; though he has escaped from the sea, justice has not allowed him to live.”
I am a debtor both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish
There are doubtless many different kinds of sounds in the world, and nothing is without sound.
In the law it is written, “By people of strange tongues and by the lips of foreigners I will speak to this people; yet even then they will not listen to me,” says the Lord.
In that renewal there is no longer Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave and free; but Christ is all and in all!