1 Corinthians 14:26

Bible in Basic English (1941)

What is it then, my brothers? when you come together everyone has a holy song, or a revelation, or a tongue, or is giving the sense of it. Let everything be done for the common good.

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  • Rom 14:19 : 19 So then, let us go after the things which make peace, and the things by which we may be a help to one another.
  • Eph 5:19 : 19 Joining with one another in holy songs of praise and of the Spirit, using your voice in songs and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
  • 1 Thess 5:11 : 11 So then, go on comforting and building up one another, as you have been doing.
  • 1 Cor 12:7-9 : 7 But to every man some form of the Spirit's working is given for the common good. 8 For to one are given words of wisdom through the Spirit; and to another words of knowledge through the same Spirit: 9 To another faith in the same Spirit; and to another the power of taking away disease, by the one Spirit; 10 And to another the power of working wonders; and to another the prophet's word; and to another the power of testing spirits; to another different sorts of tongues; and to another the power of making clear the sense of the tongues:
  • 1 Cor 14:12-13 : 12 So if you are desiring the things which the Spirit gives, let your minds be turned first to the things which are for the good of the church. 13 For this reason, let the man who has the power of using tongues make request that he may, at the same time, be able to give the sense.
  • 2 Cor 12:19 : 19 It may seem to you that all this time we have been attempting to put ourselves in the right; but we are saying these things before God in Christ. For all things, dear brothers, are for your profit.
  • 2 Cor 13:10 : 10 For this cause I am writing these things while I am away, so that there may be need for me, when I am present, to make use of sharp measures, by the authority which the Lord has given me for building up and not for destruction.
  • Eph 4:16 : 16 Through whom all the body, being rightly formed and united together, by the full working of every part, is increased to the building up of itself in love.
  • Eph 4:29 : 29 Let no evil talk come out of your mouth, but only what is good for giving necessary teaching, and for grace to those who give ear.
  • Eph 4:12 : 12 For the training of the saints as servants in the church, for the building up of the body of Christ:
  • 1 Cor 14:27 : 27 If any man makes use of a tongue, let it not be more than two, or at the most three, and in turn; and let someone give the sense:
  • 1 Cor 14:40 : 40 Let all things be done in the right and ordered way.
  • 1 Cor 14:4-6 : 4 He who makes use of tongues may do good to himself; but he who gives the prophet's word does good to the church. 5 Now though it is my desire for you all to have the power of tongues, it would give me more pleasure to be hearing the prophet's word from you; for this is a greater thing than using tongues, if the sense is not given at the same time, for the good of the church. 6 But, now, my brothers, if I come to you using tongues, what profit will it be to you, if I do not give you a revelation, or knowledge, or the word of the prophet, or teaching?

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  • 1 Cor 14:27-31
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    27 If any man makes use of a tongue, let it not be more than two, or at the most three, and in turn; and let someone give the sense:

    28 But if there is no one to give the sense, let him keep quiet in the church; and let his words be to himself and to God.

    29 And let the prophets give their words, but not more than two or three, and let the others be judges of what they say.

    30 But if a revelation is given to another who is seated near, let the first be quiet.

    31 For you may all be prophets in turn so that all may get knowledge and comfort;

  • 1 Cor 14:1-7
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    1 Go after love; still desiring to have the things which the Spirit gives, but most of all that you may have the prophet's power.

    2 For he who makes use of tongues is not talking to men but to God; because no one has the sense of what he is saying; but in the Spirit he is talking of secret things.

    3 But the word of the prophet gives men knowledge and comfort and strength.

    4 He who makes use of tongues may do good to himself; but he who gives the prophet's word does good to the church.

    5 Now though it is my desire for you all to have the power of tongues, it would give me more pleasure to be hearing the prophet's word from you; for this is a greater thing than using tongues, if the sense is not given at the same time, for the good of the church.

    6 But, now, my brothers, if I come to you using tongues, what profit will it be to you, if I do not give you a revelation, or knowledge, or the word of the prophet, or teaching?

    7 Even things without life, having a voice, such as a music-pipe or other instrument, if they do not give out different sounds, who may be certain what is being played?

  • 1 Cor 14:12-20
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    12 So if you are desiring the things which the Spirit gives, let your minds be turned first to the things which are for the good of the church.

    13 For this reason, let the man who has the power of using tongues make request that he may, at the same time, be able to give the sense.

