1 Corinthians 14:6

American Standard Version (1901)

But now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, unless I speak to you either by way of revelation, or of knowledge, or of prophesying, or of teaching?

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  • Eph 1:17 : 17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;
  • Rom 6:17 : 17 But thanks be to God, that, whereas ye were servants of sin, ye became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto ye were delivered;
  • Rom 15:14 : 14 And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.
  • Rom 16:17 : 17 Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them that are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which ye learned: and turn away from them.
  • 1 Cor 10:33 : 33 even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the [profit] of the many, that they may be saved.
  • 1 Cor 12:7-8 : 7 But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit to profit withal. 8 For to one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom; and to another the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit:
  • 1 Cor 13:2-3 : 2 And if I have [the gift of] prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 And if I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor], and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing.
  • 1 Cor 13:8-9 : 8 Love never faileth: but whether [there be] prophecies, they shall be done away; whether [there be] tongues, they shall cease; whether [there be] knowledge, it shall be done away. 9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;
  • 1 Cor 14:1 : 1 Follow after love; yet desire earnestly spiritual [gifts], but rather that ye may prophesy.
  • 1 Cor 14:26-30 : 26 What is it then, brethren? When ye come together, each one hath a psalm, hath a teaching, hath a revelation, hath a tongue, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying. 27 If any man speaketh in a tongue, [let it be] by two, or at the most three, and [that] in turn; and let one interpret: 28 but if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God. 29 And let the prophets speak [by] two or three, and let the others discern. 30 But if a revelation be made to another sitting by, let the first keep silence.
  • 2 Cor 11:6 : 6 But though [I be] rude in speech, yet [am I] not in knowledge; nay, in every way have we made [this] manifest unto you in all things.
  • 2 Cor 12:1 : 1 I must needs glory, though it is not expedient; but I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
  • 2 Cor 12:7 : 7 And by reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted overmuch, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, that I should not be exalted overmuch.
  • Eph 3:4 : 4 whereby, when ye read, ye can perceive my understanding in the mystery of Christ;
  • Phil 3:15 : 15 Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, be thus minded: and if in anything ye are otherwise minded, this also shall God reveal unto you:
  • 2 Tim 2:14 : 14 Of these things put them in remembrance, charging [them] in the sight of the Lord, that they strive not about words, to no profit, to the subverting of them that hear.
  • 2 Tim 3:10 : 10 But thou didst follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, patience,
  • 2 Tim 3:16 : 16 Every scripture inspired of God [is] also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in righteousness.
  • 2 Tim 4:2 : 2 preach the word; be urgent in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.
  • Titus 3:8 : 8 Faithful is the saying, and concerning these things I desire that thou affirm confidently, to the end that they who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men:
  • Heb 13:9 : 9 Be not carried away by divers and strange teachings: for it is good that the heart be established by grace; not by meats, wherein they that occupied themselves were not profited.
  • 2 Pet 1:5 : 5 Yea, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply virtue; and in [your] virtue knowledge;
  • 2 Pet 3:18 : 18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him [be] the glory both now and for ever. Amen.
  • 2 John 1:9 : 9 Whosoever goeth onward and abideth not in the teaching of Christ, hath not God: he that abideth in the teaching, the same hath both the Father and the Son.
  • 1 Sam 12:21 : 21 and turn ye not aside; for [then would ye go] after vain things which cannot profit nor deliver, for they are vain.
  • Jer 16:19 : 19 O Jehovah, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, unto thee shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have inherited nought but lies, [even] vanity and things wherein there is no profit.
  • Jer 23:32 : 32 Behold, I am against them that prophesy lying dreams, saith Jehovah, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting: yet I sent them not, nor commanded them; neither do they profit this people at all, saith Jehovah.
  • Matt 11:25 : 25 At that season Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou didst hide these things from the wise and understanding, and didst reveal them unto babes: [
  • Matt 16:17 : 17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jonah: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father who is in heaven.
  • Matt 16:26 : 26 For what shall a man be profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and forfeit his life? or what shall a man give in exchange for his life?
  • Acts 2:42 : 42 And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread and the prayers.

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  • 1 Cor 14:1-5
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    1 Follow after love; yet desire earnestly spiritual [gifts], but rather that ye may prophesy.

