1 Corinthians 14
V12 "Since you are eager to have spiritual gifts, try to excel in gifts that build up the church."
The speaking of tongues is always controversial, but so is everything else in the Bible if you do not study it out correctly.
"Very well then, with foreign lips and strange tongues
God will speak to this people," Isaiah 28:11
"All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them." Acts 2:4
"(both Jews and converts to Judaism); Cretans and Arabs-we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!" Acts 2:11
Tongues are languages from the different ethnicity in this world.
It is not just the language, but the expressions through the language as each people in their ethnicity has been accustomed to it.
If we reference all the words "tongues" or "tongue" in the scriptures, a clear picture of what it actually means will surface.
Let us "excel in gifts that build up the church."
To God be the Glory.