    14 For if I make use of tongues in my prayers, my spirit makes the prayer, but not my mind.

    15 What then? let my prayer be from the spirit, and equally from the mind; let my song be from the spirit, and equally from mind.

    16 For if you give a blessing with the spirit, how will the man who has no knowledge say, So be it, after your prayer, seeing that he has not taken in what you are saying?

    17 For your giving of the blessing is certainly well done, but of no profit to the man without knowledge.

    18 I give praise to God that I am able to make use of tongues more than you all:

    19 But in the church it would be better for me to make use of five words of which the sense was clear, so that others might have profit, than ten thousand words in a strange tongue.

    20 My brothers, do not be children in mind: in evil be as little children, but in mind be of full growth.

  • 1 Cor 14:22-25
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    22 For this reason tongues are for a sign, not to those who have faith, but to those who have not: but the prophet's word is for those who have faith, and not for the rest who have not.

    23 If, then, the church has come together, and all are using tongues, and there come in men without knowledge or faith, will they not say that you are unbalanced?

    24 But if all are teaching as prophets, and a man without faith or knowledge comes in, he is tested by all, he is judged by all;

    25 The secrets of his heart are made clear; and he will go down on his face and give worship to God, saying that God is truly among you.

  • 1 Cor 14:39-40
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    39 So then, my brothers, let it be your chief desire to be prophets; but let no one be stopped from using tongues.

    40 Let all things be done in the right and ordered way.

  • 1 Cor 12:30
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    30 Are all able to take away disease? have all the power of tongues? are all able to give their sense?

  • 1 Cor 12:10-11
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    10 And to another the power of working wonders; and to another the prophet's word; and to another the power of testing spirits; to another different sorts of tongues; and to another the power of making clear the sense of the tongues:

    11 But all these are the operations of the one and the same Spirit, giving to every man separately as his pleasure is.

  • 1 Cor 14:9-10
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    9 So if you, in using a strange tongue, say words which have no sense, how will anyone take in what you are saying? for you will be talking to the air.

    10 There are, it may be, a number of different voices in the world, and no voice is without sense.

  • Eph 5:19
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    19 Joining with one another in holy songs of praise and of the Spirit, using your voice in songs and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

  • 1 Cor 12:1
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    1 But about the things of the spirit, my brothers, it is not right for you to be without teaching.

  • 1 Cor 12:6-7
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    6 And there are different operations, but the same God, who is working all things in all.

    7 But to every man some form of the Spirit's working is given for the common good.

  • 1 Cor 16:14
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    14 Let all you do be done in love.

  • Col 3:16
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    16 Let the word of Christ be in you in all wealth of wisdom; teaching and helping one another with songs of praise and holy words, making melody to God with grace in your hearts.

  • 1 Cor 1:10
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    10 Now I make request to you, my brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you will all say the same thing, and that there may be no divisions among you, so that you may be in complete agreement, in the same mind and in the same opinion.

  • 1 Pet 4:11
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    11 If anyone has anything to say, let it be as the words of God; if anyone has the desire to be the servant of others, let him do it in the strength which is given by God; so that in all things God may have the glory through Jesus Christ, whose are the glory and the power for ever.

  • Rom 12:4
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    4 For, as we have a number of parts in one body, but all the parts have not the same use,

  • 1 Cor 11:33-34
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    33 So then, my brothers, when you come together to the holy meal of the Lord, let there be waiting for one another.

    34 If any man is in need of food, let him take his meal in his house; so that you may not come together to your damage. And the rest I will put in order when I come.

  • 1 Cor 12:4
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    4 Now there are different qualities given to men, but the same Spirit.

  • 1 Cor 12:27
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    27 Now you are the body of Christ, and every one of you the separate parts of it.

  • 1 Cor 14:36
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    36 What? was it from you that the word of God went out? or did it only come in to you?

  • Rom 15:6
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    6 So that with one mouth you may give glory to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  • Rom 14:19
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    19 So then, let us go after the things which make peace, and the things by which we may be a help to one another.

  • 1 Cor 12:14
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    14 For the body is not one part, but a number of parts.

  • 1 Cor 4:6
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    6 My brothers, it is because of you that I have taken Apollos and myself as examples of these things, so that in us you might see that it is not wise to go farther than what is in the holy Writings, so that no one of you may be lifted up against his brother.