1 Corinthians 14:15-25 (English Standard Version)
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What am I to do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will pray with my mind also; 1I will sing praise with my spirit, but I will 2sing with my mind also.
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Otherwise, if you give thanks with your spirit, how can anyone in the position of an outsidera say 3"Amen" to 4your thanksgiving when he does not know what you are saying?
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For you may be giving thanks well enough, but the other person is not being built up.
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I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you.
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Nevertheless, in church I would rather speak five words with my mind in order to instruct others, than ten thousand words in a tongue.
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Brothers, 5do not be children in your thinking. 6Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be 7mature.
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8In the Law it is written, 9"By people of strange tongues and by the lips of foreigners will I speak to this people, and even then they will not listen to me, says the Lord."
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Thus tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers, while prophecy is a signb not for unbelievers but for believers.
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If, therefore, the whole church comes together and all speak in tongues, and outsiders or unbelievers enter, 10will they not say that you are out of your minds?
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But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or outsider enters, he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all,
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11the secrets of his heart are disclosed, and so, 12falling on his face, he will worship God and 13declare that God is really among you.
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