Speaking in Tongues

Is one of the most misunderstood and underused resource in all Christianity.

21 Records about Speaking In Tongues

21 Records of
Speaking in Tongues in the Bible

There are many places where speaking in tongues is mentioned or referred to. The following are 21 records that are very obvious they are talking about speaking in tongues.

  1. Mark 16:17: "And these signs shall follow them that believe … they shall speak with new tongues." 

  2. Acts 2:4: "And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance."

  3. Acts 2:11: "Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God." 

  4. Acts 2:33: "Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, He hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear."

  5. Acts 10:45, 46: "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. For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God…"

  6. Acts 19:6: "And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied."

  7. I Corinthians 12:10: "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:" 

  8. I Corinthians 12:28-30: "And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues. Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all workers of miracles? Have all the gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?"

  9. I Corinthians 13:1, 2: "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing."

  10.  I Corinthians 13:8: "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.

  11. I Corinthians 14:2: "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."

  12.  I Corinthians 14:4: "He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church."

  13. I Corinthians 14:5: "I would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather than ye prophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying."

  14. I Corinthians 14:6: "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."

  15. I Corinthians 14:12, 13: "Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church. Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret."

  16. I Corinthians 14:14-17: "For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful. What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.

  17. I Corinthians 14:18, 19: "I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all: Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue."

  18. I Corinthians 14:22, 23: "Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying serveth not for them that believe not, but for them which believe. If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?"

  19. I Corinthians 14:26: "How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doc­trine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpre­tation. Let all things be done unto edifying."

  20. I Corinthians 14:27: "If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret."

  21. I Corinthians 14:39, 40: "Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues. Let all things be done decently and in order."