1 Corinthians 14:10

There are, it may be, a number of different voices in the world, and no voice is without sense.

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In The King James Version

There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification.

In Context

9So if you, in using a strange tongue, say words which have no sense, how will anyone take in what you are saying? for you will be talking to the air.

11But if the sense of the voice is not clear to me, I am like a man from a strange country to him who is talking, and he will be the same to me.

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Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 14:7-15

On Spiritual Gifts. ( a. d. 57.) 6 Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine? 7 And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped? 8 For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle? 9 So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words… Read the whole commentary →

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