1 Corinthians 14:28
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New International Version (©1984)
If there is no interpreter, the speaker should keep quiet in the church and speak to himself and God.

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

International Standard Version (©2008)
If an interpreter is not present, the speaker should remain silent in the church and speak to himself and God.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
But if an interpreter isn't present, those people should remain silent in church. They should only speak to themselves and to God.

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

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

Bible in Basic English
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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But if there be no interpreter, let him hold his peace in the church, and speak to himself and to God.

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

English Revised Version
but if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.

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

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

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

Young's Literal Translation
and if there may be no interpreter, let him be silent in an assembly, and to himself let him speak, and to God.

Geneva Study Bible

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

People's New Testament

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.

Wesley's Notes

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

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

28. let him-the speaker in unknown tongues.

speak to himself, and to God-(compare 1Co 14:2, 4)-privately and not in the hearing of others.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

14:26-33 Religious exercises in public assemblies should have this view; Let all be done to edifying. As to the speaking in an unknown tongue, if another were present who could interpret, two miraculous gifts might be exercised at once, and thereby the church be edified, and the faith of the hearers confirmed at the same time. As to prophesying, two or three only should speak at one meeting, and this one after the other, not all at once. The man who is inspired by the Spirit of God will observe order and decency in delivering his revelations. God never teaches men to neglect their duties, or to act in any way unbecoming their age or station.


1 Corinthians 14:27 If anyone speaks in a tongue, it should be by two or at the most three, and each in turn, and one must interpret;
1 Corinthians 14:29 Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others pass judgment. (NASB ©1995)

Assembly Church Gift Interpret Interpreter Quiet Sense Silence Silent Speak Speaker Speaking Words


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

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