11. Therefore, if I do not know the meaning of the language, I shall be a foreigner to him who speaks, and he who speaks will be a foreigner to me.
12. Even so you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, let it be for the edification of the church that you seek to excel.
13. Therefore let him who speaks in a tongue pray that he may interpret.
14. For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful.
15. What is the conclusion then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will also pray with the understanding. I will sing with the spirit, and I will also sing with the understanding.
16. Otherwise, if you bless with the spirit, how will he who occupies the place of the uninformed say “Amen” at your giving of thanks, since he does not understand what you say?
17. For you indeed give thanks well, but the other is not edified.
18. I thank my God I speak with tongues more than you all;
19. yet in the church I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I may teach others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue.
20. Brethren, do not be children in understanding; however, in malice be babes, but in understanding be mature.
21. In the law it is written:“With men of other tongues and other lipsI will speak to this people;And yet, for all that, they will not hear Me,”says the Lord.