"Is speaking in tongues wrong?" (Alleged Contradiction #E7757)
For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle? So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air.
I Corinthians 14:8, 9
Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.
I Corinthians 14:39
Response
No, the Bible never says that speaking in tongues is wrong, as long as it is done “decently and in order” (I Corinthians 14:40). In I Corinthians, Paul reproved the church because people were speaking in tongues without an interpreter. This was an unprofitable practice because without an interpreter no one knew what a man was saying. Paul went on to say that “God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.”
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