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1 Corinthians 14:11Pursue love and be eager for the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Tim 4:141 Cor 14:391 Cor 16:141 Cor 12:11 Thess 5:20Heb 12:141 Cor 14:3-51 Cor 13:13Prov 15:91 Pet 3:11-13

1 Corinthians 14:22For the one speaking in a tongue does not speak to people but to God, for no one understands; he is speaking mysteries by the Spirit.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mark 16:17Acts 10:46Acts 19:6Acts 2:4-111 Cor 13:21 Cor 2:101 Cor 14:9-11Col 1:26-27Eph 3:3-91 Cor 14:18-23

1 Corinthians 14:33But the one who prophesies speaks to people for their strengthening, encouragement, and consolation.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 14:121 Tim 4:13Jude 1:202 Tim 4:2Eph 6:221 Cor 14:26Rom 14:19Titus 1:91 Cor 14:311 Thess 5:11-14

1 Corinthians 14:44The one who speaks in a tongue builds himself up, but the one who prophesies builds up the church.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 14:221 Cor 14:26Mark 16:171 Cor 14:17-191 Cor 14:31 Cor 13:21 Cor 14:121 Cor 14:5Rom 14:19

1 Corinthians 14:55I wish you all spoke in tongues, but even more that you would prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongues, unless he interprets so that the church may be strengthened.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 12:101 Cor 12:28-301 Cor 13:1Mark 16:17Num 11:28-291 Cor 14:3-41 Cor 13:41 Cor 14:11 Cor 14:12-131 Cor 14:18-40

1 Corinthians 14:66Now, brothers and sisters, if I come to you speaking in tongues, how will I help you unless I speak to you with a revelation or with knowledge or prophecy or teaching?Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eph 1:172 Tim 3:16Rom 6:171 Cor 14:11 Cor 14:26-302 John 1:92 Pet 3:18Heb 13:91 Cor 10:331 Cor 12:7-8

1 Corinthians 14:77It is similar for lifeless things that make a sound, like a flute or harp. Unless they make a distinction in the notes, how can what is played on the flute or harp be understood?Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 13:11 Cor 14:8Num 10:2-10Luke 7:32Matt 11:17

1 Corinthians 14:88If, for example, the trumpet makes an unclear sound, who will get ready for battle?Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 10:9Ezek 33:3-6Jer 4:19Amos 3:6Isa 27:13Job 39:24-25Joel 2:1Neh 4:18-21Eph 6:11-18Josh 6:4-20

1 Corinthians 14:99It is the same for you. If you do not speak clearly with your tongue, how will anyone know what is being said? For you will be speaking into the air.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 9:26

1 Corinthians 14:1010There are probably many kinds of languages in the world, and none is without meaning.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

1 Corinthians 14:1111If then I do not know the meaning of a language, I will be a foreigner to the speaker and the speaker a foreigner to me.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 28:21 Cor 14:21Acts 28:4Col 3:11Rom 1:14

1 Corinthians 14:1212It is the same with you. Since you are eager for manifestations of the Spirit, seek to abound in order to strengthen the church.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 14:261 Cor 12:311 Cor 14:3-41 Cor 14:11 Cor 12:7Titus 2:14

1 Corinthians 14:1313So then, one who speaks in a tongue should pray that he may interpret.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 14:13-14Mark 11:241 Cor 12:30Acts 1:141 Cor 12:101 Cor 14:27-28Acts 4:29-31Acts 8:15

1 Corinthians 14:1414If I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unproductive.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 14:21 Cor 14:15-161 Cor 14:19

1 Corinthians 14:1515What should I do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will also pray with my mind. I will sing praises with my spirit, but I will also sing praises with my mind.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Col 3:16Eph 6:18Eph 5:17-20John 4:23-24Jude 1:20Ps 47:7Rom 12:1-21 Cor 14:191 Cor 10:19Phil 1:18

1 Corinthians 14:1616Otherwise, if you are praising God with your spirit, how can someone without the gift say “Amen” to your thanksgiving, since he does not know what you are saying?Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Chr 16:36Ps 106:48Rev 5:141 Cor 11:24Deut 27:15-26Jer 28:6Neh 8:6Num 5:22Rev 7:121 Cor 1:4-8

1 Corinthians 14:1717For you are certainly giving thanks well, but the other person is not strengthened.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 14:41 Cor 14:6

1 Corinthians 14:1818I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 1:4-61 Cor 4:7

1 Corinthians 14:1919but in the church I want to speak five words with my mind to instruct others, rather than ten thousand words in a tongue.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 14:21-221 Cor 14:4

1 Corinthians 14:2020Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking. Instead, be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 13:111 Pet 2:2Rom 16:19Matt 18:31 Cor 2:62 Pet 3:18Eph 4:14-15Phil 1:9Mark 10:15Phil 3:15

