Quotes about Understanding
For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful.
— 1 Corinthians 14:14
Otherwise, if you speak a blessing in spirit, how can someone who is uninstructed say “Amen” to your thanksgiving, since he does not know what you are saying?
— 1 Corinthians 14:16
You may be giving thanks well enough, but the other one is not edified.
— 1 Corinthians 14:17
But in the church, I would rather speak five coherent words to instruct others than ten thousand words in a tongue.
— 1 Corinthians 14:19
Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.
— 1 Corinthians 14:20
Tongues, then, are a sign, not for believers, but for unbelievers. Prophecy, however, is for believers, not for unbelievers.
— 1 Corinthians 14:22
So if the whole church comes together and everyone speaks in tongues, and some who are uninstructed or some unbelievers come in, will they not say that you are out of your minds?
— 1 Corinthians 14:23
If anyone speaks in a tongue, two, or at most three, should speak in turn, and someone must interpret.
— 1 Corinthians 14:27
But if there is no interpreter, he should remain silent in the church and speak only to himself and God.
— 1 Corinthians 14:28
For we do not write you anything that is beyond your ability to read and understand. And I hope that you will understand us completely,
— 2 Corinthians 1:13
as you have already understood us in part, so that you may boast of us just as we will boast of you in the day of our Lord Jesus.
— 2 Corinthians 1:14
And even to this day when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts.
— 2 Corinthians 3:15