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1 Corinthians 14:11

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Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh [shall be] a barbarian unto me.

Therefore {G3767} if {G3362} I know {G1492} not {G3362} the meaning {G1411} of the voice {G5456}, I shall be {G2071} unto him that speaketh {G2980} a barbarian {G915}, and {G2532} he that speaketh {G2980} shall be a barbarian {G915} unto {G1722} me {G1698}.

but if I don’t know what a person’s sounds mean, I will be a foreigner to the speaker and the speaker will be a foreigner to me.

If, then, I do not know the meaning of someone’s language, I am a foreigner to the speaker, and he is a foreigner to me.

If then I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be to him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh will be a barbarian unto me.

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Cross-References

  • Acts 28:2 (4 votes)

    And the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold.

  • 1 Corinthians 14:21 (2 votes)

    ¶ In the law it is written, With [men of] other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord.

  • Acts 28:4 (2 votes)

    And when the barbarians saw the [venomous] beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.

  • Romans 1:14 (2 votes)

    I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise.

  • Colossians 3:11 (2 votes)

    Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond [nor] free: but Christ [is] all, and in all.