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1 Corinthians 14:18

I thank God that my gift of speaking in different kinds of languages is greater than any of yours.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Apostles;   Interpretation;   Language;   Preaching;   Tongues (the Gift);   The Topic Concordance - Prophecy and Prophets;   Tongues;   Understanding;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Child;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Worship of God;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Tongues, Gift of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Edification;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Corinthians, First Epistle to the;   Ethics;   Spiritual Gifts;   Tongues, Gift of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Edification;   Inspiration and Revelation;   Tongues Gift of;   Voice;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Edification;   Tongues, Gift of;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Synagogue;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I thank God that I speak in other tongues more than all of you;
King James Version (1611)
I thanke my God, I speake with tongues more then you all.
King James Version
I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all:
English Standard Version
I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you.
New American Standard Bible
I thank God, I speak in tongues more than you all;
New Century Version
I thank God that I speak in different kinds of languages more than all of you.
Amplified Bible
I thank God that I speak in [unknown] tongues more than all of you;
New American Standard Bible (1995)
I thank God, I speak in tongues more than you all;
Legacy Standard Bible
I thank God that I speak in tongues more than you all;
Berean Standard Bible
I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you.
Contemporary English Version
I thank God that I speak unknown languages more than any of you.
Complete Jewish Bible
I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you,
Darby Translation
I thank God I speak in a tongue more than all of you:
Geneva Bible (1587)
I thanke my God, I speake languages more then ye all.
George Lamsa Translation
I thank God, that I speak with tongues more than you all:
Good News Translation
I thank God that I speak in strange tongues much more than any of you.
Lexham English Bible
I give thanks to God that I speak with tongues more than all of you,
Literal Translation
I thank my God that I speak more languages than all of you.
American Standard Version
I thank God, I speak with tongues more than you all:
Bible in Basic English
I give praise to God that I am able to make use of tongues more than you all:
Hebrew Names Version
I thank my God, I speak with other languages more than you all.
International Standard Version
I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you.
Etheridge Translation
I praise Aloha that more than all of you I speak with tongues;
Murdock Translation
I thank God, that I speak with tongues more than all of you.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
I thanke my God, I speake with tongues more the ye all.
English Revised Version
I thank God, I speak with tongues more than you all:
World English Bible
I thank my God, I speak with other languages more than you all.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
I thank God, that I speak with tongues more than you all.
Weymouth's New Testament
I speak in a tongue, thank God, more than all of you;
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Y thanke my God, for Y speke in the langage of alle you;
Update Bible Version
I thank God, I speak with tongues more than all of you:
Webster's Bible Translation
I thank my God, I speak in languages more than ye all:
New English Translation
I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you,
New King James Version
I thank my God I speak with tongues more than you all;
New Living Translation
I thank God that I speak in tongues more than any of you.
New Life Bible
I thank God that I speak in special sounds more than all of you.
New Revised Standard
I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I give thanks unto God! - More than ye all, am I speaking with tongues;
Douay-Rheims Bible
I thank my God I speak with all your tongues.
Revised Standard Version
I thank God that I speak in tongues more than you all;
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
I thanke my god I speake with toges moare then ye all.
Young's Literal Translation
I give thanks to my God -- more than you all with tongues speaking --
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I thanke my God, that I speake with tunges more then ye all.
Mace New Testament (1729)
I thank God, I speak more languages than you all:
THE MESSAGE
I'm grateful to God for the gift of praying in tongues that he gives us for praising him, which leads to wonderful intimacies we enjoy with him. I enter into this as much or more than any of you. But when I'm in a church assembled for worship, I'd rather say five words that everyone can understand and learn from than say ten thousand that sound to others like gibberish.
Simplified Cowboy Version
No one talks in tongues more than me.

Contextual Overview

15 So what should I do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will also pray with my mind. I will sing with my spirit, but I will also sing with my mind. 16 You might be praising God with your spirit. But someone there without understanding cannot say "Amen" to your prayer of thanks, because they don't know what you are saying. 17 You may be thanking God in a good way, but others are not helped. 18 I thank God that my gift of speaking in different kinds of languages is greater than any of yours. 19 But in the church meetings I would rather speak five words that I understand than thousands of words in a different language. I would rather speak with my understanding, so that I can teach others. 20 Brothers and sisters, don't think like children. In evil things be like babies, but in your thinking you should be like full-grown adults.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

1 Corinthians 1:4-6, 1 Corinthians 4:7

Reciprocal: Acts 2:4 - began 1 Corinthians 1:14 - thank 1 Corinthians 14:4 - edifieth the 2 Corinthians 12:12 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 14:10
There were many holes filled with tar in the Valley of Siddim. When the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah and their armies ran away, some of the soldiers fell into these holes, but the others ran away to the mountains.
Genesis 14:22
But Abram said to the king of Sodom, "I promise to the Lord , the God Most High, the one who made heaven and earth.
Ruth 3:10
Then Boaz said, "May the Lord bless you, young woman. You have been very kind to me. Your kindness to me is greater than the kindness you showed to Naomi in the beginning. You could have looked for a young man to marry, rich or poor. But you did not.
2 Samuel 2:5
David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh Gilead. These messengers told the men in Jabesh: "The Lord bless you, because you have shown kindness to your lord Saul by burying him.
Psalms 7:17
I praise the Lord because he is good. I praise the name of the Lord Most High.
Psalms 50:14
You made promises to God Most High, so give him what you promised. Bring your sacrifices and thank offerings.
Psalms 57:2
I pray to God Most High for help, and he takes care of me completely!
Psalms 76:2
His Temple is in Salem. His house is on Mount Zion.
Micah 6:6
What must I bring when I come to meet with the Lord ? What must I do when I bow down to God above? Should I come to him with burnt offerings and a year-old calf?
Acts 7:48
"But the Most High God does not live in houses built by human hands. This is what the prophet writes:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than you all. This the apostle says, to observe to them that he did not despise speaking with tongues: nor did he endeavour to beat them off, and dissuade them from desiring them, or envied their having them, because he was destitute of them himself; for he had this gift in a very eminent manner, and oftentimes made use of it, and was frequently under a necessity of so doing; he could speak with more tongues than any of those that had them, and spoke them oftener than they did; having occasion for them through his travelling into different countries, and preaching the Gospel to people of divers languages; and this he mentions also not in a boasting manner, but in great humility, giving thanks to God, and acknowledging him to be the author of this gift.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I thank my God - Paul here shows that he did not undervalue or despise the power of speaking foreign languages. It was with him a subject of thanksgiving that he could speak so many; but he felt that there were more valuable endowments than this; see the next verse.

With tongues more than ye all - I am able to speak more foreign languages than all of you. “How many” languages Paul could speak, he has no where told us. It is reasonable, however, to presume that he was able to speak the language of any people to whom God in his providence, and by his Spirit, called him to preach. He had been commissioned to preach to the “Gentiles,” and it is probable that he was able to speak the languages of all the nations among whom he ever traveled. There is no account of his being under a necessity of employing an interpreter wherever he preached.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 18. I speak with tongues more than ye all — He understood more languages than any of them did: and this was indispensably necessary, as he was the apostle of the Gentiles in general, and had to preach to different provinces where different dialects, if not languages, were used. In the Hebrew, Syriac, Greek, and Latin, he was undoubtedly well skilled from his education; and how many he might understand by miraculous gift we cannot tell. But, even literally understood, it is very probable that he knew more languages than any man in the Church of Corinth.


 
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