◄ 1 Corinthians 14:27 ►
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Good News Translation
If someone is going to speak in strange tongues, two or three at the most should speak, one after the other, and someone else must explain what is being said.

New Revised Standard Version
If anyone speaks in a tongue, let there be only two or at most three, and each in turn; and let one interpret.

Contemporary English Version
No more than two or three of you should speak unknown languages during the meeting. You must take turns, and someone should always be there to explain what you mean.

New American Bible
If anyone speaks in a tongue, let it be two or at most three, and each in turn, and one should interpret.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If any speak with a tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and in course: and let one interpret.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If any speak with a tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and in course: and let one interpret.

Context
Orderly Worship
26How is it then, brethren? When you come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a revelation, hath a tongue, hath an interpretation: let all things be done to edification. 27If any speak with a tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and in course: and let one interpret. 28But if there be no interpreter, let him hold his peace in the church and speak to himself and to God.…
Cross References
1 Corinthians 12:10
To another the working of miracles: to another, prophecy: to another, the discerning of spirits: to another, diverse kinds of tongues: to another, interpretation of speeches.

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 14:5
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 14:13
And therefore he that speaketh by a tongue, let him pray that he may interpret.

1 Corinthians 14:28
But if there be no interpreter, let him hold his peace in the church and speak to himself and to God.

1 Corinthians 14:26
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