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description: "\"If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlear\" — Read 1 Corinthians 14:23-24 in the King James Version (KJV) with commentary, cross references, and Greek/Hebrew lexicon."
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## 1 Corinthians 14:23-24 in Context (Verses 20–27 KJV)
 
 [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.
 
 [23 ](/kjv/1-corinthians/14/23) If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in *those that are* unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?
 
 [24 ](/kjv/1-corinthians/14/24) But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not, or *one* unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all:
 
 [25 ](/kjv/1-corinthians/14/25) And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling down on *his* face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth.
 
 [26 ](/kjv/1-corinthians/14/26) How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.
 
 [27 ](/kjv/1-corinthians/14/27) 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.
 
[1 Corinthians 13](/kjv/1-corinthians/13) [1 Corinthians 15](/kjv/1-corinthians/15)

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