A Visitor Understands

20Brothers, do not become children in your thinking, but be infants in evil; yet in your thinking become mature.

21In the Law it is written: “By people of other tongues and by the lips of foreigners I will speak to this people, and not even in this way will they listen to me,” says the Lord.

22So then, tongues are for a sign not to those who believe but to unbelievers, while prophecy is not to unbelievers but to those who believe.

23Therefore, if the whole church comes together in one place and all speak in tongues, and uninstructed people or unbelievers enter, will they not say that you are out of your minds?

24But if all prophesy, and some unbeliever or uninstructed person enters, he is convicted by all; he is examined by all.

25the secrets of his heart become evident, and so, falling on his face, he will worship God, declaring that God truly is among you.