Church Order What 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.
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27If someone speaks in a tongue, it should be two, or at the most three, one after the other, and someone must interpret.
28But if there is no interpreter, he should be silent in the church. Let him speak to himself and to God.
29Two or three prophets should speak and the others should evaluate what is said.
30And if someone sitting down receives a revelation, the person who is speaking should conclude.
31For you can all prophesy one after another, so all can learn and be encouraged.
1Prophecy and Tongues Pursue love and be eager for the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.
2For 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.
3But the one who prophesies speaks to people for their strengthening, encouragement, and consolation.
4The one who speaks in a tongue builds himself up, but the one who prophesies builds up the church.
5I 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.
6Now, 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?
7It 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?
12It is the same with you. Since you are eager for manifestations of the Spirit, seek to abound in order to strengthen the church.
13So then, one who speaks in a tongue should pray that he may interpret.
14If I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unproductive.
15What 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.
16Otherwise, 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?
17For you are certainly giving thanks well, but the other person is not strengthened.
18I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you,
19but in the church I want to speak five words with my mind to instruct others, rather than ten thousand words in a tongue.
20Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking. Instead, be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.
22So then, tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers. Prophecy, however, is not for unbelievers but for believers.
23So 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?
24But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or uninformed person enters, he will be convicted by all, he will be called to account by all.
25The 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.”
39So then, brothers and sisters, be eager to prophesy, and do not forbid anyone from speaking in tongues.
40And do everything in a decent and orderly manner.
30Not all have gifts of healing, do they? Not all speak in tongues, do they? Not all interpret, do they?
10to another performance of miracles, to another prophecy, and to another discernment of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, and to another the interpretation of tongues.
11It is one and the same Spirit, distributing as he decides to each person, who produces all these things.
9It 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.
10There are probably many kinds of languages in the world, and none is without meaning.
19speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making music in your hearts to the Lord,
1Spiritual Gifts With regard to spiritual gifts, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed.
6And there are different results, but the same God who produces all of them in everyone.
7To each person the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the benefit of all.
14Everything you do should be done in love.
16Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and exhorting one another with all wisdom, singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, all with grace in your hearts to God.
10Divisions in the Church I urge you, brothers and sisters, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to agree together, to end your divisions, and to be united by the same mind and purpose.
11Whoever speaks, let it be with God’s words. Whoever serves, do so with the strength that God supplies, so that in everything God will be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.
4For just as in one body we have many members, and not all the members serve the same function,
33So then, my brothers and sisters, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.
34If anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, so that when you assemble it does not lead to judgment. I will give directions about other matters when I come.
4Now there are different gifts, but the same Spirit.
27Now you are Christ’s body, and each of you is a member of it.
36Did the word of God begin with you, or did it come to you alone?
6so that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
19So then, let us pursue what makes for peace and for building up one another.
14For in fact the body is not a single member, but many.
6I have applied these things to myself and Apollos because of you, brothers and sisters, so that through us you may learn“not to go beyond what is written,” so that none of you will be puffed up in favor of the one against the other.