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Lexham English Bible

1 Corinthians 14:18

I give thanks to God that I speak with tongues more than all of you,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Apostles;   Interpretation;   Language;   Preaching;   Tongues (the Gift);   The Topic Concordance - Prophecy and Prophets;   Tongues;   Understanding;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Child;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Worship of God;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Tongues, Gift of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Edification;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Corinthians, First Epistle to the;   Ethics;   Spiritual Gifts;   Tongues, Gift of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Edification;   Inspiration and Revelation;   Tongues Gift of;   Voice;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Edification;   Tongues, Gift of;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Synagogue;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I thank God that I speak in other tongues more than all of you;
King James Version (1611)
I thanke my God, I speake with tongues more then you all.
King James Version
I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all:
English Standard Version
I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you.
New American Standard Bible
I thank God, I speak in tongues more than you all;
New Century Version
I thank God that I speak in different kinds of languages more than all of you.
Amplified Bible
I thank God that I speak in [unknown] tongues more than all of you;
New American Standard Bible (1995)
I thank God, I speak in tongues more than you all;
Legacy Standard Bible
I thank God that I speak in tongues more than you all;
Berean Standard Bible
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.
Complete Jewish Bible
I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you,
Darby Translation
I thank God I speak in a tongue more than all of you:
Easy-to-Read Version
I thank God that my gift of speaking in different kinds of languages is greater than any of yours.
Geneva Bible (1587)
I thanke my God, I speake languages more then ye all.
George Lamsa Translation
I thank God, that I speak with tongues more than you all:
Good News Translation
I thank God that I speak in strange tongues much more than any of you.
Literal Translation
I thank my God that I speak more languages than all of you.
American Standard Version
I thank God, I speak with tongues more than you all:
Bible in Basic English
I give praise to God that I am able to make use of tongues more than you all:
Hebrew Names Version
I thank my God, I speak with other languages more than you all.
International Standard Version
I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you.
Etheridge Translation
I praise Aloha that more than all of you I speak with tongues;
Murdock Translation
I thank God, that I speak with tongues more than all of you.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
I thanke my God, I speake with tongues more the ye all.
English Revised Version
I thank God, I speak with tongues more than you all:
World English Bible
I thank my God, I speak with other languages more than you all.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
I thank God, that I speak with tongues more than you all.
Weymouth's New Testament
I speak in a tongue, thank God, more than all of you;
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Y thanke my God, for Y speke in the langage of alle you;
Update Bible Version
I thank God, I speak with tongues more than all of you:
Webster's Bible Translation
I thank my God, I speak in languages more than ye all:
New English Translation
I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you,
New King James Version
I thank my God I speak with tongues more than you all;
New Living Translation
I thank God that I speak in tongues more than any of you.
New Life Bible
I thank God that I speak in special sounds more than all of you.
New Revised Standard
I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I give thanks unto God! - More than ye all, am I speaking with tongues;
Douay-Rheims Bible
I thank my God I speak with all your tongues.
Revised Standard Version
I thank God that I speak in tongues more than you all;
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
I thanke my god I speake with toges moare then ye all.
Young's Literal Translation
I give thanks to my God -- more than you all with tongues speaking --
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I thanke my God, that I speake with tunges more then ye all.
Mace New Testament (1729)
I thank God, I speak more languages than you all:
THE MESSAGE
I'm grateful to God for the gift of praying in tongues that he gives us for praising him, which leads to wonderful intimacies we enjoy with him. I enter into this as much or more than any of you. But when I'm in a church assembled for worship, I'd rather say five words that everyone can understand and learn from than say ten thousand that sound to others like gibberish.
Simplified Cowboy Version
No one talks in tongues more than me.

Contextual Overview

15 Therefore what should I do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will also pray with my mind. I will sing praise with my spirit, but I will also sing praise with my mind. 16 For otherwise, if you praise in your spirit, how will the one who fills the place of the outsider say the "amen" at your thanksgiving, because he does not know what you are saying? 17 For indeed you are giving thanks well, but the other person is not edified. 18 I give thanks to God that I speak with tongues more than all of you, 19 but in the church I prefer to speak five words with my mind, in order that I may instruct other people, than ten thousand words in a tongue. 20 Brothers, do not become children in your understanding, but with respect to wickedness be as a child, and in your understanding be mature.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

1 Corinthians 1:4-6, 1 Corinthians 4:7

Reciprocal: Acts 2:4 - began 1 Corinthians 1:14 - thank 1 Corinthians 14:4 - edifieth the 2 Corinthians 12:12 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 14:10
Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits. And the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled and fell into them, but the rest fled to the mountains.
Genesis 14:22
And Abram said to the king of Sodom, "I have raised my hand to Yahweh, God Most High, Maker of heaven and earth,
Ruth 3:10
And he said, "You are blessed by Yahweh my daughter. You did better in this last kindness than the first by not going after young men, whether poor or rich.
2 Samuel 2:5
So David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh-Gilead and said to them, "May you be blessed by Yahweh because you did this loyal love with your lord, with Saul, and you buried him.
Psalms 7:17
I will thank Yahweh according to his righteousness, and I will sing praise to the name of Yahweh, the Most High.
Psalms 50:14
Offer to God a thank offering and pay your vows to the Most High.
Psalms 57:2
I will call to God Most High, to God who accomplishes things concerning me.
Psalms 76:2
His den has been in Salem, his lair in Zion.
Micah 6:6
With what shall I approach Yahweh, and bow down to God on high? Shall I approach him with burnt offerings, with bull calves a year old?
Acts 7:48
But the Most High does not live in houses made by human hands, just as the prophet says,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than you all. This the apostle says, to observe to them that he did not despise speaking with tongues: nor did he endeavour to beat them off, and dissuade them from desiring them, or envied their having them, because he was destitute of them himself; for he had this gift in a very eminent manner, and oftentimes made use of it, and was frequently under a necessity of so doing; he could speak with more tongues than any of those that had them, and spoke them oftener than they did; having occasion for them through his travelling into different countries, and preaching the Gospel to people of divers languages; and this he mentions also not in a boasting manner, but in great humility, giving thanks to God, and acknowledging him to be the author of this gift.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I thank my God - Paul here shows that he did not undervalue or despise the power of speaking foreign languages. It was with him a subject of thanksgiving that he could speak so many; but he felt that there were more valuable endowments than this; see the next verse.

With tongues more than ye all - I am able to speak more foreign languages than all of you. “How many” languages Paul could speak, he has no where told us. It is reasonable, however, to presume that he was able to speak the language of any people to whom God in his providence, and by his Spirit, called him to preach. He had been commissioned to preach to the “Gentiles,” and it is probable that he was able to speak the languages of all the nations among whom he ever traveled. There is no account of his being under a necessity of employing an interpreter wherever he preached.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 18. I speak with tongues more than ye all — He understood more languages than any of them did: and this was indispensably necessary, as he was the apostle of the Gentiles in general, and had to preach to different provinces where different dialects, if not languages, were used. In the Hebrew, Syriac, Greek, and Latin, he was undoubtedly well skilled from his education; and how many he might understand by miraculous gift we cannot tell. But, even literally understood, it is very probable that he knew more languages than any man in the Church of Corinth.


 
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