    2 For he that speaketh in a tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God; for no man understandeth; but in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.

    3 But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men edification, and exhortation, and consolation.

    4 He that speaketh in a tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church.

    5 Now I would have you all speak with tongues, but rather that ye should prophesy: and greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.

  • 1 Cor 14:7-28
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    7 Even things without life, giving a voice, whether pipe or harp, if they give not a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?

    8 For if the trumpet give an uncertain voice, who shall prepare himself for war?

    9 So also ye, unless ye utter by the tongue speech easy to understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye will be speaking into the air.

    10 There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and no [kind] is without signification.

    11 If then I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be to him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh will be a barbarian unto me.

    12 So also ye, since ye are zealous of spiritual [gifts], seek that ye may abound unto the edifying of the church.

    13 Wherefore let him that speaketh in a tongue pray that he may interpret.

    14 For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.

    15 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.

    16 Else if thou bless with the spirit, how shall he that filleth the place of the unlearned say the Amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he knoweth not what thou sayest?

    17 For thou verily givest thanks well, but the other is not edified.

    18 I thank God, I speak with tongues more than you all:

    19 howbeit in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue.

    20 Brethren, be not children in mind: yet in malice be ye babes, but in mind be men.

    21 In the law it is written, By men of strange tongues and by the lips of strangers will I speak unto this people; and not even thus will they hear me, saith the Lord.

    22 Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to the unbelieving: but prophesying [is for a sign], not to the unbelieving, but to them that believe.

    23 If therefore the whole church be assembled together and all speak with tongues, and there come in men unlearned or unbelieving, will they not say that ye are mad?

    24 But if all prophesy, and there come in one unbelieving or unlearned, he is reproved by all, he is judged by all;

    25 the secrets of his heart are made manifest; and so he will fall down on his face and worship God, declaring that God is among you indeed.

    26 What is it then, brethren? When ye come together, each one hath a psalm, hath a teaching, hath a revelation, hath a tongue, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.

    27 If any man speaketh in a tongue, [let it be] by two, or at the most three, and [that] in turn; and let one interpret:

    28 but if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.

  • 1 Cor 14:38-40
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    38 But if any man is ignorant, let him be ignorant.

    39 Wherefore, my brethren, desire earnestly to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.

    40 But let all things be done decently and in order.

  • 1 Cor 13:1-3
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    1 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

    2 And if I have [the gift of] prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

    3 And if I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor], and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing.

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    1 Now concerning spiritual [gifts], brethren, I would not have you ignorant.

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    36 What? was it from you that the word of God went forth? or came it unto you alone?

  • 1 Cor 4:19
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    19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will; and I will know, not the word of them that are puffed up, but the power.

  • 1 Cor 2:1
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    1 And I, brethren, when I came unto you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.

  • 1 Cor 12:10
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    10 and to another workings of miracles; and to another prophecy; and to another discernings of spirits; to another [divers] kinds of tongues; and to another the interpretation of tongues: [

  • 1 Cor 12:30-31
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    30 have all gifts of healings? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?

    31 But desire earnestly the greater gifts. And moreover a most excellent way show I unto you.

  • 2 Cor 12:1
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    1 I must needs glory, though it is not expedient; but I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

  • 1 Cor 14:31
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    31 For ye all can prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be exhorted;

  • 1 Cor 1:17
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    17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not in wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made void.

  • 1 Cor 13:8
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    8 Love never faileth: but whether [there be] prophecies, they shall be done away; whether [there be] tongues, they shall cease; whether [there be] knowledge, it shall be done away.

  • 1 Cor 12:7
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    7 But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit to profit withal.

  • Isa 28:11
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    11 Nay, but by [men of] strange lips and with another tongue will he speak to this people;

  • 2 Cor 11:6
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    6 But though [I be] rude in speech, yet [am I] not in knowledge; nay, in every way have we made [this] manifest unto you in all things.

  • 1 Cor 4:6
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    6 Now these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes; that in us ye might learn not [to go] beyond the things which are written; that no one of you be puffed up for the one against the other.

  • 1 Cor 2:13
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    13 Which things also we speak, not in words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Spirit teacheth; combining spiritual things with spiritual [words] .

  • 1 Cor 4:21
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    21 What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?

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