The Need for Intelligibility in Worship

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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?

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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?

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for if also an uncertain sound a trumpet may give, who shall prepare himself for battle?

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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.

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

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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;

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so also ye, since ye are earnestly desirous of spiritual gifts, for the building up of the assembly seek that ye may abound;

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