1 Corinthians 14:10

Bible in Basic English

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

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
There are doubtless many different kinds of languages in the world, none is without meaning.

King James Version (1611)
There are, it may bee, so many kindes of voices in the world, and none of them are without signification.

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

English Standard Version
There are doubtless many different languages in the world, and none is without meaning,

New American Standard Bible
There are, perhaps, a great many kinds of languages in the world, and none is incapable of meaning.

New Century Version
It may be true that there are all kinds of sounds in the world, and none is without meaning.

Amplified Bible
There are, I suppose, a great many kinds of languages in the world [unknown to us], and none is lacking in meaning.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
There are, perhaps, a great many kinds of languages in the world, and no kind is without meaning.

Legacy Standard Bible
There are, perhaps, a great many kinds of sounds in the world, and none is without meaning.

Berean Standard Bible
Assuredly, there are many different languages in the world, yet none of them is without meaning.

Contemporary English Version
There are many different languages in this world, and all of them make sense.

Complete Jewish Bible
There are undoubtedly all kinds of sounds in the world, and none is altogether meaningless;

Darby Translation
There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of undistinguishable sound.

Easy-to-Read Version
It is true that there are many different languages in the world, and they all have meaning.

Geneva Bible (1587)
There are so many kindes of voyces (as it commeth to passe) in the world, and none of them is dumme.

George Lamsa Translation
For, behold, there are many kinds of speech in the world, yet none of them are without expression.

Good News Translation
There are many different languages in the world, yet none of them is without meaning.

Lexham English Bible
There are probably so many kinds of languages in the world, and none without meaning.

Literal Translation
So it may be many kinds of sounds are in the world, and not one is without distinct sound.

American Standard Version
There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and no kind is without signification.

Hebrew Names Version
There are, it may be, so many kinds of sounds in the world, and none of them is without meaning.

International Standard Version
There are, I suppose, many different languagessounds">[fn] in the world, yet none of them is without meaning.

Etheridge Translation
10 For, behold, there are many kinds of tongues in the world, and not one of them hath not signification; [fn]

Murdock Translation
For lo, there are many kinds of tongues in the world; and there is not one of them without meaning.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
There are so many kyndes of voyces, [as it commeth to passe] in the worlde, and none of them are without signification.

English Revised Version
There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and no [kind] is without signification.

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

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Let there be ever so many kinds of languages in the world, and none of them without signification:

Weymouth's New Testament
There are, we will suppose, a great number of languages in the world, and no creature is without a language.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
There ben many kyndis of langagis in this world, and no thing is with outen vois.

Update Bible Version
There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and no [kind] is without significance.

Webster's Bible Translation
There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them [is] without signification.

New English Translation
There are probably many kinds of languages in the world, and none is without meaning.

New King James Version
There are, it may be, so many kinds of languages in the world, and none of them is without significance.

New Living Translation
There are many different languages in the world, and every language has meaning.

New Life Bible
There are many languages in the world. All of them have meaning to the people who understand them.

New Revised Standard
There are doubtless many different kinds of sounds in the world, and nothing is without sound.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
There may happen to be so many kinds of languages in the world, and, not one, unspoken: -

Douay-Rheims Bible
There are, for example, so many kinds of tongues in this world: and none is without voice.

Revised Standard Version
There are doubtless many different languages in the world, and none is without meaning;

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Many kyndes of voyces are in the worlde and none of them are with out signification.

Young's Literal Translation
There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is unmeaning,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
So many kyndes of voyces are in the worlde, and none of them is without significacion.

Mace New Testament (1729)
there are, it may be, as many different languages in the world as there are people, and none of them without signification.

Simplified Cowboy Version
There's a bunch of different languages out there, and every one of them has meaning.

Contextual Overview

⁶ But, now, my brothers, if I come to you using tongues, what profit will it be to you, if I do not give you a revelation, or knowledge, or the word of the prophet, or teaching? ⁷ Even things without life, having a voice, such as a music-pipe or other instrument, if they do not give out different sounds, who may be certain what is being played? ⁸ For if the war-horn gives out an uncertain note, who will get ready for the fight? ⁹ So 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. ¹⁰ There are, it may be, a number of different voices in the world, and no voice is without sense. ¹¹ But 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. ¹² So if you are desiring the things which the Spirit gives, let your minds be turned first to the things which are for the good of the church. ¹³ For this reason, let the man who has the power of using tongues make request that he may, at the same time, be able to give the sense. ¹⁴ For if I make use of tongues in my prayers, my spirit makes the prayer, but not my mind.

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Cross-References

Genesis 11:3
And they said one to another, Come, let us make bricks, burning them well. And they had bricks for stone, putting them together with sticky earth.

Genesis 19:17
And when they had put them out, he said, Go for your life, without looking back or waiting in the lowland; go quickly to the mountain or you will come to destruction.

Genesis 19:30
Then Lot went up out of Zoar to the mountain, and was living there with his two daughters, for fear kept him from living in Zoar: and he and his daughters made their living-place in a hole in the rock.

Joshua 8:24
Then, after the destruction of all the people of Ai in the field and in the waste land where they went after them, and when all the people had been put to death without mercy, all Israel went back to Ai, and put to death all who were in it without mercy.

Psalms 83:10
Who came to destruction at En-dor; their bodies became dust and waste.

Isaiah 24:18
And it will be that he who goes in flight from the sound of fear will be overtaken by death; and he who gets free from death will be taken in the net: for the windows on high are open, and the bases of the earth are shaking.

Jeremiah 48:44
He who goes in flight from the fear will be overtaken by death; and he who gets free from death will be taken in the net: for I will make this come on Moab, even the year of their punishment, says the Lord.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices,.... לשנא, "tongues", or "languages", as the Syriac version renders it; that is, as many as there are nations in the world; there may be seventy of them, as the Jews say there were at the confusion of languages at Babel; there may be more or less:

and none of them is without signification: every language, and every word in a language, has a meaning in it, an idea annexed to it, which it conveys to him that understands it, and that cannot be done without a voice ordinarily speaking.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

There are it may be ... - There has been considerable variety in the interpertation of this expression. Rosenmuller renders it, “for the sake of example.” Grotius supposes that Paul meant to indicate that there were, perhaps, or might be, as many languages as the Jews supposed, to wit, seventy. Beza and others suppose it means, that there may he as many languages as there are nations of people. Bloomfield renders it, “Let there he as many kinds of languages as you choose.” Macknight, “There are, no doubt, as many kinds of languages in the world as ye speak.” Robinson (Lexicon) renders it, “If so happen, it may be; perchance, perhaps;” and says the phrase is equivalent to “for example,” The sense is, “There are perhaps, or for example, very many kinds of voices in the world; and all are significant. None are used by those who speak them without meaning; none speak them without designing to convey some intelligible idea to their hearers.” The “argument” is, that as “all” the languages that are in the world, however numerous they are, are for “utility,” and as none are used for the sake of mere display, so it should be with those who had the power of speaking them in the Christian church. They should speak them only when and where they would be understood.

Voices - Languages.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Corinthians 14:10. There are, it may be — ει τυχοι, For example.

So many kinds of voices — So many different languages, each of which has its distinct articulation, pronunciation, emphasis, and meaning; or there may be so many different nations, each possessing a different language, &c.