14:1 你们要追求爱，更要切慕属灵的恩赐，尤其要切慕申言。
Pursue love, and desire earnestly spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.
14:2 那说方言的，原不是对人说，乃是对神说，因为没有人听出来，然而他在灵里却是讲说各样的奥秘。
For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God; for no one hears, but in his spirit he speaks mysteries.
14:3 但那申言的，是对人讲说建造、勉励和安慰。
But he who prophesies speaks building up and encouragement and consolation to men.
14:4 那说方言的，是建造自己，但那申言的，乃是建造教会。
He who speaks in a tongue builds up himself, but he who prophesies builds up the church.
14:5 我愿意你们都说方言，但我更愿意你们申言；说方言的，若不翻出来，使教会得建造，那申言的，就比他强了。
I desire that you all speak in tongues, but especially that you would prophesy; and greater is he who prophesies than he who speaks in tongues, unless he interprets, that the church may receive building up.
14:6 弟兄们，我到你们那里去，若只说方言，与你们有什么益处？除非我用启示，或知识，或预言，或教训，对你们讲说。
But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking in tongues, what will I profit you, unless I speak to you either in revelation or in knowledge or in prophecy or in teaching?
14:7 就是那无生命而发声之物，或箫、或琴，若发出来的声调没有分别，怎能知道所吹所弹的是什么？
Yet even lifeless things, whether flute or harp, in giving a sound, if they give no distinction in the tones, how will what is played on the flute or on the harp be known?
14:8 若吹无定的号声，谁能预备打仗？
For also if the trumpet gives an uncertain sound, who will prepare himself for battle?
14:9 你们也是如此，若不用舌头说容易明白的话，人怎能知道你所说的是什么？这样，你们就是向空气说话了。
So also you, unless you give with the tongue a word easy to understand, how will what is being said be known? For you will be speaking into the air.
14:10 世上的口音，种类或者甚多，却没有一样是无音义的。
There are perhaps many kinds of voices in the world, and not one is without significance.
14:11 这样，我若不明白那口音的意思，我对那说话的便是化外之人，那说话的对我也是化外之人。
If then I do not know the meaning of the voice, I will be to him who is speaking a barbarian, and he who is speaking a barbarian to me.
14:12 你们也是如此，既渴慕灵，就要为着教会的建造，寻求得以超越。
So also you, since you are zealous of spirits, seek that you may excel for the building up of the church.
14:13 所以那说方言的，就当祷告，使他能翻出来。
Therefore let him who speaks in a tongue pray that he may interpret.
14:14 因为我若用方言祷告，我的灵就祷告，我的心思却没有作用。
For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful.
14:15 这却怎么样？我要用灵祷告，也要用心思祷告；我要用灵歌唱，也要用心思歌唱。
What then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray also with the mind; I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing also with the mind.
14:16 不然，你若用灵祝福，在场那不通方言的人，既然不晓得你所说的，怎能在你感谢的时候说阿们？
Otherwise if you bless with the spirit, how shall he who fills the place of the unlearned in tongues say the Amen at your giving of thanks, since he does not know what you are saying?
14:17 你固然感谢得好，无奈别人得不着建造。
For you give thanks well, but the other is not built up.
14:18 我感谢神，我说方言比你们众人还多，
I thank God, I speak in tongues more than all of you,
14:19 但在教会中，我宁愿用我的心思说五句话，可以教导人，强如用方言说万句话。
But in the church I would rather speak five words with my mind, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue.
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