20 Brethren, do not become children in
your mindsets, (but be infants in malice), but become mature in
your mindsets.
21 It has been written in the law, ‘I will be speaking to this people in different languages and by other lips, and thus they will not even hear me, says the Lord.’
22 So-then
foreign languages are for a sign, not to those who believe, but to the unbelieving, but prophesying
is for a sign, not to the unbelieving, but to those who believe.
23 Therefore, if the whole congregation comes together in the same
place, and
if all speak with
foreign languages, and
if unskilled or unbelieving
people come in, will they not be saying that you are insane?
24 But if all prophesy and some unbelieving or unskilled
person comes in, he is reproved by all. He is judged by all.
25 And thus, the secret things of his heart become apparent, and so, when he has fallen down upon his face, he will be worshiping God, reporting that God really is among you.