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1 Corinthians 14:18

I thank God that I speak in special sounds more than all of you.

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:
Easy-to-Read Version
I thank God that my gift of speaking in different kinds of languages is greater than any of yours.
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 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 What should I do? I will pray with my spirit and I will pray with my mind also. I will sing with my spirit and I will sing with my mind also. 16 If you honor and give thanks to God with your spirit in sounds nobody understands, how can others honor and give thanks also if they do not know what you are saying? 17 You are honoring and giving thanks to God, but it is not helping other people. 18 I thank God that I speak in special sounds more than all of you. 19 But in a meeting of the church, it is better if I say five words that others can understand and be helped by than 10,000 words in special sounds. 20 Christian brothers, do not be like children in your thinking. Be full-grown, but be like children in not knowing how to sin.

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
Now the Siddim valley was full of deep holes with tar. The kings of Sodom and Gomorrah turned and ran, and some fell there. But the others ran away into the hill country.
Genesis 14:22
But Abram said to the king of Sodom, "I have promised the Lord God Most High, Maker of heaven and earth,
Ruth 3:10
And Boaz said, "May the Lord bring good to you, my daughter. You have shown your last kindness to be better than your first by not going after young men, with or without riches.
2 Samuel 2:5
So David sent men with news to the men of Jabesh-gilead, saying, "May the Lord bring good to you. Because you have shown kindness to your king Saul, and have buried him.
Psalms 7:17
I will give thanks to the Lord because He is right and good. I will sing praise to the name of the Lord Most High.
Psalms 50:14
Give a gift of thanks on the altar to God. And pay your promises to the Most High.
Psalms 57:2
I will cry to God Most High, to God Who finishes all things for me.
Psalms 76:2
His holy tent of worship is in Salem. He lives in Zion.
Micah 6:6
What should I bring to the Lord when I bow down before the God on high? Should I come to Him with burnt gifts, with calves a year old?
Acts 7:48
But the Most High does not live in buildings made by hands. The early preacher said,

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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