1 Corinthians 14:10

Myles Coverdale Bible

So many kyndes of voyces are in the worlde, and none of them is without significacion.

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
There are doubtless many different languages in the world, and none is without meaning,

Geneva Bible (1587)
There are so many kindes of voyces (as it commeth to passe) in the world, and none of them is dumme.

Christian Standard Bible®
There are doubtless many different kinds of languages in the world, none is without meaning.

Hebrew Names Version
There are, it may be, so many kinds of sounds in the world, and none of them is without meaning.

Darby Translation
There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of undistinguishable sound.

Easy-to-Read Version
It is true that there are many different languages in the world, and they all have meaning.

Amplified Bible
There are, I suppose, a great many kinds of languages in the world [unknown to us], and none is lacking in meaning.

American Standard Version
There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and no kind is without signification.

Berean Standard Bible
Assuredly, there are many different languages in the world, yet none of them is without meaning.

Contemporary English Version
There are many different languages in this world, and all of them make sense.

Complete Jewish Bible
There are undoubtedly all kinds of sounds in the world, and none is altogether meaningless;

International Standard Version
There are, I suppose, many different languagessounds">[fn] in the world, yet none of them is without meaning.

Etheridge Translation
10 For, behold, there are many kinds of tongues in the world, and not one of them hath not signification; [fn]

Murdock Translation
For lo, there are many kinds of tongues in the world; and there is not one of them without meaning.

King James Version (1611)
There are, it may bee, so many kindes of voices in the world, and none of them are without signification.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
There are so many kyndes of voyces, [as it commeth to passe] in the worlde, and none of them are without signification.

English Revised Version
There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and no [kind] is without signification.

King James Version
There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification.

Lexham English Bible
There are probably so many kinds of languages in the world, and none without meaning.

Literal Translation
So it may be many kinds of sounds are in the world, and not one is without distinct sound.

New Century Version
It may be true that there are all kinds of sounds in the world, and none is without meaning.

New English Translation
There are probably many kinds of languages in the world, and none is without meaning.

New King James Version
There are, it may be, so many kinds of languages in the world, and none of them is without significance.

New Living Translation
There are many different languages in the world, and every language has meaning.

New Revised Standard
There are doubtless many different kinds of sounds in the world, and nothing is without sound.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
There may happen to be so many kinds of languages in the world, and, not one, unspoken: -

Douay-Rheims Bible
There are, for example, so many kinds of tongues in this world: and none is without voice.

George Lamsa Translation
For, behold, there are many kinds of speech in the world, yet none of them are without expression.

Good News Translation
There are many different languages in the world, yet none of them is without meaning.

World English Bible
There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without meaning.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Let there be ever so many kinds of languages in the world, and none of them without signification:

Weymouth's New Testament
There are, we will suppose, a great number of languages in the world, and no creature is without a language.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
There ben many kyndis of langagis in this world, and no thing is with outen vois.

Webster's Bible Translation
There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them [is] without signification.

Revised Standard Version
There are doubtless many different languages in the world, and none is without meaning;

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Many kyndes of voyces are in the worlde and none of them are with out signification.

Update Bible Version
There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and no [kind] is without significance.

Young's Literal Translation
There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is unmeaning,

Bible in Basic English
There are, it may be, a number of different voices in the world, and no voice is without sense.

New American Standard Bible
There are, perhaps, a great many kinds of languages in the world, and none is incapable of meaning.

Mace New Testament (1729)
there are, it may be, as many different languages in the world as there are people, and none of them without signification.

New Life Bible
There are many languages in the world. All of them have meaning to the people who understand them.

Simplified Cowboy Version
There's a bunch of different languages out there, and every one of them has meaning.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
There are, perhaps, a great many kinds of languages in the world, and no kind is without meaning.

Legacy Standard Bible
There are, perhaps, a great many kinds of sounds in the world, and none is without meaning.