1 Corinthians 14:2121It is written in the law: “By people with strange tongues and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people, yet not even in this way will they listen to me,” says the Lord.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 28:11-12Jer 5:15Deut 28:49

1 Corinthians 14:2222So then, tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers. Prophecy, however, is not for unbelievers but for believers.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 2:6-12Mark 16:171 Tim 1:91 Cor 14:1Acts 2:32-36

1 Corinthians 14:2323So if the whole church comes together and all speak in tongues, and unbelievers or uninformed people enter, will they not say that you have lost your minds?Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 2:131 Cor 11:18Acts 26:24Hos 9:7John 10:20

1 Corinthians 14:2424But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or uninformed person enters, he will be convicted by all, he will be called to account by all.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 2:37Heb 4:12-131 Cor 2:15John 4:29John 1:47-49

1 Corinthians 14:2525The secrets of his heart are disclosed, and in this way he will fall down with his face to the ground and worship God, declaring, “God is really among you.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 45:14Zech 8:23Deut 9:18Gen 44:14Isa 60:14Luke 17:16Luke 5:8Ps 72:11Rev 5:8Luke 8:28

1 Corinthians 14:2626What should you do then, brothers and sisters? When you come together, each one has a song, has a lesson, has a revelation, has a tongue, has an interpretation. Let all these things be done for the strengthening of the church.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eph 5:191 Cor 12:7-10Rom 14:191 Thess 5:11Eph 4:161 Cor 14:12-13Eph 4:291 Cor 14:402 Cor 12:192 Cor 13:10

1 Corinthians 14:2727If someone speaks in a tongue, it should be two, or at the most three, one after the other, and someone must interpret.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 14:26

1 Corinthians 14:2828But if there is no interpreter, he should be silent in the church. Let him speak to himself and to God.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

1 Corinthians 14:2929Two or three prophets should speak and the others should evaluate what is said.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 12:101 Thess 5:19-211 John 4:1-31 Cor 14:39

1 Corinthians 14:3030And if someone sitting down receives a revelation, the person who is speaking should conclude.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Thess 5:19-20Job 32:11Job 33:31-331 Cor 14:261 Cor 14:6Job 32:15-20

1 Corinthians 14:3131For you can all prophesy one after another, so all can learn and be encouraged.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 14:31 Thess 5:111 Thess 5:141 Cor 14:191 Cor 14:351 Thess 4:182 Cor 1:42 Cor 7:6-7Eph 6:22Prov 1:5

1 Corinthians 14:3232Indeed, the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 John 4:1Acts 4:19-201 Cor 14:29-301 Sam 10:10-131 Sam 19:19-242 Kgs 2:32 Kgs 2:5Jer 20:9Job 32:8-11

1 Corinthians 14:3333for God is not characterized by disorder but by peace. As in all the churches of the saints,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jas 3:17-181 Cor 14:402 Thess 3:16Gal 5:221 Cor 11:16Heb 13:201 Cor 7:17Rom 15:331 Cor 7:15Luke 2:14

1 Corinthians 14:3434the women should be silent in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak. Rather, let them be in submission, as in fact the law says.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Tim 2:11-12Gen 3:16Num 30:3-131 Cor 14:35Col 3:18Titus 2:51 Cor 11:51 Pet 3:1-61 Cor 11:3Eph 5:22-24

1 Corinthians 14:3535If they want to find out about something, they should ask their husbands at home, because it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in church.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 3:7Eph 5:12Eph 5:25-271 Cor 11:141 Cor 11:61 Cor 14:34

1 Corinthians 14:3636Did the word of God begin with you, or did it come to you alone?Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 4:71 Thess 1:82 Cor 10:13-16Acts 13:1-3Acts 15:35-36Acts 16:9-10Acts 17:1Acts 17:10-11Acts 17:15Acts 18:1-17

1 Corinthians 14:3737If anyone considers himself a prophet or spiritual person, he should acknowledge that what I write to you is the Lord’s command.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 John 4:62 Cor 10:72 Pet 3:2Jude 1:171 Thess 4:1-81 Cor 13:1-31 Cor 7:251 Cor 8:22 Cor 10:122 Cor 11:12-15

1 Corinthians 14:3838If someone does not recognize this, he is not recognized.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Tim 4:3-41 Tim 6:3-5Matt 7:6Rev 22:11-12Hos 4:17Matt 15:14

1 Corinthians 14:3939So then, brothers and sisters, be eager to prophesy, and do not forbid anyone from speaking in tongues.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 12:311 Cor 14:11 Thess 5:201 Cor 14:24-251 Cor 14:31 Cor 14:5

1 Corinthians 14:4040And do everything in a decent and orderly manner.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Col 2:5Titus 1:51 Cor 14:26-331 Cor 11:34Rom 13:13

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