1 Corinthians 14:19
World English Bible (WEB)
However, in the assembly I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in another language.
In context
17 For you most certainly give thanks well, but the other person is not built up.
18 I thank my God, I speak with other languages more than you all.
19 However, in the assembly I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in another language.
20 Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.
21 In the law it is written, “By men of strange languages and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people. They won’t even listen to me that way, says the Lord.”
1 Corinthians 14:19 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- However, in the assembly I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in another language.
- KJV King James Version
- Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- But in the church, I would rather speak five coherent words to instruct others than ten thousand words in a tongue.
- ASV American Standard Version
- howbeit in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- but in an assembly I wish to speak five words through my understanding, that others also I may instruct, rather than myriads of words in an [unknown] tongue.
- DBY Darby Translation
- but in [the] assembly I desire to speak five words with my understanding, that I may instruct others also, [rather] than ten thousand words in a tongue.
- WBS Webster Bible
- Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I may teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown language.