1 Corinthians 14:10

Wycliffe Bible

There ben many kyndis of langagis in this world, and no thing is with outen vois.

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.

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

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.

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, britheren, if Y come to you, and speke in langagis, what schal Y profite to you, but if Y speke to you ethir in reuelacioun, ethir in science, ethir in prophecie, ether in techyng? ⁷ For tho thingis that ben withouten soule, and yyueth voices, ethir pipe, ether harpe, but tho yyuen distinccioun of sownyngis, hou schal it be knowun that is sungun, ether that that is trumpid? ⁸ For if a trumpe yyue an vncerteyn soune, who schal make hym silf redi to batel? ⁹ So but ye yyuen an opyn word bi tunge, hou schal that that is seid be knowun? For ye schulen be spekynge in veyn. ¹⁰ There ben many kyndis of langagis in this world, and no thing is with outen vois. ¹¹ But if Y knowe not the vertu of a vois, Y schal be to hym, to whom Y schal speke, a barbarik; and he that spekith to me, schal be a barbarik. ¹² So ye, for ye ben loueris of spiritis, seke ye that ye be plenteuouse to edificacioun of the chirche. ¹³ And therfor he that spekith in langage, preie, that he expowne. ¹⁴ For if Y preye in tunge, my spirit preieth; myn vndurstondyng is with outen fruyt.

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Cross-References

Genesis 11:3
And oon seide to his neiybore, Come ye, and make we tiel stonys, and bake we tho with fier; and thei hadden tiel for stonus, and pitche for morter;

Genesis 19:17
And thei ledden out hym, and settiden with out the citee. There thei spaken to him, and seiden, Saue thou thi lijf; nyle thou biholde bihynde thi bac, nether stond thou in al the cuntre aboute, but make thee saaf in the hil; lest also thou perische togidere.

Genesis 19:30
And Loth stiede fro Segor, and dwellide in the hil, and hise twey douytris with him, for he dredde to dwelle in Segor; and he dwellide in a denne, he and his twey douytris with hym.

Joshua 8:24
Therfor, whanne alle men weren slayn, that pursueden Israel goynge to deseert, and felden bi swerd in the same place, the sones of Israel turneden ayen, and smytiden the citee.

Psalms 83:10
Thei perischiden in Endor; thei weren maad as a toord of erthe.

Isaiah 24:18
And it schal be, he that schal fle fro the face of ferdfulnesse, schal falle in to the diche; and he that schal delyuere hym silf fro the dich, schal be holdun of the snare; for whi the wyndows of hiye thingis ben openyd, and the foundementis of erthe schulen be schakun togidere.

Jeremiah 48:44
He that fleeth fro the face of drede, schal falle in to a diche; and thei that stien fro the dyche, schulen be takun with a snare. For Y schal brynge on Moab the yeer of the visitacioun of hem, seith 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.