For ye may all prophesy... and all may be comforted. All the prophets can exhort in their turn, if only the method and order laid down above be observed, and so all can receive exhortation and consolation. The word for "may be comforted" occurs again in 2Cor. i. 6. Some take it as active, when the meaning becomes, "that all may learn when they hear, and may teach when they speak and exhort."
Verse 31. _FOR YE MAY ALL PROPHESY ONE BY ONE_] The gifts which God grants are given for the purpose of edification; but there can be no edification where there is confusion; therefore let them speak...
FOR YE MAY ALL PROPHECY ... - There is time enough for all; there is no need of speaking in confusion and disorder. Every person may have an opportunity of expressing his sentiments at the proper time...
4. PROPHECY AND SPEAKING WITH A TONGUE. CHAPTER 14 _ 1. Prophecy the better gift. (1 Corinthians 14:1 .)_ 2. Intelligibility demanded. (1 Corinthians 14:14 .) 3. Practical instructions for the publ...
Paul now lays down the rules. At present at their assemblies all are eager to speak in one way or another. But the edification of the Church is to be the governing principle. Two may speak in tongues,...
THE FALSE AND THE TRUE WORSHIP (1 Corinthians 14:1-19)...
What then emerges from all this, brothers? Whenever you meet together, let each have his psalm, let each have his teaching, let each have his message direct from God, let each have his tongue, let eac...
MAY. can. ONE BY ONE. Greek. _kath_. (App-104.) _hena._...
_For ye may all prophesy one by one_ Not necessarily at _the same_meeting of the Church, which would be in contradiction to what has just been said (1 Corinthians 14:29), nor that the permission was e...
Regulations to insure decency and order 26. _hath a psalm_ The Apostle here reproves another fault. Not only are the Corinthians ambitious rather of the gifts which attract attention, than of those wh...
REGULATIONS TO INSURE DECENCY AND ORDER...
ΚΑΘ' ἝΝΑ. Not necessarily at _the same_ meeting of the Church, which would be in contradiction to what has just been said (1 Corinthians 14:29), nor that the permission was extended to the whole Chris...
_THE PROPER USE OF SPIRITUAL GIFTS -- 1 CORINTHIANS 14:26-40:_ Paul wanted it understood that when the church met for worship that everything that was done must be done for the good of all that were p...
ΚΑΘ' ΈΝ (G2596; G1520) один за другим; распределительное использование _предл._ (МТ, 268). ΜΑΝΘΆΝΩΣΙΝ _praes. conj. act. от_ ΜΑΝΘΆΝΩ (G3129) учиться. _Conj._ с ΪΝ (G2443) выражает цель, ΠΑΡΑΚΑΛΙΌΝΤΑ...
THAT ALL MAY LEARN,— _Yet so as all may learn._...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Rules For Using Spiritual Gifts_ (20-40) _Text_ 1 Corinthians 14:20-40. Brethren, be not children in mind: yet in malice be ye babes, but in mind be men. 21 In the law it is wr...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 3 Perfecting With Decorum and Decency (1 Corinthians 14:26-40) 26 What then, brethren? When you come together, each one has a hymn, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue, or an...
For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted. FOR YE MAY - rather, 'For ye can (if you will) all prophesy one by one,' giving way to one another. The "for", jus...
24 Predicting, or foretelling, is not necessarily involved in the gift of prophecy. The prophet, in Scripture, is the mouthpiece or spokesman of God. He may speak of the past, the present, or the futu...
COMFORTED] i.e. encouraged, exhorted....
_(e) Spiritual Gifts (iii) The Gift of Tongues subordinate to Prophecy_ The Apostle in this chapter deals with the abuse of the gift of tongues which characterised the Corinthians, and declares that i...
SERVANTS OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 14 *PROPHECY AND TONGUES 14:1-40 1. THE EFFECT OF *PROPHECY 14:1-5 V1 Follow the way of love. You should be eager to have the gifts of th...
FOR YE MAY ALL PROPHESY ONE BY ONE. — Better, _For it is in your power all to prophesy one by one._ How it is in their power is explained by the following verse. This orderly prophesying will accompli...
CHAPTER 20 SPIRITUAL GIFTS AND PUBLIC WORSHIP Is the first twenty-five verses of this chapter Paul gives his estimate of the comparative value of the two chief spiritual gifts: speaking with tongues...
§ 48. SELF-CONTROL IN RELIGIOUS EXERCISES. The enquiry of the Cor [2142] as to whether Tongues or Prophecy is the charism more to be coveted is now disposed of. P. supplements his answer by giving in...
By economy of time, every one who has the prophetic gift may exercise it in turn; so the Church will enjoy, in variety of exhortation, the full benefit of the powers of the Spirit conferred on all its...
ORDER OF CHURCH SERVICES 1 Corinthians 14:26 Again the Apostle sums up his directions in two simple rules: 1. _Let all things be done unto edifying;_ that is, to building up individual character, and...
The apostle now submitted certain gifts to the test of love. Prophesying is desirable because it edifies others. Then as to Tongues. It was a gift that enabled men to speak to God, perhaps in prayer,...
