So then, one who speaks in a tongue should pray that he may interpret.

Jesus said to her, “I, the one speaking to you, am he.”

The one who speaks in a tongue builds himself up, but the one who prophesies builds up the church.

Jesus told him, “You have seen him; he is the one speaking with you.”

For the one speaking in a tongue does not speak to people but to God, for no one understands; he is speaking mysteries by the Spirit.

When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into the deep water and lower your nets for a catch.”

They brought forward false witnesses who said, “This man does not stop saying things against this holy place and the law.

When the angel who had spoken to him departed, Cornelius called two of his personal servants and a devout soldier from among those who served him,

If then I do not know the meaning of a language, I will be a foreigner to the speaker and the speaker a foreigner to me.

The angel who spoke to me had a golden measuring rod with which to measure the city and its foundation stones and wall.

The person who speaks on his own authority desires to receive honor for himself; the one who desires the honor of the one who sent him is a man of integrity, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

Our ancestors had the tabernacle of testimony in the wilderness, just as God who spoke to Moses ordered him to make it according to the design he had seen.

So I want you to understand that no one speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus is cursed,” and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.

I wish you all spoke in tongues, but even more that you would prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongues, unless he interprets so that the church may be strengthened.

Now, brothers and sisters, if I come to you speaking in tongues, how will I help you unless I speak to you with a revelation or with knowledge or prophecy or teaching?

speaking of these things in all his letters. Some things in these letters are hard to understand, things the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they also do to the rest of the scriptures.