Bible verses about "language" | YLT

¹ In the going out of Israel from Egypt, The house of Jacob from a strange people,

⁸ and how do we hear, each in our proper dialect, in which we were born? ⁹ Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and those dwelling in Mesopotamia, in Judea also, and Cappadocia, Pontus, and Asia, ¹⁰ Phrygia also, and Pamphylia, Egypt, and the parts of Libya, that are along Cyrene, and the strangers of Rome, both Jews and proselytes, ¹¹ Cretes and Arabians, we did hear them speaking in our tongues the great things of God.'

¹⁰ There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is unmeaning,

² for he who is speaking in an unknown tongue—to men he doth not speak, but to God, for no one doth hearken, and in spirit he doth speak secrets; ³ and he who is prophesying to men doth speak edification, and exhortation, and comfort; ⁴ he who is speaking in an unknown tongue, himself doth edify, and he who is prophesying, an assembly doth edify; ⁵ and I wish you all to speak with tongues, and more that ye may prophecy, for greater is he who is prophesying than he who is speaking with tongues, except one may interpret, that the assembly may receive edification.
⁶ And now, brethren, if I may come unto you speaking tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either in revelation, or in knowledge, or in prophesying, or in teaching? ⁷ yet the things without life giving sound—whether pipe or harp—if a difference in the sounds they may not give, how shall be known that which is piped or that which is harped? ⁸ for if also an uncertain sound a trumpet may give, who shall prepare himself for battle? ⁹ so also ye, if through the tongue, speech easily understood ye may not give—how shall that which is spoken be known? for ye shall be speaking to air. ¹⁰ There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is unmeaning, ¹¹ if, then, I do not know the power of the voice, I shall be to him who is speaking a foreigner, and he who is speaking, is to me a foreigner; ¹² so also ye, since ye are earnestly desirous of spiritual gifts, for the building up of the assembly seek that ye may abound; ¹³ wherefore he who is speaking in an unknown tongue—let him pray that he may interpret; ¹⁴ for if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit doth pray, and my understanding is unfruitful.
¹⁵ What then is it? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray also with the understanding; I will sing psalms with the spirit, and I will sing psalms also with the understanding; ¹⁶ since, if thou mayest bless with the spirit, he who is filling the place of the unlearned, how shall he say the Amen at thy giving of thanks, since what thou dost say he hath not known? ¹⁷ for thou, indeed, dost give thanks well, but the other is not built up! ¹⁸ I give thanks to my God—more than you all with tongues speaking— ¹⁹ but in an assembly I wish to speak five words through my understanding, that others also I may instruct, rather than myriads of words in an unknown tongue. ²⁰ Brethren, become not children in the understanding, but in the evil be ye babes, and in the understanding become ye perfect;
²¹ in the law it hath been written, that, `With other tongues and with other lips I will speak to this people, and not even so will they hear Me, saith the Lord;' ²² so that the tongues are for a sign, not to the believing, but to the unbelieving; and the prophesy is not for the unbelieving, but for the believing, ²³ If, therefore, the whole assembly may come together, to the same place, and all may speak with tongues, and there may come in unlearned or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad? ²⁴ and if all may prophecy, and any one may come in, an unbeliever or unlearned, he is convicted by all, he is discerned by all, ²⁵ and so the secrets of his heart become manifest, and so having fallen upon his face, he will bow before God, declaring that God really is among you.
²⁶ What then is it, brethren? whenever ye may come together, each of you hath a psalm, hath a teaching, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation? let all things be for building up; ²⁷ if an unknown tongue any one do speak, by two, or at the most, by three, and in turn, and let one interpret; ²⁸ and if there may be no interpreter, let him be silent in an assembly, and to himself let him speak, and to God.

¹ And the whole earth is of one pronunciation, and of the same words, ² and it cometh to pass, in their journeying from the east, that they find a valley in the land of Shinar, and dwell there; ³ and they say each one to his neighbour, `Give help, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly:' and the brick is to them for stone, and the bitumen hath been to them for mortar. <sup>4</sup> And they say, `Give help, let us build for ourselves a city and tower, and its head in the heavens, and make for ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of all the earth.'
⁵ And Jehovah cometh down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men have builded; ⁶ and Jehovah saith, `Lo, the people is one, and one pronunciation is to them all, and this it hath dreamed of doing; and now, nothing is restrained from them of that which they have purposed to do. ⁷ Give help, let us go down, and mingle there their pronunciation, so that a man doth not understand the pronunciation of his companion.' ⁸ And Jehovah doth scatter them from thence over the face of all the earth, and they cease to build the city; ⁹ therefore hath one called its name Babel, for there hath Jehovah mingled the pronunciation of all the earth, and from thence hath Jehovah scattered them over the face of all the earth.

⁶ and Jehovah saith, `Lo, the people is one, and one pronunciation is to them all, and this it hath dreamed of doing; and now, nothing is restrained from them of that which they have purposed to do.

⁸ and how do we hear, each in our proper dialect, in which we were born?

⁴ The Lord Jehovah hath given to me The tongue of taught ones, To know to aid the weary by a word, He waketh morning by morning, He waketh for me an ear to hear as taught ones.