1 Corinthians

1611 King James Version (KJV)

1 Corinthians 14:28

“But if there be no interpreter, let him keepe silence in the Church, and let him speake to himselfe, and to God.”

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Other Translations for 1 Corinthians 14:28

But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.
- King James Version

but if there is no interpreter, he must keep silent in the church; and let him speak to himself and to God.
- New American Standard Version (1995)

but if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.
- American Standard Version (1901)

But if there is no one to give the sense, let him keep quiet in the church; and let his words be to himself and to God.
- Basic English Bible

but if there be no interpreter, let him be silent in [the] assembly, and let him speak to himself and to God.
- Darby Bible

But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.
- Webster's Bible

or if there is no interpreter, let the man with the gift be silent in the Church, speaking to himself and to God.
- Weymouth Bible

But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent in the assembly, and let him speak to himself, and to God.
- World English Bible

But if there be not an interpretour, be he stille in the chirche, and speke he to hym silf and to God.
- Wycliffe Bible

and if there may be no interpreter, let him be silent in an assembly, and to himself let him speak, and to God.
- Youngs Literal Bible

Commentary for 1 Corinthians 14:28

Wesley's Notes for 1 Corinthians 14:28

14:28 Let him speak - That tongue, if he find it profitable to himself in his private devotions.


People's Bible Notes for 1 Corinthians 14:28


1Co 14:28 But if there be no interpreter. In that case the rule, "Let all things be done to edifying" (1Co 14:26), will force the speaker in tongues to keep silence in the church. He may speak somewhere else, or in his soul, but not in the assembly of the saints.

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