1 Corinthians 14:19
Meaning, cross-references, and a prayer for 1 Corinthians 14:19 — by Collins Asein
Quick Summary
1 Corinthians 14:19 is a verse from the book of 1 Corinthians in the New Testament. The KJV reads: "Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ..." Below you will find the full verse text, cross-references, meaning, and a prayer based on this scripture.
1 Corinthians 14:19 — KJV
“Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.”
— 1 Corinthians 14:19 (KJV)
1 Corinthians 14:19 in Context — About the Book of 1 Corinthians
1 Corinthians is pastoral surgery on a gifted, divided, messy church — addressing factions, immorality, lawsuits, worship chaos, and doubts about resurrection. It contains the love chapter read at countless weddings and the Bible's fullest teaching on spiritual gifts and the resurrection body.
Cross-References for 1 Corinthians 14:19
“I would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.”
Shares key themes with 1 Corinthians 14:19: church, rather, speak
“And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more right in David than ye: why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king? And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel. despise...: Heb. set us at light”
Shares key themes with 1 Corinthians 14:19: words, also, than
“Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethaneel, his brethren, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of the Levites, gave unto the Levites for passover offerings five thousand small cattle, and five hundred oxen. gave: Heb. offered”
Shares key themes with 1 Corinthians 14:19: five, also, than
“For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. I had...: Heb. I would choose rather to sit at the threshold”
Shares key themes with 1 Corinthians 14:19: rather, than, ten
“And the five and twenty thousand of length, and the ten thousand of breadth, shall also the Levites, the ministers of the house, have for themselves, for a possession for twenty chambers.”
Shares key themes with 1 Corinthians 14:19: five, also, ten
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