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1 Corinthians 14:20
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18 I thank my God I speak with tongues more than you all;
19 yet in the church I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I may teach others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue.

Tongues a Sign to Unbelievers

20 Brethren, ado not be children in understanding; however, in malice bbe babes, but in understanding be mature.  
21 aIn the law it is written:
b“With men of other tongues and other lips
I will speak to this people;
And yet, for all that, they will not hear Me,” says the Lord.  
22 Therefore tongues are for a asign, not to those who believe but to unbelievers; but prophesying is not for unbelievers but for those who believe.  
23 Therefore if the whole church comes together in one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those who are uninformed or unbelievers, awill they not say that you are1 out of your mind?  
24 But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or an uninformed person comes in, he is convinced by all, he is convicted by all.
25 1And thus the secrets of his heart are revealed; and so, falling down on his face, he will worship God and report athat God is truly among you.  
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1 Corinthians 14:20

Be not children in mind (mh paidia ginesqe taiv fresin). "Cease becoming children in your intellects," as some of them evidently were. Cf. Hebrews 5:11-14 for a like complaint of intellectual dulness for being old babies.

In malice be ye babes (th kakiai nhpiazete).

Be men (teleioi ginesqe). Keep on becoming adults in your minds. A noble and a needed command, pertinent today.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 1 Corinthians 14:20:

Luke 16:8
1 Corinthians 2:6
1 Corinthians 3:1
Galatians 4:1

 

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