1 Corinthians 14:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

But he who prophesies speaks to men for edification, exhortation, and comfort.

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  • 1 Cor 14:12 : 12 Even so you, since you are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that you may excel to the edification of the church.
  • Eph 6:22 : 22 Whom I have sent to you for the same purpose, that you might know our affairs, and that he might comfort your hearts.
  • 1 Tim 4:13 : 13 Till I come, give attention to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
  • 2 Tim 4:2 : 2 Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; correct, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.
  • Titus 1:9 : 9 Holding fast the faithful word as he has been taught, that he may be able, by sound doctrine, both to exhort and to convict those who contradict.
  • Titus 2:6 : 6 Likewise exhort the young men to be sober-minded.
  • Titus 2:9 : 9 Exhort servants to be obedient to their own masters, and to please them well in all things, not answering back;
  • 1 Thess 5:11-14 : 11 Therefore comfort each other and edify one another, just as you also do. 12 And we urge you, brothers, to recognize those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you; 13 And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. And be at peace among yourselves. 14 Now we exhort you, brothers, warn those who are unruly, comfort the fainthearted, uphold the weak, be patient with all.
  • 1 Cor 14:26 : 26 How is it then, brethren? When you come together, each of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification.
  • Rom 14:19 : 19 Therefore let us pursue the things that lead to peace and the building up of one another.
  • 1 Cor 14:4-5 : 4 He who speaks in an unknown tongue edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the church. 5 I wish that you all spoke with tongues, but rather that you prophesied; for greater is he who prophesies than he who speaks with tongues, unless he interprets, that the church may receive edification.
  • Jude 1:20 : 20 But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,
  • Acts 13:15 : 15 And after the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, Men and brethren, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, speak on.
  • Acts 14:22 : 22 Strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and saying that we must through many tribulations enter the kingdom of God.
  • Acts 15:32 : 32 And Judas and Silas, being prophets themselves, exhorted and strengthened the brethren with many words.
  • Rom 12:8 : 8 Or he who exhorts, on exhortation: he who gives, let him do it with simplicity; he who leads, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.
  • Rom 15:2 : 2 Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.
  • 1 Cor 8:1 : 1 Now concerning things offered to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
  • 1 Cor 10:23 : 23 All things are lawful for me, but not all things are beneficial: all things are lawful for me, but not all things build up.
  • 1 Cor 14:31 : 31 For you may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn and all may be encouraged.
  • 2 Cor 1:4 : 4 Who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, by the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
  • 2 Cor 2:7 : 7 So, on the contrary, you ought rather to forgive and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one be swallowed up with excessive sorrow.
  • Eph 4:12-16 : 12 For the equipping of the saints, for the work of ministry, for the building up of the body of Christ: 13 Till we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ: 14 That we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness by which they lie in wait to deceive; 15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into him who is the head, Christ: 16 From whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.
  • Eph 4:29 : 29 Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers.
  • 1 Cor 14:17 : 17 For you truly give thanks well, but the other is not edified.
  • Luke 3:18 : 18 So, with many other exhortations, he preached to the people.
  • Acts 9:31 : 31 Then the churches throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, they were multiplied.
  • 2 Thess 3:12 : 12 Now those who are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that they work quietly and eat their own bread.
  • 1 Tim 1:4 : 4 Nor give attention to fables and endless genealogies, which cause questions rather than godly edification which is in faith, so do.
  • 1 Tim 6:2 : 2 And those who have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but rather serve them, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort.
  • Col 4:8 : 8 Whom I have sent to you for this very purpose, that he may know your situation and comfort your hearts;
  • 1 Thess 2:3 : 3 For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:
  • 1 Thess 2:11 : 11 As you know how we exhorted, and comforted, and charged every one of you, as a father does his children,
  • 1 Thess 3:2 : 2 And sent Timothy, our brother and minister of God, and our fellow worker in the gospel of Christ, to establish you and to comfort you concerning your faith:
  • 1 Thess 4:1 : 1 Furthermore, then, we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as you have received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, so you would abound more and more.
  • 1 Thess 4:18 : 18 Therefore, comfort one another with these words.
  • Titus 2:15 : 15 Speak these things, and exhort and rebuke with all authority. Let no one despise you.
  • Heb 3:13 : 13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called Today; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
  • Heb 10:25 : 25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.
  • Heb 13:22 : 22 And I urge you, brethren, bear with the word of exhortation, for I have written to you in few words.
  • 1 Pet 5:12 : 12 By Silvanus, a faithful brother to you, as I suppose, I have written briefly, exhorting and testifying that this is the true grace of God in which you stand.

