speaks in tongues, and some who do not understand or some unbelievers come in, will they not say that you are out of your mind? NIV The way the Corinthians were speaking in tongues was helping no one. If the whole church comes together and everyone speaks in tongues, the result will be chaotic noise. (Such disorderliness may have been the case, considering Paul’s further instructions in 14:27–28.) Even if they were speaking one at a time, without interpretation of the words spoken, other believers