1 Corinthians 13:1

1 Corinthians 13:1. Though I speak with the tongues of men. The gift of tongues seems to have been largely possessed and eagerly exercised in the Corinthian church.

and of angels who doubtless have a way of holding mutual communication, though here the reference seems quite general, for ‘the most exalted form of creature utterance.'

and have not love, I am become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal giving forth no real music but mere jumbling sounds.