◄ 1 Corinthians 14:18 ►
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Good News Translation
I thank God that I speak in strange tongues much more than any of you.

New Revised Standard Version
I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you;

Contemporary English Version
I thank God that I speak unknown languages more than any of you.

New American Bible
I give thanks to God that I speak in tongues more than any of you,

Douay-Rheims Bible
I thank my God I speak with all your tongues.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I thank my God I speak with all your tongues.

1 Corinthians 1:4-6 I give thanks to my God always for you, for the grace of God that is given you in Christ Jesus: . . .

1 Corinthians 4:7 For who distinguisheth thee? Or what hast thou that thou hast not received, and if thou hast received, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?

Context
Prophecy and Tongues
…17For thou indeed givest thanks well: but the other is not edified. 18I thank my God I speak with all your tongues. 19But in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that I may instruct others also: than ten thousand words in a tongue.…
Cross References
1 Corinthians 14:2
For he that speaketh in a tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man heareth. Yet by the Spirit he speaketh mysteries.

1 Corinthians 14:4
He that speaketh in a tongue edifieth himself: but he that prophesieth, edifieth the church.

1 Corinthians 14:5
And I would have you all to speak with tongues, but rather to prophesy. For greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues: unless perhaps he interpret, that the church may receive edification.

1 Corinthians 14:17
For thou indeed givest thanks well: but the other is not edified.

1 Corinthians 14:19
But in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that I may instruct others also: than ten thousand words in a tongue.

1 Corinthians 14:17
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