1 Corinthians 14:27
Modern Translations
New International Version
If anyone speaks in a tongue, two--or at the most three--should speak, one at a time, and someone must interpret.

New Living Translation
No more than two or three should speak in tongues. They must speak one at a time, and someone must interpret what they say.

English Standard Version
If any speak in a tongue, let there be only two or at most three, and each in turn, and let someone interpret.

Berean Study Bible
If anyone speaks in a tongue, two, or at most three, should speak in turn, and someone must interpret.

New American Standard Bible
If anyone speaks in a tongue, it must be by two or at the most three, and each one in turn, and one is to interpret;

NASB 1995
If anyone speaks in a tongue, it should be by two or at the most three, and each in turn, and one must interpret;

NASB 1977
If anyone speaks in a tongue, it should be by two or at the most three, and each in turn, and let one interpret;

Amplified Bible
If anyone speaks in a tongue, it should be limited to two or at the most three, and each one speaking in turn, and one must interpret [what is said].

Christian Standard Bible
If anyone speaks in a tongue, there are to be only two, or at the most three, each in turn, and let someone interpret.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
If any person speaks in another language, there should be only two, or at the most three, each in turn, and someone must 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.

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.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
If people speak in other languages, only two or three at the most should speak. They should do it one at a time, and someone must interpret what each person says.

International Standard Version
If anyone speaks in a foreign language, only two or three at the most should do so, one at a time, and somebody must interpret.

NET Bible
If someone speaks in a tongue, it should be two, or at the most three, one after the other, and someone must interpret.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret.

New King James Version
If anyone speaks in a tongue, let there be two or at the most three, each in turn, and let one interpret.

King James 2000 Bible
If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that in turn; and let one interpret.

New Heart English Bible
If anyone speaks in another language, let it be two, or at the most three, and in turn; and let one interpret.

World English Bible
If any man speaks in another language, let it be two, or at the most three, and in turn; and let one interpret.

American King James Version
If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret.

American Standard Version
If any man speaketh in a tongue, let it be by two, or at the most three, and that in turn; and let one interpret:

A Faithful Version
If anyone speaks in a foreign language, let it be by two, or three at the most, and let that be in succession; and let one interpret.

Darby Bible Translation
If any one speak with a tongue, [let it be] two, or at the most three, and separately, and let one interpret;

English Revised Version
If any man speaketh in a tongue, let it be by two, or at the most three, and that in turn; and let one interpret:

Webster's Bible Translation
If any man speaketh in an unknown language, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
If any man speake a strange tongue, let it be by two, or at the most, by three, and that by course, and let one interprete.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Yf any man speake with tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course, and let one interprete.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Yf eny ma speake with tunges, let him do it him selfe beynge the seconde, or at the most him selfe beynge ye thirde, and one after another, and let one interprete it.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
If eny man speake wt tonges let it be two at once or at the most thre at once and that by course: and let another interprete it.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
if anyone speaks an [unknown] tongue, by two, or at the most, by three, and in turn, and let one interpret;

Berean Literal Bible
If anyone speaks with a tongue, let it be by two or the most three, and in turn; and let one interpret.

Young's Literal Translation
if an unknown tongue any one do speak, by two, or at the most, by three, and in turn, and let one interpret;

Smith's Literal Translation
Whether any speak in a tongue, by two, or the most by three, and in part; and let one interpret.

Literal Emphasis Translation
If anyone speaks with a tongue, let it be by two or the most three and in turn and let one interpret.

Catholic Translations
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.

Catholic Public Domain Version
If anyone is speaking in tongues, let there be only two, or at most three, and then in turn, and let someone interpret.

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And if any speak in languages, let two speak, or as many as three, and let each one speak and let one translate.

Lamsa Bible
And if any man should speak in an unknown tongue, let two or at most three speak, and speak one by one; and let one interpret.

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
If any speak in an unknown tongue, let two, or, at most, three, speak at each meeting, and in succession: and let one interpret.

Godbey New Testament
If one speaks with a tongue, let it he by twos, or at most by threes, and separately; and let one interpret;

Haweis New Testament
If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at most by three, and one after another; and let one interpret.

Mace New Testament
and if any man do speak in an unknown tongue, let but two speak, or three at the most, and that by turns: and let there be but one to interpret.

Weymouth New Testament
If there is speaking in an unknown tongue, only two or at the most three should speak, and they should do so one at a time, and one should interpret;

Worrell New Testament
If any one speaks in a tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and in turn; and let one interpret;

Worsley New Testament
And if any one speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at most by three, and that by turns; and let one interpret.
















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