Tongues: see the comments on 1 Cor. 14.2 and elsewhere in this chapter.

Good News Bible‘s “much” is not in the text and is unnecessary in translation. The verse means that Paul has the gift of ecstatic speech in greater measure than his readers.

Quoted with permission from Ellingworth, Paul and Hatton, Howard A. A Handbook on Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians, 2nd edition. (UBS Handbook Series). New York: UBS, 1985/1994. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .