pret, that the church may receive
edification.

(6)And now, brethren, if I come to you speaking with tongues, what
shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either in revelation,
or in knowledge, or in prophesying, or in teaching? (7)And things
without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, yet if they give no
distinction in the sounds, how shall that be known which is piped or
harped? (8)For if a trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare
himself for battle? (9)So also ye, if ye utter not by the tongue words
easily understood, how shall that be known which is spoken? For ye
will be speaking into the air.

(10)So many, it may be, are the kinds of speaking sounds in the world,
and none is without significance. (11)If then I know not the meaning
of the sound, I shall be to him that speaks a barbarian, and he that
speaks a barbarian to me. (12)So also ye, since ye are zealous of
spiritual gifts, seek that ye may abound in them to the edification of
the church.

(13)Wherefore let him that speaks in an unknown tongue pray that he
may interpret. (14)For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit
prays, but my understanding is unfruitful. (15)What then? I will pray
with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also; I will
sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
(16)Else, if thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that
occupies the place of the unlearned say the Amen at thy giving of
thanks, since he knows not what thou sayest? (17)For thou indeed
givest thanks well, but the other is not edified.

(18)I thank God, I speak with tongues more than ye all. (19)Yet in the
church I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I
may also instruct others, than ten thousand words in an unknown
tongue.

(20)Brethren, be not children in your understandings; but in malice be
as children, but in your understandings be men.

(21)In the law it is written:

For with men of other tongues, and with strange lips,
I will speak to this people;
And not even so will they hearken to me, saith the Lord.

(22)So that the tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe, but
to the unbelieving; but prophesying is not for the unbelieving, but
for those who believe.

(23)If therefore the whole church is come together into one place, and
all speak with tongues, and there come in those who are unlearned, or
unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad? (24)But