1st Corinthians Chapter 14 verse 18 Holy Bible
I thank God, I speak with tongues more than you all:
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I give praise to God that I am able to make use of tongues more than you all:
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I thank God I speak in a tongue more than all of you:
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I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all:
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I thank my God, I speak with other languages more than you all.
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I give thanks to my God -- more than you all with tongues speaking --
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 18. - I speak with tongues; rather, with a tongue. More than ye all. This is exactly what we should expect of the emotional, impassioned nature of St. Paul, who was so wholly under the influence of the Spirit of God. But it is clear from all that he has been saying that, while the personal and evidential value of this gift of yielding his whole being to the spiritual impulse, which expressed and relieved itself by inarticulate utterance, was such as to make him "thank God" that he possessed it, he must either have exercised it only in private gatherings or must have always accompanied it by interpretation.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(18, 19) I thank my God.--Here the Apostle resumes in the first person, coming back, after the parenthesis, to the continuation of his own desire and example. He does not undervalue that gift the misuse and exaggeration of which he is censuring; he possesses it himself in a remarkable degree; yet in the Church (i.e., in any assembly of Christians for prayer or instruction) he would prefer to speak five words with his mind rather than ten thousand with a tongue only; for the object of such assemblies is not private prayer or private ecstatic communion with God, but the edification of others. The word used for "teach" in this verse is literally our word catechise.
