Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
For also if the trumpet give an uncertain voice, who shall prepare himself for war?
New American Standard Bible
For if
King James Version
For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?
Holman Bible
In fact, if the trumpet makes an unclear sound, who will prepare for battle?
International Standard Version
For example, if a bugle doesn't sound a clear call, who will get ready for battle?
A Conservative Version
For also if a trumpet gives an uncertain sound, who will prepare himself for battle?
American Standard Version
For if the trumpet give an uncertain voice, who shall prepare himself for war?
Amplified
And if the [war] bugle produces an indistinct sound, who will prepare himself for battle?
An Understandable Version
For if the trumpet gives an indistinct sound, who will get ready for a battle?
Anderson New Testament
For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who will prepare himself for battle?
Bible in Basic English
For if the war-horn gives out an uncertain note, who will get ready for the fight?
Common New Testament
And if the bugle gives an indistinct sound, who will get ready for battle?
Daniel Mace New Testament
for if the trumpet give an undistinguish'd sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?
Darby Translation
For also, if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself for war?
Godbey New Testament
For if indeed the trumpet may give an uncertain sound, who will prepare himself for the war?
Goodspeed New Testament
If the bugle does not sound a clear call, who will prepare for battle?
John Wesley New Testament
And if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who will prepare himself for the battle?
King James 2000
For if the trumpet gives an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself for the battle?
Lexham Expanded Bible
For indeed, if the trumpet produces an indistinct sound, who will prepare for battle?
Modern King James verseion
For also if a trumpet gives an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself for the battle?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And also if the trumpet give an uncertain voice, who shall prepare himself to fight?
Moffatt New Testament
If the trumpet sounds indistinct, who will get ready for the fray?
Montgomery New Testament
Or, for example, if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, what soldier will be prepared for battle?
NET Bible
If, for example, the trumpet makes an unclear sound, who will get ready for battle?
New Heart English Bible
For if the trumpet gave an uncertain sound, who would prepare himself for war?
Noyes New Testament
For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who will prepare himself for the battle?
Sawyer New Testament
For also if the trumpet gives an uncertain sound, who will prepare himself for the battle?
The Emphasized Bible
For, if also, an uncertain sound, a trumpet, should give, who shall prepare himself for battle?
Thomas Haweis New Testament
For if the trumpet also give an uncertain sound, who will prepare himself for the battle?
Twentieth Century New Testament
If the bugle sounds a doubtful call, who will prepare for battle?
Webster
For if the trumpet shall give an uncertain sound, who will prepare himself for battle?
Weymouth New Testament
If the bugle--to take another example--gives an uncertain sound, who will prepare for battle?
Williams New Testament
Again, indeed, if the bugle does not sound a call distinct and clear, who will prepare for battle?
World English Bible
For if the trumpet gave an uncertain sound, who would prepare himself for war?
Worrell New Testament
For even if a trumpet give an uncertain sound, who will prepare for war?
Worsley New Testament
For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who will prepare himself for the battle?
Youngs Literal Translation
for if also an uncertain sound a trumpet may give, who shall prepare himself for battle?
Themes
Language » Power of speaking different » Sometimes abused
Music » The movements of armies regulated by
Prophecy and prophets » Prophesying vs. Tongues
Tongues » Tongues vs. Prophesying
Tongues (the gift) » The miraculous gift granted to some early Christians
Trumpet » Required to give an intelligible and understood sound
Topics
Interlinear
Paraskeuazo
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in 1 Corinthians 14:8
Images 1 Corinthians 14:8
Prayers for 1 Corinthians 14:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Appropriate Use Of Prophecy And Tongues
7 As inanimate things giving a voice, whether pipe or harp, if it give not a distinction to sounds, how shall the piping or harping be known? 8 For also if the trumpet give an uncertain voice, who shall prepare himself for war? 9 So also ye, except by the tongue ye give an evident word, how shall the speaking be known? for ye shall be speaking into the air.
Cross References
Numbers 10:9
And when ye shall go out to war in your land against the enemy pressing you, and ye sounded the signal in the trumpets; and ye were remembered before Jehovah your God, and ye were saved from your enemies.
Jeremiah 4:19
My bowels, my bowels! I shall afflict the walls of my heart; my heart made commotion to me; I shall not be silent, for the voice of the trumpet thou didst hear, O my soul, the tumult of war.
Joshua 6:4-20
And seven priests shall lift up seven trumpets of alarms before the ark: and in the seventh day ye shall encompass the city seven times, and the priests shall clang the trumpets.
Judges 7:16-18
And he will divide the three hundred men into three beginnings, and he will give trumpets into the hand of them all, and empty buckets, and torches in the midst of the buckets.
Nehemiah 4:18-21
And the builders, a man his sword being girded upon his loins, and building. And he striking upon the trumpet near me.
Job 39:24-25
With leaping and rage he will swallow the earth; and he will not believe that it is the voice of the trumpet
Isaiah 27:13
And it was in that day he shall strike upon the great trumpet, and they perishing came into the land of Assui, and the outcasts into the land of Egypt, and they worshiped to Jehovah in the holy mountain in Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 33:3-6
And he saw the sword coming upon the land, and he struck upon the trumpet and warned the people;
Joel 2:1
Clang ye the trumpet in Zion, shout in my holy mountain: all the inhabitants of the land shall be moved, for the day of Jehovah is coming, for it is near.
Amos 3:6
If the trumpet shall be struck in the city and the people not be terrified? if evil shall be in the city and Jehovah did not?
Ephesians 6:11-18
Put on the complete armor of God, for you to be able to stand against the artifices of the accuser.