19 yet in the church I would rather speak five words(A) with my understanding, in order to teach others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue.

20 Brothers and sisters, don’t be childish in your thinking, but be infants in regard to evil and adult in your thinking.(B) 21 It is written in the law,

I will speak to this people
by people of other tongues
and by the lips of foreigners,
and even then, they will not listen to me,[a](C)

says the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. 14:21 Is 28:11–12

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