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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2For one who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men but to God; for no one understands him, but he utters mysteries in the Spirit. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3On the other hand, the one who prophesies speaks to people for their upbuilding and encouragement and consolation. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4The one who speaks in a tongue builds up himself, but the one who prophesies builds up the church. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Now I want you all to speak in tongues, but even more to prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongues, unless someone interprets, so that the church may be built up. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Now, brothers, if I come to you speaking in tongues, how will I benefit you unless I bring you some revelation or knowledge or prophecy or teaching? |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7If even lifeless instruments, such as the flute or the harp, do not give distinct notes, how will anyone know what is played? |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8And if the bugle gives an indistinct sound, who will get ready for battle? |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9So with yourselves, if with your tongue you utter speech that is not intelligible, how will anyone know what is said? For you will be speaking into the air. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10There are doubtless many different languages in the world, and none is without meaning, |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11but if I do not know the meaning of the language, I will be a foreigner to the speaker and the speaker a foreigner to me. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12So with yourselves, since you are eager for manifestations of the Spirit, strive to excel in building up the church. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Therefore, one who speaks in a tongue should pray that he may interpret. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays but my mind is unfruitful. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15What am I to do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will pray with my mind also; I will sing praise with my spirit, but I will sing with my mind also. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Otherwise, if you give thanks with your spirit, how can anyone in the position of an outsider say “Amen” to your thanksgiving when he does not know what you are saying? |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17For you may be giving thanks well enough, but the other person is not being built up. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Nevertheless, in church I would rather speak five words with my mind in order to instruct others, than ten thousand words in a tongue. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21In the Law it is written, “By people of strange tongues and by the lips of foreigners will I speak to this people, and even then they will not listen to me, says the Lord.” |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Thus tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers, while prophecy is a sign not for unbelievers but for believers. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23If, therefore, the whole church comes together and all speak in tongues, and outsiders or unbelievers enter, will they not say that you are out of your minds? |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or outsider enters, he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all, |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25the secrets of his heart are disclosed, and so, falling on his face, he will worship God and declare that God is really among you. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26What then, brothers? When you come together, each one has a hymn, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. Let all things be done for building up. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27If any speak in a tongue, let there be only two or at most three, and each in turn, and let someone interpret. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28But if there is no one to interpret, let each of them keep silent in church and speak to himself and to God. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others weigh what is said. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30If a revelation is made to another sitting there, let the first be silent. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31For you can all prophesy one by one, so that all may learn and all be encouraged, |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32and the spirits of prophets are subject to prophets. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33For God is not a God of confusion but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints, |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34the women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says. |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35If there is anything they desire to learn, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church. |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36Or was it from you that the word of God came? Or are you the only ones it has reached? |
| 37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37If anyone thinks that he is a prophet, or spiritual, he should acknowledge that the things I am writing to you are a command of the Lord. |
| 38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38If anyone does not recognize this, he is not recognized. |
| 39[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 39So, my brothers, earnestly desire to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues. |
| 40[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 40But all things should be done decently and in order. |
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