Orderly Worship It seems there was a large group of Christians desiring to participate in the worship. There were apparently several who possessed each of the gifts. Paul knew it was the Lord's will t...
Two or three, who have the gift of prophecy, may speak by turns in one of these assemblies, and the rest of the prophet shall judge, whether he be truly inspired, and speak good doctrine. --- If any t...
VERS. 31-33A. “For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted. 32. And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets. 33a. For God is not a God of confusion...
(23) 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? (24) But...
As usual, the introductory words (1 Corinthians 1:1-3) of the epistle give us no little intimation of that which is to follow. The apostle speaks of himself as such "called [to be] an apostle of Jesus...
31._You can all, one by one. _In the first place, when he says _all_, he does not include believers universally, but only those that were endowed with this gift. Farther, he does not mean that all oug...
Two Verses in this Chapter 14 demand a little attention (1 Corinthians 14:1-2 the 3rd and the 6th (1 Corinthians 14:3; 1 Corinthians 14:6). Verse 3 ...
FOR YE MAY ALL PROPHESY ONE BY ONE,.... Not every member of the church, but everyone that had the gift of prophecy; so that they were not confined to two or three prophets at a meeting, but as many as...
For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted. Ver. 31. _That all may learn_] The most learned may learn something by the discourses of others less learned than the...
_Let the prophets speak_ In succession; _two or three_ And not more, at one meeting; _and let the others judge_ And compare one doctrine with another for the further improvement of all. Or, the sense...
YE MAY ALL PROPHESY; each may speak in his turn, and thus all be benefited....
FOR YE MAY ALL PROPHESY ONE BY ONE, THAT ALL MAY LEARN AND ALL MAY BE COMFORTED....
The practical application of these truths in public worship:...
Chapter 12 has shown the placing of every gift in its own place in the body by the Spirit of God. Chapter 13 insists on love as the pervading influence for unity and peace in the functioning of the bo...
FOR YE ALL CAN PROPHESY ONE BY ONE, THAT ALL MAY LEARN, AND ALL MAY BE EXHORTED; 'one by one' -'one after another' (Beck) 'ALL MAY LEARN..ALL MAY BE EXHORTED' -God felt that even inspired men needed...
26-33 Religious exercises in public assemblies should have this view; Let all be done to edifying. As to the speaking in an unknown tongue, if another were present who could interpret, two miraculous...
Ye may not all prophesy in the same day, or hour, or moment of time, but orderly and successively YE MAY ALL PROPHESY, the end of it being for the instruction and consolation of all; which may mind yo...
For ye all can prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be exhorted;...
Genuine Acts of Peter of Alexandria He thus protesting, all who were present, being struck with terror, like men dumb, kept silence. Moreover they suspected that he, not without some divine notificat...
1 Corinthians 14:31 For G1063 can G1410 (G5736) all G3956 prophesy G4395 (G5721) one G2596 G1520 that
'But if a revelation be made to another sitting by, let the first keep silence. For you all can prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be exhorted, and the spirits of the prophets are su...
THE USE OF SPIRITUAL GIFTS IN THE GATHERINGS OF GOD'S PEOPLE (14:1-40). Having raised us up to heaven Paul now brings us abruptly back to earth as he continues to advise on the use of spiritual gifts....
1 Corinthians 14:31. FOR YE ALL MAY PROPHESY ONE BY ONE who possess that gift, THAT ALL MAY HE COMFORTED (see 1 Corinthians 14:3)....
ONE BY ONE (καθ' ενα). Regular idiom....
CONTENTS: Prophecy and speaking in tongues. The order of the ministry of this gift in the church. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Paul. CONCLUSION: That is the best and most eligible gift which best an...
What is the subject of this chapter? Does it refer to the constant manner in which worship was conducted in the primitive churches; or does it refer to the manner in which men possessed of secondary g...
ALL OF YOU. Those who speak God's message (1 Corinthians 14:29). ONE BY ONE. Only one speaking at a time. [All the prophets would have their turn, but only two or three at any one meeting. The "best s...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 1 Corinthians 14:1. FOLLOW AFTER.—Taking up the thought of a “way,” 1 Corinthians 12:31; as this whole verse resumes the theme of 12, after the digression or episode of 13 “_Pursue_”...
EXPOSITION 1 CORINTHIANS 14:1 _The_ _gift of preaching superior to the gift_ _tongues_. 1 CORINTHIANS 14:1 FOLLOW AFTER CHARITY; literally, _chase; pursue. _The word is one of whi
So Paul exhorts, Follow after love and desire spiritual (1 Corinthians 14:1), But rather, that you may prophecy. We were told to covet earnestly the best gifts. Now, again, he is saying the same thi...
1 Corinthians 14:19; 1 Corinthians 14:3; 1 Corinthians 14:35; 1 Thessalonians 4:18;...
TALKING IN TONGUES 1 Corinthians 14:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The need for spiritual guidance in the matter of tongues. The church of today is beset by a group of people who very dogmatically assert t...
All — Who have that gift. That all may learn — Both by speaking and by hearing....