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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Keep on pursuing love, and keep on desiring spiritual gifts, especially the ability to prophesy. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2For the person who speaks in a foreign language is not actually speaking to people but to God. Indeed, no one understands him, because he is talking about secrets by the Spirit. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3But the person who prophesies speaks to people for their upbuilding, encouragement, and comfort. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4The person who speaks in a foreign language builds himself up, but the person who prophesies builds up the church. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Now I wish that all of you could speak in foreign languages, but especially that you could prophesy. The person who prophesies is more important than the person who speaks in a foreign language, unless he interprets it so that the church may be built up. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Indeed, brothers, if I come to you speaking in foreign languages, what good will I be to you unless I speak to you in some revelation, knowledge, prophecy, or teaching? |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7In the same way, lifeless instruments like the flute or harp produce sounds. But if there's no difference in the notes, how can a person tell what tune is being played? |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8For example, if a bugle doesn't sound a clear call, who will get ready for battle? |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9In the same way, unless you speak an intelligible message with your language, how will anyone know what is being said? You'll be talking into the air! |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10There are, I suppose, many different languages in the world, yet none of them is without meaning. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11If I don't know the meaning of the language, I will be a foreigner to the speaker and the speaker will be a foreigner to me. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12In the same way, since you're so desirous of spiritual gifts, you must keep on desiring them for building up the church. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Therefore, the person who speaks in a foreign language should pray for the ability to interpret it. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14For if I pray in a foreign language, my spirit prays but my mind is not productive. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15What does this mean? I will pray with my spirit, but I will also pray with my mind. I will sing psalms with my spirit, but I will also sing psalms with my mind. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Otherwise, if you say a blessing with your spirit, how can an otherwise uneducated person say "Amen" to your thanksgiving, since he does not know what you're saying? |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17It's good for you to give thanks, but it does not build up the other person. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18I thank God that I speak in foreign languages more than all of you. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19But in church I would rather speak five words with my mind to instruct others than 10,000 words in a foreign language. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Brothers, stop being childish in your thinking. Be like infants with respect to evil, but think like adults. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21In the Law it is written, "By means of foreign languages and through the mouths of foreigners I will speak to this people, but even then they will not listen to me," declares the Lord. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Foreign languages, then, are meant to be a sign, not for believers, but for unbelievers, while prophecy is meant, not for unbelievers, but for believers. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Now if the whole church gathers in the same place and everyone is speaking in foreign languages, when uneducated people or unbelievers come in, they will say that you are out of your mind, won't they? |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24But if everyone is prophesying, when an unbeliever or an uneducated person comes in he will be convicted and examined by everything that's happening. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25His secret, inner heart will become known, and so he will bow down to the ground and worship God, declaring, "God is truly among you!" |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26What, then, does this mean, brothers? When you gather, everyone has a psalm, teaching, revelation, foreign language, or interpretation. Everything must be done for upbuilding. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27If anyone speaks in a foreign language, only two or three at the most should do so, one at a time, and somebody must interpret. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28If an interpreter is not present, the speaker should remain silent in the church and speak to himself and God. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Two or three prophets should speak, and others should weigh carefully what is said. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30If a revelation is made to another person who is seated, the first person should be silent. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31For everyone can prophesy in turn, so that everyone can be instructed and everyone can be encouraged. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32The spirits of prophets are subject to the prophets, |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33for God is not a God of disorder but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints, |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34the women must keep silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak out, but must place themselves in submission, as the oral law also says. |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35If they want to learn anything, they should ask their own husbands at home, for it is inappropriate for a woman to speak out in church. |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36Did God's word originate with you? Are you the only ones it has reached? |
| 37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37If anyone thinks he is a prophet or a spiritual person, he must acknowledge that what I am writing to you is the Lord's command. |
| 38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38But if anyone ignores this, he should be ignored. |
| 39[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 39Therefore, my brothers, desire the ability to prophesy, and do not prevent others from speaking in foreign languages. |
| 40[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 40But everything must be done in a proper and orderly way. |
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