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1 Corinthians 14:18-22 New English Translation (NET)

18. I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you,

19. but in the church I want to speak five words with my mind to instruct others, rather than ten thousand words in a tongue.

20. Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking. Instead, be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.

21. It is written in the law: “By people with strange tongues and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people, yet not even in this way will they listen to me,” says the Lord.

22. So then, tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers. Prophecy, however, is not for unbelievers but for believers.

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