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## 1 Corinthians 14:19 in Context (Verses 16–22 KJV)
 
 [16 ](/kjv/1-corinthians/14/16) Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned say Amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest?
 
 [17 ](/kjv/1-corinthians/14/17) For thou verily givest thanks well, but the other is not edified.
 
 [18 ](/kjv/1-corinthians/14/18) I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all:
 
 [19 ](/kjv/1-corinthians/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.
 
 [20 ](/kjv/1-corinthians/14/20) Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.
 
 [21 ](/kjv/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.
 
 [22 ](/kjv/1-corinthians/14/22) Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying *serveth* not for them that believe not, but for them which believe.
 
[1 Corinthians 13](/kjv/1-corinthians/13) [1 Corinthians 15](/kjv/1-corinthians/15)

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