NEW TESTAMENT

1 Corinthians 14:19

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However, in the assembly I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in another language.

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Verse 19. But in the Church. The apostle here condemns the vanity of the Corinthians, who made a parade of their gift of tongues. Calmet.

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