1 Corinthians 14:21
Good News Translation
In the Scriptures it is written, "By means of people speaking strange languages I will speak to my people, says the Lord. I will speak through lips of foreigners, but even then my people will not listen to me."

New Revised Standard Version
In the law it is written, “By people of strange tongues and by the lips of foreigners I will speak to this people; yet even then they will not listen to me,” says the Lord.

Contemporary English Version
In the Scriptures the Lord says, "I will use strangers who speak unknown languages to talk to my people. They will speak to them in foreign languages, but still my people won't listen to me."

New American Bible
It is written in the law: “By people speaking strange tongues and by the lips of foreigners I will speak to this people, and even so they will not listen to me, says the Lord.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

the law.

John 10:34 Jesus answered them: Is it not written in your law: I said, you are gods?

Romans 3:19 Now we know that what things soever the law speaketh, it speaketh to them that are in the law: that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may be made subject to God.

With.

Deuteronomy 28:49 The Lord will bring upon thee a nation from afar, and from the uttermost ends of the earth, like an eagle that flyeth swiftly, whose tongue thou canst not understand,

Isaiah 28:11,12 For with the speech of lips, and with another tongue he will speak to this people. . . .

Jeremiah 5:15 Behold I will bring upon you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, saith the Lord: a strong nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou shalt not know, nor understand what they say.

Context
Prophecy and Tongues
20Brethren, do not become children in sense. But in malice be children: and in sense be perfect. 21In 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. 22Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to believers but to unbelievers: but prophecies, not to unbelievers but to believers.…
Cross References
Isaiah 28:11
For with the speech of lips, and with another tongue he will speak to this people.

John 10:34
Jesus answered them: Is it not written in your law: I said, you are gods?

Acts 2:4
And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost: and they began to speak with divers tongues, according as the Holy Ghost gave them to speak.

1 Corinthians 14:34
Let women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted them to speak but to be subject, as also the law saith.

1 Corinthians 14:20
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