...well, but the other is not edified. 181 thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all : 19 Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my...also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue. 20 Brethren, be not children in understanding : howbeit, in malice be ye children, but in understanding...

...the Spirit and of power." — 1 Cor. ii. 4. " I had rather speak five words with my understanding, so that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue." — 1 Cor. xiv. 19. " A preacher is to fancy himself as in the room of the most unlearned man in the...

...profess, that' he had rather speak five words in the church with his understanding, that by his voice he might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.' 1 Therefore ' if any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be but by two, or at most by three, and...

...over all other Christian graces.2 Sec. 384. Church Should Not Be Addressed in Unknown Tongue. 19 Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my...also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue. 21 In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people...

...understand and even when you pray or sing, so they can say Amen to it. In verse 19 Paul says, "Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my...also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue." Verse 23 says, "If therefore the whole church be come together into one place. . . ." Verse 24 says,...

...understanding also. ' Verses 18 and 19 add: 'I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all: yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my...also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue. ' He preferred to speak five words with his understanding than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue,...

...the preaching of Christ, Paul needed the gift of languages ("tongues") more than most. Verse 19:"Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my...also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue." This is quite plain. A brief sentence about Christ in English will do me more good than hours of preaching...

...well, but the other is not edified. 18. I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all: 19. Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my...also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue. 20. Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding...

...because they can discern God's words in it. So that they can say, with Sts. Paul, Cyril and Methodius: "In the church I had rather speak five words with...also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue" (1 Corinthians 14:19). Notes INTRODUCTION 1 . There have been treatments of the Church Slavonic Bible...

...well, but the other is not edified. *^I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all; 19 Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my...also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue. ^Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding...