1 Corinthians 14:1-6
THE USE OF SPIRITUAL GIFTS IN PUBLIC WORSHIP. The gift of prophesying greater than that of tongues:... [ Continue Reading ]
THE USE OF SPIRITUAL GIFTS IN PUBLIC WORSHIP. The gift of prophesying greater than that of tongues:... [ Continue Reading ]
FOLLOW AFTER CHARITY, AND DESIRE SPIRITUAL GIFTS, BUT RATHER THAT YE MAY PROPHESY.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR HE THAT SPEAKETH IN AN UNKNOWN TONGUE SPEAKETH NOT UNTO MEN, BUT UNTO GOD; FOR NO MAN UNDERSTANDETH HIM; HOWBEIT IN THE SPIRIT HE SPEAKETH MYSTERIES.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT HE THAT PROPHESIES SPEAKETH UNTO MEN TO EDIFICATION AND EXHORTATION AND COMFORT.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE THAT SPEAKETH IN AN UNKNOWN TONGUE EDIFIES HIMSELF; BUT HE THAT PROPHESIES EDIFIES THE CHURCH.... [ Continue Reading ]
I WOULD THAT YE ALL SPAKE WITH TONGUES, BUT RATHER THAT YE PROPHESIED; FOR GREATER IS HE THAT PROPHESIES THAN HE THAT SPEAKETH WITH TONGUES, EXCEPT HE INTERPRET, THAT THE CHURCH MAY RECEIVE EDIFYING.... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW, BRETHREN, IF I COME UNTO YOU SPEAKING WITH TONGUES, WHAT SHALL I PROFIT YOU, EXCEPT I SHALL SPEAK TO YOU EITHER BY REVELATION, OR BY KNOWLEDGE, OR BY PROPHESYING, OR BY DOCTRINE? In continuing his admonitions, Paul here refers back once more to his great psalm in praise of love: Pursue love! Th... [ Continue Reading ]
AND EVEN THINGS WITHOUT LIFE, GIVING SOUND, WHETHER PIPE OR HARP, EXCEPT THEY GIVE A DISTINCTION IN THE SOUNDS, HOW SHALL IT BE KNOWN WHAT IS PIPED OR HARPED?... [ Continue Reading ]
Public utterance is valueless without clear understanding:... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR IF THE TRUMPET GIVE AN UNCERTAIN SOUND, WHO SHALL PREPARE HIMSELF TO THE BATTLE?... [ Continue Reading ]
SO LIKEWISE YE, EXCEPT YE UTTER BY THE TONGUE WORDS EASY TO BE UNDERSTOOD, HOW SHALL IT BE KNOWN WHAT IS SPOKEN? FOR YE SHALL SPEAK INTO THE AIR.... [ Continue Reading ]
THERE ARE, IT MAY BE, SO MANY KINDS OF VOICES IN THE WORLD, AND NONE OF THEM IS WITHOUT SIGNIFICATION.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEREFORE, IF I KNOW NOT THE MEANING OF THE VOICE, I SHALL BE UNTO HIM THAT SPEAKETH A BARBARIAN, AND HE THAT SPEAKETH SHALL BE A BARBARIAN UNTO ME.... [ Continue Reading ]
EVEN SO YE, FORASMUCH AS YE ARE ZEALOUS OF SPIRITUAL GIFTS, SEEK THAT YE MAY EXCEL TO THE EDIFYING OF THE CHURCH.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREFORE, LET HIM THAT SPEAKETH IN AN UNKNOWN TONGUE PRAY THAT HE MAY INTERPRET. The apostle here draws an inference from the lesser to the greater: Likewise lifeless things, though they give forth sound, such as the flute or the harp, yet unless there is a distinction in their tones or sounds, how... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR IF I PRAY IN AN UNKNOWN TONGUE, MY SPIRIT PRAYETH, BUT MY UNDERSTANDING IS UNFRUITFUL.... [ Continue Reading ]
Only through the understanding of the hearer does the utterance of the Spirit result in edification:... [ Continue Reading ]
WHAT IS IT THEN? I WILL PRAY WITH THE SPIRIT, AND I WILL PRAY WITH THE UNDERSTANDING ALSO; I WILL SING WITH THE SPIRIT, AND I WILL SING WITH THE UNDERSTANDING ALSO.... [ Continue Reading ]
ELSE WHEN THOU SHALT BLESS WITH THE SPIRIT, HOW SHALL HE THAT OCCUPIES THE ROOM OF THE UNLEARNED SAY AMEN AT THY GIVING OF THANKS, SEEING HE UNDERSTANDETH NOT WHAT THOU SAYEST?... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THOU VERILY GIVEST THANKS WELL, BUT THE OTHER IS NOT EDIFIED.... [ Continue Reading ]
I THANK MY GOD, I SPEAK WITH TONGUES MORE THAN YE ALL;... [ Continue Reading ]
YET IN THE CHURCH I HAD RATHER SPEAK FIVE WORDS WITH MY UNDERSTANDING, THAT BY MY VOICE I MIGHT TEACH OTHERS ALSO, THAN TEN THOUSAND WORDS IN AN UNKNOWN TONGUE.... [ Continue Reading ]