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  • 1 Cor 14:4-7
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    4 He who speaks in an unknown tongue edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the church.

    5 I wish that you all spoke with tongues, but rather that you prophesied; for greater is he who prophesies than he who speaks with tongues, unless he interprets, that the church may receive edification.

    6 Now, brethren, if I come to you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, unless I speak to you by revelation, knowledge, prophesying, or doctrine?

    7 Even things without life, giving sound, whether pipe or harp, unless they give a distinction in the sounds, how will it be known what is piped or harped?

  • 1 Cor 14:1-2
    2 verses
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    1 Pursue love, and desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.

    2 For he who speaks in an unknown tongue speaks not to men, but to God; for no man understands him; however, in the spirit he speaks mysteries.

  • 1 Cor 14:21-32
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    21 In the law it is written: With men of other tongues and other lips I will speak to this people, and yet for all that they will not hear me, says the Lord.

    22 Therefore, tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe, but to those who do not believe; but prophesying is not for unbelievers, but for those who believe.

    23 Therefore, if the whole church comes together in one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those who are uninformed or unbelievers, will they not say that you are mad?

    24 But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or uninformed person comes in, he is convinced by all, he is judged by all.

    25 And thus the secrets of his heart are revealed; and so, falling down on his face, he will worship God and report that God is truly among you.

    26 How is it then, brethren? When you come together, each of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification.

    27 If anyone speaks in an unknown tongue, let it be by two or at the most by three, and each in turn, and let one interpret.

    28 But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent in the church, and let him speak to himself and to God.

    29 Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the others judge.

    30 If anything is revealed to another who sits by, let the first keep silent.

    31 For you may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn and all may be encouraged.

    32 And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.

  • 1 Cor 14:39-40
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    39 Therefore, brethren, desire to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking with tongues.

    40 Let all things be done decently and in order.

  • 1 Cor 14:12-19
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    12 Even so you, since you are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that you may excel to the edification of the church.

    13 Therefore, let him who speaks in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret.

    14 For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prays, 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 Otherwise, if you bless with the spirit, how will he who occupies the place of the uninformed say Amen at your giving of thanks, seeing he does not understand what you say?

    17 For you truly give thanks well, but the other is not edified.

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

    19 Yet in the church, I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I may teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.

  • 2 Cor 1:3-4
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    3 Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;

    4 Who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, by the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

  • 1 Cor 14:9-10
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    9 So likewise you, unless you utter by the tongue words easy to understand, how will it be known what is spoken? For you will speak into the air.

    10 There are, perhaps, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without significance.

  • 1 Thess 5:11
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    11 Therefore comfort each other and edify one another, just as you also do.

  • 1 Thess 4:18
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    18 Therefore, comfort one another with these words.

  • 2 Thess 2:17
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    17 Comfort your hearts, and establish you in every good word and work.

  • 1 Cor 12:10
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    10 To another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.

  • Eph 4:12
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    12 For the equipping of the saints, for the work of ministry, for the building up of the body of Christ:

  • 2 Tim 3:17
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    17 That the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for all good works.

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

  • Rom 14:19
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    19 Therefore let us pursue the things that lead to peace and the building up of one another.

  • 1 Thess 5:14
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    14 Now we exhort you, brothers, warn those who are unruly, comfort the fainthearted, uphold the weak, be patient with all.

  • 1 Cor 13:9
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    9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

  • 1 Thess 3:2
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    2 And sent Timothy, our brother and minister of God, and our fellow worker in the gospel of Christ, to establish you and to comfort you concerning your faith:

  • 1 Pet 4:11
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    11 If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God; if anyone serves, let him do so with the ability which God gives: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

  • Isa 28:11
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    11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.

  • Rom 12:6
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    6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;

  • 1 Thess 5:20
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    20 Do not despise prophecies.

  • Isa 40:1
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    1 Comfort, comfort my people, says your God.

  • 1 Cor 2:13
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    13 These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

  • 1 Thess 3:7
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    7 Therefore, brothers, we were comforted concerning you in all our affliction and distress by your faith: