1 Corinthians 14:9

So it is with you. Unless you speak intelligible words with your tongue, how will anyone know what you are saying? You will just be speaking into the air.

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One song meets this passage

  • “I make the sounds you can't understand”

    I Am Nietzsche · Orchid

    strains against 1 Corinthians 14:9

    Paul warns against speech that communicates nothing intelligible; here incomprehensibility is celebrated as revolution rather than lamented as a barrier to love.

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