1 Corinthians 14:3

World English Bible (2000)

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὁ δὲ προφητεύων ἀνθρώποις λαλεῖ οἰκοδομὴν, καὶ παράκλησιν, καὶ παραμυθίαν.

Transliteration

The de prophēteuōn to-anthrōpois lalei oikodomēn, kai paraklēsin, kai paramythian.

Grammar Details

• *de*: postpositive particle - but/and/now [contrast]
• *prophēteuōn*: present participle, nominative, masculine, singular - prophesying/one who prophesies
• *anthrōpois*: dative, masculine, plural - to men/humans
• *lalei*: present indicative, 3rd singular - speaks/is speaking
• *oikodomēn*: accusative, feminine, singular - edification/building up
• *kai*: conjunction - and
• *paraklēsin*: accusative, feminine, singular - encouragement/exhortation/comfort
• *paramythian*: accusative, feminine, singular - consolation/comfort/encouragement

Word Meanings

• *prophēteuōn*: prophesying/speaking God's message/speaking under divine inspiration
• *anthrōpois*: men/human beings/people
• *oikodomēn*: edification/building up/strengthening/construction
• *paraklēsin*: encouragement/exhortation/comfort/consolation
• *paramythian*: consolation/comfort/soothing words/encouragement

Referenced Verses

• 1 Cor 14:12 : 12 So also you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, seek that you may abound to the building up of the assembly.
• Eph 6:22 : 22 whom I have sent to you for this very purpose, that you may know our state, and that he may comfort your hearts.
• 1 Tim 4:13 : 13 Until I come, pay attention to reading, to exhortation, and to teaching.
• 2 Tim 4:2 : 2 preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with all patience and teaching.
• Titus 1:9 : 9 holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.
• Titus 2:6 : 6 Likewise, exhort the younger men to be sober minded;
• Titus 2:9 : 9 Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters, and to be well-pleasing in all things; not contradicting;
• 1 Thess 5:11-14 : 11 Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do. 12 But we beg you, brothers, to know those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you, 13 and to respect and honor them in love for their work's sake. Be at peace among yourselves. 14 We exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be patient toward all.
• 1 Cor 14:26 : 26 What is it then, brothers? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has another language, has an interpretation. Let all things be done to build each other up.
• Rom 14:19 : 19 So then, let us follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.
• 1 Cor 14:4-5 : 4 He who speaks in another language edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the assembly. 5 Now I desire to have you all speak with other languages, but rather that you would prophesy. For he is greater who prophesies than he who speaks with other languages, unless he interprets, that the assembly may be built up.
• Jude 1:20 : 20 But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.
• Acts 13:15 : 15 After the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, "Brothers, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, speak."
• Acts 14:22 : 22 confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into the Kingdom of God.
• Acts 15:32 : 32 Judas and Silas, also being prophets themselves, encouraged the brothers with many words, and strengthened them.
• Rom 12:8 : 8 or he who exhorts, to his exhorting: he who gives, let him do it with liberality; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.
• Rom 15:2 : 2 Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.
• 1 Cor 8:1 : 1 Now concerning things sacrificed 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 profitable. "All things are lawful for me," but not all things build up.
• 1 Cor 14:31 : 31 For you all can prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be exhorted.
• 2 Cor 1:4 : 4 who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
• 2 Cor 2:7 : 7 so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.
• Eph 4:12-16 : 12 for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ; 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; 14 that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error; 15 but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ; 16 from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.
• Eph 4:29 : 29 Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.
• 1 Cor 14:17 : 17 For you most certainly give thanks well, but the other person is not built up.
• Luke 3:18 : 18 Then with many other exhortations he preached good news to the people,
• Acts 9:31 : 31 So the assemblies throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace, and were built up. They were multiplied, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.
• 2 Thess 3:12 : 12 Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
• 1 Tim 1:4 : 4 neither to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes, rather than God's stewardship, which is in faith--
• 1 Tim 6:2 : 2 Those who have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brothers, but rather let them serve them, because those who partake of the benefit are believing and beloved. Teach and exhort these things.
• Col 4:8 : 8 I am sending him to you for this very purpose, that he may know your circumstances and comfort your hearts,
• 1 Thess 2:3 : 3 For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.
• 1 Thess 2:11 : 11 As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,
• 1 Thess 3:2 : 2 and sent Timothy, our brother and God's servant in the Good News of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith;
• 1 Thess 4:1 : 1 Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.
• 1 Thess 4:18 : 18 Therefore comfort one another with these words.
• Titus 2:15 : 15 Say these things and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no man despise you.
• Heb 3:13 : 13 but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called "today;" lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
• Heb 10:25 : 25 not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching.
• Heb 13:22 : 22 But I exhort you, brothers, endure the word of exhortation, for I have written to you in few words.
• 1 Pet 5:12 : 12 Through Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I consider him, I have written to you briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God in which you stand.