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TONGUE SPEAKING: Acts 2:4-8
Key KJV Scriptures:
Acts 2:1-11; 10:44-48; 1 Corinthians 12:7-11; 13:8-13; 14:1-28
Key KJV Scriptures: Full Text
55 indexed verses · Showing 1–40. Read each passage in its chapter context.
Acts 2:1 (KJV)
And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
Acts 2:2 (KJV)
And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
Acts 2:3 (KJV)
And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.
Acts 2:4 (KJV)
And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Acts 2:5 (KJV)
And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven.
Acts 2:6 (KJV)
Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.
Acts 2:7 (KJV)
And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans?
Acts 2:8 (KJV)
And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?
Acts 2:9 (KJV)
Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia,
Acts 2:10 (KJV)
Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes,
Acts 2:11 (KJV)
Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.
Acts 10:44 (KJV)
While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word.
Acts 10:45 (KJV)
And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Acts 10:46 (KJV)
For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then answered Peter,
Acts 10:47 (KJV)
Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?
Acts 10:48 (KJV)
And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then prayed they him to tarry certain days.
1 Corinthians 12:7 (KJV)
But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.
1 Corinthians 12:8 (KJV)
For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
1 Corinthians 12:9 (KJV)
To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
1 Corinthians 12:10 (KJV)
To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:
1 Corinthians 12:11 (KJV)
But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.
1 Corinthians 13:8 (KJV)
Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
1 Corinthians 13:9 (KJV)
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
1 Corinthians 13:10 (KJV)
But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
1 Corinthians 13:11 (KJV)
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
1 Corinthians 13:12 (KJV)
For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
1 Corinthians 13:13 (KJV)
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
1 Corinthians 14:1 (KJV)
Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.
1 Corinthians 14:2 (KJV)
For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.
1 Corinthians 14:3 (KJV)
But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort.
1 Corinthians 14:4 (KJV)
He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church.
1 Corinthians 14:5 (KJV)
I would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.
1 Corinthians 14:6 (KJV)
Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine?
1 Corinthians 14:7 (KJV)
And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?
1 Corinthians 14:8 (KJV)
For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?
1 Corinthians 14:9 (KJV)
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.
1 Corinthians 14:10 (KJV)
There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification.
1 Corinthians 14:11 (KJV)
Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me.
1 Corinthians 14:12 (KJV)
Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church.
1 Corinthians 14:13 (KJV)
Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret.