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So also you, unless you uttered by the tongue words easy to understand, how would it be known what is spoken? For you would be speaking into the air.

1 Corinthians 14:9 · WEB

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ગુજરાતીકરિંથીઓને પહેલો પત્ર ૧૪:૯
એમ જ તમે પણ જો જીભ વડે સમજી શકાય એવા શબ્દો ના બોલો તો બોલેલી વાત કેવી રીતે સમજાય? કેમ કે એમ કરવાથી તમે હવામાં બોલનારા જેવા ગણાશો.
हिन्दी1 कुरिन्थियों १४:९
ऐसे ही तुम भी यदि जीभ से साफ बातें न कहो, तो जो कुछ कहा जाता है वह कैसे समझा जाएगा? तुम तो हवा से बातें करनेवाले ठहरोगे।

In context

7Even lifeless things that make a sound, whether pipe or harp, if they didn’t give a distinction in the sounds, how would it be known what is piped or harped?

8For if the trumpet gave an uncertain sound, who would prepare himself for war?

9So also you, unless you uttered by the tongue words easy to understand, how would it be known what is spoken? For you would be speaking into the air.

10There are, it may be, so many kinds of languages in the world, and none of them is without meaning.

11If then I don’t know the meaning of the language, I would be to him who speaks a foreigner, and he who speaks would be a foreigner to me.

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