Quotes About Understanding

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?

You may be giving thanks well enough, but the other one is not edified.

But in the church, I would rather speak five coherent words to instruct others than ten thousand words in a tongue.

Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.

It is written in the Law: “By strange tongues and foreign lips I will speak to this people, but even then they will not listen to Me, says the Lord.”

Tongues, then, are a sign, not for believers, but for unbelievers. Prophecy, however, is for believers, not for unbelievers.

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?

If anyone speaks in a tongue, two, or at most three, should speak in turn, and someone must interpret.

But if there is no interpreter, he should remain silent in the church and speak only to himself and God.

Did the word of God originate with you? Or are you the only ones it has reached?

But if anyone ignores this, he himself will be ignored.

For “God has put everything under His feet.” Now when it says that everything has been put under Him, this clearly does not include the One who put everything under Him.

The spiritual, however, was not first, but the natural, and then the spiritual.

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,

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.

So I made up my mind not to make another painful visit to you.

Now if anyone has caused grief, he has not grieved me but all of you—to some degree, not to overstate it.

But their minds were closed. For to this day the same veil remains at the reading of the old covenant. It has not been lifted, because only in Christ can it be removed.

And even to this day when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts.

But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.

And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.

Therefore, since we know what it means to fear the Lord, we try to persuade men. What we are is clear to God, and I hope it is clear to your conscience as well.

If we are out of our mind, it is for God; if we are of sound mind, it is for you.

So from now on we regard no one according to the flesh. Although we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.