1 Corinthians 14:10

There are many different languages in the world, and all of them convey meaning [LIT] to the people who know those languages.

Translation for Translators

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

9It is the same with you! If you do not speak words that other people can understand, ◄no one will know what you are saying./how will anyone know what you are saying?► [RHQ] It will be as though you are just speaking to the air!

11But if we do not understand the language that others are speaking, it will be as though they are foreigners to us, and we will be foreigners to them.

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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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