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Myles Coverdale Bible

1 Corinthians 14:18

I thanke my God, that I speake with tunges more then ye all.

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

Simplified Cowboy Version
No one talks in tongues more than me.
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;
Bible in Basic English
I give praise to God that I am able to make use of tongues more than you all:
Darby Translation
I thank God I speak in a tongue more than all of you:
Christian Standard Bible®
I thank God that I speak in other languages more than all of you;
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;
King James Version (1611)
I thanke my God, I speake with tongues more then you all.
Literal Translation
I thank my God that I speak more languages than all of you.
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.
Amplified Bible
I thank God that I speak in [unknown] tongues more than all of you;
American Standard Version
I thank God, I speak with tongues more than you all:
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.
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:
Young's Literal Translation
I give thanks to my God -- more than you all with tongues speaking --
New Century Version
I thank God that I speak in different kinds of languages more than all of you.
New English Translation
I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you,
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,
English Standard Version
I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you.
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:
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.
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.
English Revised Version
I thank God, I speak with tongues more than you all:
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.
King James Version
I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all:
Lexham English Bible
I give thanks to 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.
Easy-to-Read Version
I thank God that my gift of speaking in different kinds of languages is greater than any of yours.
New American Standard Bible
I thank God, I speak in tongues more than you all;
Good News Translation
I thank God that I speak in strange tongues much more than any of you.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Y thanke my God, for Y speke in the langage of alle you;

Contextual Overview

15 How shal it be then? Namely thus: I wil praye with ye sprete, and wil praye with the vnderstodinge also: I wil synge psalmes in the sprete, and wil synge spalmes with ye vnderstondinge also. 16 But whan thou geuest thankes with ye sprete, how shal he that occupieth the rowme of the vnlearned, saye Ame at thy geuynge of thankes, seynge he knoweth not what thou sayest? 17 Thou geuest well thankes, but the other is not edifyed. 18 I thanke my God, that I speake with tunges more then ye all. 19 Yet had I leuer in the cogregacion to speake fyue wordes with my vnderstondinge yt I maye enfourme other also, rather then ten thousande wordes with tunges. 20 Brethren be not children in vnderstondinge, howbeit as concerninge maliciousnes be childre, but in vnderstondinge be parfecte.

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
And yt brode valley had many slyme pyttes. But the kynge of Sodoma and Gomorra were put to flight, & fell there, & the residue fled vnto ye mountaynes.
Genesis 14:22
But Abram sayde vnto the kinge of Sodome: I lift vp my honde vnto the LORDE the most hye God, possessor of heauen and earth,
Ruth 3:10
He sayde: The LORDES blessinge haue thou my doughter. Thou hast done a better mercy here after then before, yt thou art not gone after yonge men, nether riche ner poore.
2 Samuel 2:5
he sent messaungers vnto them, sayenge: Blessed be ye of the LORDE, that ye haue done soch mercy vpon youre lorde Saul, and haue buried him.
Psalms 7:17
As for me, I will geue thankes vnto the LORDE for his rightuousnes sake, and wil prayse the name of the LORDE the most hyest.
Psalms 50:14
Offre vnto God prayse and thankesgeuynge, and paye thy vowes vnto the most hyest.
Psalms 57:2
I call vnto God ye most hyest, eue ye God yt shal helpe me vp agayne.
Psalms 76:2
At Salem is his tabernacle, & his dwellinge in Sion.
Micah 6:6
What acceptable thynge shal I offre vnto the LORDE? shall I bowe mykne to the hye God? Shal I come before him wt brentofferinges, and with calues of a yeare olde?
Acts 7:48
Howbeit ye Hyest of all dwelleth not in temples that are made with handes: As he sayeth by the prophete:

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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