1 CORINTHIANS 14:19 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“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.”
But in the church I would rather speak five intelligible words to instruct others than ten thousand words in a tongue — the numerical contrast (5 vs. 10,000) is hyperbolic but decisive: five teaching-words accomplish ecclesial purpose; ten thousand ecstatic utterances do not. This is the chapter's thesis-statement: prophecy for others surpasses glossolalia for self.
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