Contextual Overview

⁶ But now brethren yf I come vnto you, and speake with tunges, what shal I profet you, excepte I speake vnto you ether by reuelacion or by knowlege, or by prophecienge, or by doctryne? ⁷ Likewyse is it also in ye thinges that geue sounde, and yet lyue not: whether it be a pype or an harpe, excepte they geue distyncte soundes from them, how shal it be knowne what is pyped or harped? ⁸ And yf the trope geue an vncertayne sounde, who wil prepare himselfe to the battayll? ⁹ Euen so ye likewyse, whan ye speake with tunges, excepte ye speake playne wordes, how shal it be knowne what is spoke? for ye shal but speake in ye ayre. ¹⁰ So many kyndes of voyces are in the worlde, and none of them is without significacion. ¹¹ Yf I knowe not now what ye voyce meaneth, I shalbe an aleaunt vnto him that speaketh: & he that speaketh, shalbe an aleaut vnto me. ¹² Eue so ye (for so moch as ye couet spirituall giftes (seke yt ye maye haue plentye to the edifienge of the congregacion. ¹³ Wherfore let him that speaketh wt tunges, praye, that he maye interprete also. ¹⁴ Yf I praye with tunges, my sprete prayeth, but my vnderstodinge bryngeth no man frute.

Bible Verse Review
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Cross-References

Genesis 11:3
& saide one to another: Come on, let vs make bryck & burne it. And they toke bryck for stone, & slyme for morter,

Genesis 19:17
And whe they had brought him out, they sayde: Saue thy soule, and loke not behynde the, nether stonde thou in all this countre: Saue thy self vpon the mountayne, that thou perish not.

Genesis 19:30
And Lot departed out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountaynes with both his daughters (for he was afrayed to tary at Zoar) and so remayned he in a caue wt both his daughters.

Joshua 8:24
And wha Israel had slayne all the inhabiters of Hai, which had folowed vpon them in the felde and in the wildernesse: and whan they were all fallen thorow the edge of the swerde, tyll they were destroied, the turned all Israel vnto Hai, and smote it with the edge of ye swerde.

Psalms 83:10
Which perished at Endor, & became as the doge of ye earth.

Isaiah 24:18
Who so escapeth the terrible crie, shal fall in to the pyt. And yf he come out of the pyt, he shalbe take with the snare. For the wyndowes aboue shalbe opened, and the foundacion of the earth shal moue.

Jeremiah 48:44
Who so escapeth the feare, shal fall in the pyt: and who so getteth out off the pyt, shall be taken in the snare. For I will bringe a yeare off visitacion vpon Moab, saieth the LORDE.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices,.... לשנא, "tongues", or "languages", as the Syriac version renders it; that is, as many as there are nations in the world; there may be seventy of them, as the Jews say there were at the confusion of languages at Babel; there may be more or less:

and none of them is without signification: every language, and every word in a language, has a meaning in it, an idea annexed to it, which it conveys to him that understands it, and that cannot be done without a voice ordinarily speaking.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

There are it may be ... - There has been considerable variety in the interpertation of this expression. Rosenmuller renders it, “for the sake of example.” Grotius supposes that Paul meant to indicate that there were, perhaps, or might be, as many languages as the Jews supposed, to wit, seventy. Beza and others suppose it means, that there may he as many languages as there are nations of people. Bloomfield renders it, “Let there he as many kinds of languages as you choose.” Macknight, “There are, no doubt, as many kinds of languages in the world as ye speak.” Robinson (Lexicon) renders it, “If so happen, it may be; perchance, perhaps;” and says the phrase is equivalent to “for example,” The sense is, “There are perhaps, or for example, very many kinds of voices in the world; and all are significant. None are used by those who speak them without meaning; none speak them without designing to convey some intelligible idea to their hearers.” The “argument” is, that as “all” the languages that are in the world, however numerous they are, are for “utility,” and as none are used for the sake of mere display, so it should be with those who had the power of speaking them in the Christian church. They should speak them only when and where they would be understood.

Voices - Languages.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Corinthians 14:10. There are, it may be — ει τυχοι, For example.

So many kinds of voices — So many different languages, each of which has its distinct articulation, pronunciation, emphasis, and meaning; or there may be so many different nations, each possessing a different language, &c.