1 Corinthians 14:37

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If anyone considers themselves to be a prophet or spiritually gifted, let them acknowledge that the things I am writing to you are the Lord’s commands.

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  • 1 John 4:6 : 6 We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this, we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
  • 2 Cor 10:7 : 7 Do you look only at outward appearances? If anyone is confident that he belongs to Christ, let him consider again that just as he belongs to Christ, so also do we.
  • 2 Cor 10:12 : 12 We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves. When they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they lack understanding.
  • 2 Cor 11:4 : 4 For if someone comes and preaches a Jesus other than the one we preached, or if you receive a different spirit than the one you received, or a different gospel than the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough.
  • 2 Cor 11:12-15 : 12 And I will keep on doing what I am doing, so that I can cut off the opportunity of those who want an opportunity to be regarded as our equals in the things they boast about. 13 For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. 14 And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. 15 It is not surprising, then, if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be according to their deeds.
  • Gal 6:8 : 8 The one who sows to their flesh will reap decay from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.
  • 1 Thess 4:1-8 : 1 Finally, brothers, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus, just as you received instructions from us on how you ought to live and please God, that you would excel even more. 2 For you know the commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus. 3 For this is God’s will: your sanctification—that you abstain from sexual immorality. 4 That each of you knows how to control his own body in holiness and honor, 5 not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God. 6 And that no one transgresses or defrauds their brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger of all these things, as we have forewarned and solemnly testified to you. 7 For God has not called us to impurity but to live in holiness. 8 Therefore, whoever disregards this does not reject man but God, who also gives His Holy Spirit to you.
  • 2 Pet 3:2 : 2 to remember the words that were spoken beforehand by the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior communicated through your apostles.
  • Jude 1:17 : 17 But you, beloved, remember the words that were spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • Num 24:3-4 : 3 He began his oracle, saying: 'The oracle of Balaam, son of Beor, the oracle of the man whose eye is opened.' 4 'The oracle of one who hears the words of God, who sees visions of the Almighty, who falls down, with eyes uncovered.'
  • Num 24:16 : 16 'The oracle of one who hears the words of God and knows the knowledge of the Most High, who sees visions of the Almighty, who falls down, with eyes uncovered.'
  • Luke 10:16 : 16 Whoever listens to you listens to Me; whoever rejects you rejects Me; and whoever rejects Me rejects Him who sent Me.
  • Rom 12:3 : 3 For by the grace given to me, I say to everyone among you not to think of yourselves more highly than you ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, according to the measure of faith that God has assigned to each of you.
  • 1 Cor 7:25 : 25 Now concerning virgins: I have no command from the Lord, but I give my opinion as one who, by the Lord’s mercy, is trustworthy.
  • 1 Cor 7:40 : 40 Yet in my opinion, she is happier if she remains as she is—and I think that I too have the Spirit of God.
  • 1 Cor 8:2 : 2 If anyone thinks they know something, they do not yet know as they ought to know.
  • 1 Cor 13:1-3 : 1 If I speak in the tongues of people and of angels, but do not have love, I am like a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy, understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give everything I have to the poor and surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

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