ECB(i)
2 For whoever speaks in a tongue speaks not to humanity but to Elohim; for no one hearkens; for in spirit, he speaks mysteries.
3 And whoever prophesies to humanity speaks to edification and beseeching and consolation:
4 whoever speaks in a tongue edifies himself; and whoever prophesies edifies the ecclesia.
5 I will that you all speak with tongues but rather that you prophesy: for whoever prophesies is greater than whoever speaks with tongues, - unless he translates to edify the ecclesia.
6 And now brothers, whenever I come to you speaking with tongues, what benefit I you - unless I speak to you either in apocalypse or in knowledge? Or in prophesying or in doctrine?
7 Still the soulless, giving voice, whether flute or cither, unless they give a distinction in the sounds, how know we what is fluted or cithered?
8 And whenever the trumpet gives an uncertain voice, who prepares himself to war?
9 Thus likewise you, unless through the tongue, you give words well understood, how know we what is spoken? - for you speak to air.
10 There are, if perhaps, so many genos of voices in the cosmos and none of them is voiceless.
11 So unless ever I know the dynamis of the voice I am as a barbarian to him who speaks and whoever speaks as a barbarian to me.