1 Corinthians 14:11
Good News Translation
But if I do not know the language being spoken, those who use it will be foreigners to me and I will be a foreigner to them.

New Revised Standard Version
If then I do not know the meaning of a sound, I will be a foreigner to the speaker and the speaker a foreigner to me.

Contemporary English Version
But if I don't understand the language that someone is using, we will be like foreigners to each other.

New American Bible
but if I do not know the meaning of a language, I shall be a foreigner to one who speaks it, and one who speaks it a foreigner to me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If then I know not the power of the voice, I shall be to him to whom I speak a barbarian: and he that speaketh a barbarian to me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If then I know not the power of the voice, I shall be to him to whom I speak a barbarian: and he that speaketh a barbarian to me.

I shall.

1 Corinthians 14:21 In the law it is written: In other tongues and other lips I will speak to this people: and neither so will they hear me, saith the Lord.

Acts 28:2,4 For kindling a fire, they refreshed us all, because of the present rain and of the cold. . . .

Romans 1:14 To the Greeks and to the barbarians, to the wise and to the unwise, I am a debtor.

Colossians 3:11 Where there is neither Gentile nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian nor Scythian, bond nor free. But Christ is all and in all.

Context
Prophecy and Tongues
10There are, for example, so many kinds of tongues in this world: and none is without voice. 11If then I know not the power of the voice, I shall be to him to whom I speak a barbarian: and he that speaketh a barbarian to me. 12So you also, forasmuch as you are zealous of spirits, seek to abound unto the edifying of the church.…
Cross References
Acts 28:2
For kindling a fire, they refreshed us all, because of the present rain and of the cold.

1 Corinthians 14:10
There are, for example, so many kinds of tongues in this world: and none is without voice.

1 Corinthians 14:10
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