Bible verses about "language" | DouayRheims

¹ When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a barbarous people:

⁸ And how have we heard, every man our own tongue wherein we were born? ⁹ Parthians and Medes and Elamites and inhabitants of Mesopotamia, Judea, and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, ¹⁰ Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, ¹¹ Jews also, and proselytes, Cretes, and Arabians: we have heard them speak in our own tongues the wonderful works of God.

¹⁰ There are, for example, so many kinds of tongues in this world: and none is without voice.

² For he that speaketh in a tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man heareth. Yet by the Spirit he speaketh mysteries. ³ But he that prophesieth speaketh to men unto edification and exhortation and comfort. ⁴ He that speaketh in a tongue edifieth himself: but he that prophesieth, edifieth the church. ⁵ And I would have you all to speak with tongues, but rather to prophesy. For greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues: unless perhaps he interpret, that the church may receive edification. ⁶ But now, brethren, if I come to you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, unless I speak to you either in revelation or in knowledge or in prophecy or in doctrine? ⁷ Even things without life that give sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction of sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped? ⁸ For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle? ⁹ So likewise you, except you utter by the tongue plain speech, how shall it be known what is said? For you shall be speaking into the air. ¹⁰ There are, for example, so many kinds of tongues in this world: and none is without voice. ¹¹ If then I know not the power of the voice, I shall be to him to whom I speak a barbarian: and he that speaketh a barbarian to me. ¹² So you also, forasmuch as you are zealous of spirits, seek to abound unto the edifying of the church. ¹³ And therefore he that speaketh by a tongue, let him pray that he may interpret. ¹⁴ For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prayeth: but my understanding is without fruit. ¹⁵ What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, I will pray also with the understanding, I will sing with the spirit, I will sing also with the understanding. ¹⁶ Else, if thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that holdeth the place of the unlearned say, Amen, to thy blessing? Because he knoweth not what thou sayest. ¹⁷ For thou indeed givest thanks well: but the other is not edified. ¹⁸ I thank my God I speak with all your tongues. ¹⁹ But in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that I may instruct others also: than ten thousand words in a tongue. ²⁰ Brethren, do not become children in sense. But in malice be children: and in sense be perfect. ²¹ In the law it is written: In other tongues and other lips I will speak to this people: and neither so will they hear me, saith the Lord. ²² Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to believers but to unbelievers: but prophecies, not to unbelievers but to believers. ²³ If therefore the whole church come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in unlearned persons or infidels, will they not say that you are mad? ²⁴ But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not or an unlearned person, he is convinced of all: he is judged of all. ²⁵ The secrets of his heart are made manifest. And so, falling down on his face, he will adore God, affirming that God is among you indeed. ²⁶ How is it then, brethren? When you come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a revelation, hath a tongue, hath an interpretation: let all things be done to edification. ²⁷ If any speak with a tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and in course: and let one interpret. ²⁸ But if there be no interpreter, let him hold his peace in the church and speak to himself and to God.

¹ And the earth was of one tongue, and of the same speech. ² And when they removed from the east, they found a plain in the land of Sennaar, and dwelt in it. ³ And each one said to his neighbour: Come let us make brick, and bake them with fire. And they had brick instead of stones, and slime instead of mortar: ⁴ And they said: Come, let us make a city and a tower, the top whereof may reach to heaven; and let us make our name famous before we be scattered abroad into all lands. ⁵ And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of Adam were building. ⁶ And he said: Behold, it is one people, and all have one tongue: and they have begun to do this, neither will they leave off from their designs, till they accomplish them in deed. ⁷ Come ye, therefore, let us go down, and there confound their tongue, that they may not understand one another's speech. ⁸ And so the Lord scattered them from that place into all lands, and they ceased to build the city. ⁹ And therefore the name thereof was called Babel, because there the language of the whole earth was confounded: and from thence the Lord scattered them abroad upon the face of all countries.

⁶ And he said: Behold, it is one people, and all have one tongue: and they have begun to do this, neither will they leave off from their designs, till they accomplish them in deed.

⁸ And how have we heard, every man our own tongue wherein we were born?

⁴ The Lord hath given me a learned tongue, that I should know how to uphold by word him that is weary: he wakeneth in the morning, in the morning he wakeneth my ear, that I may hear him as a master.