1 Corinthians 14:21
In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the LORD.
KJV
ἐν τῷ νόμῳ γέγραπται ὅτι ἐν ἑτερογλώσσοις καὶ ἐν χείλεσιν ἑτέρων λαλήσω τῷ λαῷ τούτῳ, καὶ οὐδ’ οὕτως εἰσακούσονταί μου, λέγει κύριος.
Greek NT
In lege scriptum est : Quoniam in aliis linguis et labiis aliis loquar populo huic : et nec sic exaudient me, dicit Dominus.
Vulgate
In the law it is written, By men of strange tongues and by the lips of strangers will I speak unto this people; and not even thus will they hear me, saith the Lord.
ASV
In the law it is written: In other tongues and other lips I will speak to this people: and neither so will they hear me, saith the Lord.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
18 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Intertextual echoes
This verse quotes or alludes to 1 earlier text.
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Isa 28:11 · paraphrase"For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people."Isaiah: with other tongues I will speak — Paul on tongues in worship
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
- ἑτέρων — SBLGNT
- ἑτέρων — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- ἑτέροις — Robinson-Pierpont
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 1Cor 14:19 — Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.
- Acts 2:4 — And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
- Deut 28:49 — The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;
- Isa 28:11 — For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
- Isa 28:11 — For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
- Isa 33:19 — Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.
- Jer 5:15 — Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what the
- Jer 5:15 — Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what the
- Ps 81:5 — This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.