1 Corinthians 14:18

Tyndale New Testament

I thanke my god I speake with toges moare then ye all.

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.

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.

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;

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 What is it then? I will praye with the sprete ad will praye wt the mynde also. I will singe with the sprete and will singe with the mynde also. ¹⁶ For els when thou blessest with ye sprete how shall he that occupieth the roume of the vnlearned saye amen at thy gevinge of thankes seynge he vnderstondeth not what thou sayest ¹⁷ Thou verely gevest thankes well but the other is not edyfied. ¹⁸ I thanke my god I speake with toges moare then ye all. ¹⁹ Yet had I lever in ye cogregacio to speake five wordes with my mynde to ye informacio of other rather then ten thousande wordes wt the tonge. ²⁰ Brethre be not chyldre in witte. How be it as cocerninge maliciousnes be chyldre: but in witte be perfet.

Bible Verse Review
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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

Acts 7:48
How be it he that is hyest of all dwelleth not in teple made with hondes as saith the Prophete:

Acts 16:17
The same folowed Paul and vs and cryed sayinge: these men are the servauntes of the most hye God which shewe vnto vs the waye of salvacion.

Galatians 6:10
Whill we have therfore tyme let vs do good vnto all men and specially vnto them which are of the housholde of fayth.

Hebrews 5:6
As he also in another place speaketh: Thou arte a prest for ever after the order of Melchisedech.

Hebrews 5:10
and is called of God an hye prest after the order of Melchisedech.

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.