BRETHREN, BE NOT CHILDREN IN UNDERSTANDING; HOWBEIT IN MALICE BE YE CHILDREN, BUT IN UNDERSTANDING BE MEN. Since the purpose of every function in public worship is to be of spiritual benefit to the attendants, therefore the gift of tongues must be considered of secondary value: For if I pray with a... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THE LAW IT IS WRITTEN, WITH MEN OF OTHER TONGUES AND OTHER LIPS WILL I SPEAK UNTO THIS PEOPLE; AND YET FOR ALL THAT WILL THEY NOT HEAR ME, SAITH THE LORD.... [ Continue Reading ]
Strange tongues may become dangerous:... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREFORE TONGUES ARE FOR A SIGN, NOT TO THEM THAT BELIEVE, BUT TO THEM THAT BELIEVE NOT; BUT PROPHESYING SERVETH NOT FOR THEM THAT BELIEVE NOT, BUT FOR THEM WHICH BELIEVE.... [ Continue Reading ]
IF, THEREFORE, THE WHOLE CHURCH BE COME TOGETHER INTO ONE PLACE, AND ALL SPEAK WITH TONGUES, AND THERE COME IN THOSE THAT ARE UNLEARNED, OR UNBELIEVERS, WILL THEY NOT SAY THAT YE ARE MAD?... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT IF ALL PROPHESY, AND THERE COME IN ONE THAT BELIEVETH NOT, OR ONE UNLEARNED, HE IS CONVINCED OF ALL, HE IS JUDGED OF ALL;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THUS ARE THE SECRETS OF HIS HEART MADE MANIFEST; AND SO, FALLING DOWN ON HIS FACE, HE WILL WORSHIP GOD, AND REPORT THAT GOD IS IN YOU OF A TRUTH. To give the Corinthians the right understanding of the gift of tongues, Paul now introduces a Scripture-passage: In the Law, in the book of the Old Te... [ Continue Reading ]
HOW IS IT, THEN, BRETHREN? WHEN YE COME TOGETHER, EVERY ONE OF YOU HATH A PSALM, HATH A DOCTRINE, HATH A TONGUE, HATH A REVELATION, HATH AN INTERPRETATION. LET ALL THINGS BE DONE UNTO EDIFYING:... [ Continue Reading ]
The practical application of these truths in public worship:... [ Continue Reading ]
IF ANY MAN SPEAK IN AN UNKNOWN TONGUE, LET IT BE BY TWO OR, AT THE MOST, BY THREE, AND THAT BY COURSE; AND LET ONE INTERPRET.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT IF THERE BE NO INTERPRETER, LET HIM KEEP SILENCE IN THE CHURCH; AND LET HIM SPEAK TO HIMSELF AND TO GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
LET THE PROPHETS SPEAK TWO OR THREE, AND LET THE OTHER JUDGE.... [ Continue Reading ]
IF ANYTHING BE REVEALED TO ANOTHER THAT SITTETH BY, LET THE FIRST HOLD HIS PEACE.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR YE MAY ALL PROPHESY ONE BY ONE, THAT ALL MAY LEARN AND ALL MAY BE COMFORTED.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE SPIRITS OF THE PROPHETS ARE SUBJECT TO THE PROPHETS.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR GOD IS NOT THE AUTHOR OF CONFUSION, BUT OF PEACE, AS IN ALL CHURCHES OF THE SAINTS. The apostle here gives instructions about the arrangements of services, in order that his purpose of edification of the congregation may best be accomplished. What was to be done in Corinth, and what, all things... [ Continue Reading ]
LET YOUR WOMEN KEEP SILENCE IN THE CHURCHES; FOR IT IS NOT PERMITTED UNTO THEM TO SPEAK, BUT THEY ARE COMMANDED TO BE UNDER OBEDIENCE, AS ALSO SAITH THE LAW.... [ Continue Reading ]
Final regulations:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IF THEY WILL LEARN ANYTHING, LET THEM ASK THEIR HUSBANDS AT HOME; FOR IT IS A SHAME FOR WOMEN TO SPEAK IN THE CHURCH.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHAT? CAME THE WORD OF GOD OUT FROM YOU? OR CAME IT UNTO YOU ONLY?... [ Continue Reading ]
IF ANY MAN THINK HIMSELF TO BE A PROPHET OR SPIRITUAL, LET HIM ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE THINGS THAT I WRITE UNTO YOU ARE THE COMMANDMENTS OF THE LORD.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT IF ANY MAN BE IGNORANT, LET HIM BE IGNORANT.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREFORE, BRETHREN, COVET TO PROPHESY, AND FORBID NOT TO SPEAK WITH TONGUES.... [ Continue Reading ]
LET ALL THINGS BE DONE DECENTLY AND IN ORDER. Both Greek and Roman as well as Jewish custom forbade the public appearance of women, especially their participation in public speaking. It seems that the Christian women of Corinth had a wrong idea of the meaning of Christian liberty, assuming that the... [ Continue Reading ]