1 Corinthians 14:18 BSB

1 Corinthians 14:18

I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you.

BSB

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ASV

I thank God, I speak with tongues more than you all:

KJV

I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all:

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Commentary

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Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

I speak with tongues more than ye all - He understood more languages than any of them did: and this was indispensably necessary, as he was the apostle of the Gentiles in general, and had to preach to different provinces where different dialects, if not languages, were used. In the Hebrew, Syriac, Greek, and Latin, he was undoubtedly well skilled from his education; and how many he might understand by miraculous gift we cannot tell. But, even literally understood, it is very probable that he knew more languages than any man in the Church of Corinth.

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Modern Voices1 voice

Derek Prince

1915–2003

I Thank My God I Speak with Tongues More than You All... (devotional)

When we combine this testimony of Paul's with the other examples given in the book of Acts, it is reasonable to conclude that Paul first began to speak with tongues when Ananias laid his hands upon him for the infilling of the Spirit.

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Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Εὐχαριστῶ	Eucharistō	I thank	G2168 →
τῷ	tō	the	G3588 →
θεῷ	theō	God	G2316 →
πάντων	pantōn	than all	G3956 →
ὑμῶν	humōn	of you	G4771 →
μᾶλλον	mallon	more	G3123 →
γλώσσαις	glōssais	in tongues	G1100 →
λαλῶ·	lalō	speaking;	G2980 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Corinthians 4:7
For who makes you so superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?
leads to
- John 3:27
  John replied, “A man can receive only what is given him from heaven.
- James 1:17
  Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.
- 1 Peter 4:10
  As good stewards of the manifold grace of God, each of you should use whatever gift he has received to serve one another.
- 1 Chronicles 29:11–16
  Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the splendor and the majesty, for everything in heaven and on earth belongs to You. Yours, O LORD, is the kingdom,…
- Romans 12:6
  We have different gifts according to the grace given us. If one’s gift is prophecy, let him use it in proportion to his faith;

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Where the connections lead

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06About 1 Corinthians

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About 1 Corinthians