Key Verse Spotlight
1 Corinthians 14:23 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“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?”
1 Corinthians 14:23
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
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.
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.
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?
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:
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.
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