Parallel Verses
New Heart English Bible
For if the trumpet gave an uncertain sound, who would 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?
Julia Smith Translation
For also if the trumpet give an uncertain voice, who shall prepare himself for war?
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?
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 Even things without life, giving a voice, whether pipe or harp, if they did not give a distinction in the sounds, how would it be known what is piped or harped? 8 For if the trumpet gave an uncertain sound, who would prepare himself for war? 9 So also you, unless you uttered by the tongue words easy to understand, how would it be known what is spoken? For you would be speaking into the air.
Cross References
Numbers 10:9
When you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets. Then you will be remembered before the LORD your God, and you will be saved from your enemies.
Jeremiah 4:19
My anguish, my anguish. I am pained at my very heart; my heart is disquieted in me; I can't hold my peace; because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
Joshua 6:4-20
Seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark. On the seventh day, you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets.
Judges 7:16-18
He divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put into the hands of all of them trumpets, and empty pitchers, with torches within the pitchers.
Nehemiah 4:18-21
and the builders, everyone wore his sword at his side, and so built. He who sounded the trumpet was by me.
Job 39:24-25
He eats up the ground with fierceness and rage, neither does he stand still at the sound of the trumpet.
Isaiah 27:13
It will happen in that day that a great trumpet will be blown; and those who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and those who were outcasts in the land of Egypt, shall come; and they will worship the LORD in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 33:3-6
if, when he sees the sword come on the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;
Joel 2:1
Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm on my holy mountain. Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the LORD is coming, for it is near.
Amos 3:6
Does the trumpet alarm sound in a city, without the people being afraid? Does disaster happen to a city, unless the LORD has done it?
Ephesians 6:11-18
Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.