1 Corinthians 14:26

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

What then is it, brethren? whenever ye may come together, each of you hath a psalm, hath a teaching, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation? let all things be for building up;

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  • Rom 14:19 : 19 So, then, the things of peace may we pursue, and the things of building up one another;
  • Eph 5:19 : 19 speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord,
  • 1 Thess 5:11 : 11 wherefore, comfort ye one another, and build ye up, one the one, as also ye do.
  • 1 Cor 12:7-9 : 7 And to each hath been given the manifestation of the Spirit for profit; 8 for to one through the Spirit hath been given a word of wisdom, and to another a word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit; 9 and to another faith in the same Spirit, and to another gifts of healings in the same Spirit; 10 and to another in-workings of mighty deeds; and to another prophecy; and to another discernings of spirits; and to another `divers' kinds of tongues; and to another interpretation of tongues:
  • 1 Cor 14:12-13 : 12 so also ye, since ye are earnestly desirous of spiritual gifts, for the building up of the assembly seek that ye may abound; 13 wherefore he who is speaking in an `unknown' tongue -- let him pray that he may interpret;
  • 2 Cor 12:19 : 19 Again, think ye that to you we are making defence? before God in Christ do we speak; and the all things, beloved, `are' for your up-building,
  • 2 Cor 13:10 : 10 because of this, these things -- being absent -- I write, that being present, I may not treat `any' sharply, according to the authority that the Lord did give me for building up, and not for casting down.
  • Eph 4:16 : 16 from whom the whole body, being fitly joined together and united, through the supply of every joint, according to the working in the measure of each single part, the increase of the body doth make for the building up of itself in love.
  • Eph 4:29 : 29 Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers;
  • Eph 4:12 : 12 unto the perfecting of the saints, for a work of ministration, for a building up of the body of the Christ,
  • 1 Cor 14:27 : 27 if an `unknown' tongue any one do speak, by two, or at the most, by three, and in turn, and let one interpret;
  • 1 Cor 14:40 : 40 let all things be done decently and in order.
  • 1 Cor 14:4-6 : 4 he who is speaking in an `unknown' tongue, himself doth edify, and he who is prophesying, an assembly doth edify; 5 and I wish you all to speak with tongues, and more that ye may prophecy, for greater is he who is prophesying than he who is speaking with tongues, except one may interpret, that the assembly may receive edification. 6 And now, brethren, if I may come unto you speaking tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either in revelation, or in knowledge, or in prophesying, or in teaching?

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  • 1 Cor 14:27-31
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    27 if an `unknown' tongue any one do speak, by two, or at the most, by three, and in turn, and let one interpret;

    28 and if there may be no interpreter, let him be silent in an assembly, and to himself let him speak, and to God.

    29 And prophets -- let two or three speak, and let the others discern,

    30 and if to another sitting `anything' may be revealed, let the first be silent;

    31 for ye are able, one by one, all to prophesy, that all may learn, and all may be exhorted,

  • 1 Cor 14:1-7
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    1 Pursue the love, and seek earnestly the spiritual things, and rather that ye may prophecy,

    2 for he who is speaking in an `unknown' tongue -- to men he doth not speak, but to God, for no one doth hearken, and in spirit he doth speak secrets;

    3 and he who is prophesying to men doth speak edification, and exhortation, and comfort;

    4 he who is speaking in an `unknown' tongue, himself doth edify, and he who is prophesying, an assembly doth edify;

    5 and I wish you all to speak with tongues, and more that ye may prophecy, for greater is he who is prophesying than he who is speaking with tongues, except one may interpret, that the assembly may receive edification.

    6 And now, brethren, if I may come unto you speaking tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either in revelation, or in knowledge, or in prophesying, or in teaching?

    7 yet the things without life giving sound -- whether pipe or harp -- if a difference in the sounds they may not give, how shall be known that which is piped or that which is harped?

  • 1 Cor 14:12-20
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    12 so also ye, since ye are earnestly desirous of spiritual gifts, for the building up of the assembly seek that ye may abound;

    13 wherefore he who is speaking in an `unknown' tongue -- let him pray that he may interpret;

    14 for if I pray in an `unknown' tongue, my spirit doth pray, and my understanding is unfruitful.

    15 What then is it? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray also with the understanding; I will sing psalms with the spirit, and I will sing psalms also with the understanding;

    16 since, if thou mayest bless with the spirit, he who is filling the place of the unlearned, how shall he say the Amen at thy giving of thanks, since what thou dost say he hath not known?

    17 for thou, indeed, dost give thanks well, but the other is not built up!

    18 I give thanks to my God -- more than you all with tongues speaking --

    19 but in an assembly I wish to speak five words through my understanding, that others also I may instruct, rather than myriads of words in an `unknown' tongue.

    20 Brethren, become not children in the understanding, but in the evil be ye babes, and in the understanding become ye perfect;

  • 1 Cor 14:22-25
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    22 so that the tongues are for a sign, not to the believing, but to the unbelieving; and the prophesy `is' not for the unbelieving, but for the believing,

    23 If, therefore, the whole assembly may come together, to the same place, and all may speak with tongues, and there may come in unlearned or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?

    24 and if all may prophecy, and any one may come in, an unbeliever or unlearned, he is convicted by all, he is discerned by all,

    25 and so the secrets of his heart become manifest, and so having fallen upon `his' face, he will bow before God, declaring that God really is among you.

  • 1 Cor 14:39-40
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    39 so that, brethren, earnestly desire to prophesy, and to speak with tongues do not forbid;

    40 let all things be done decently and in order.

  • 1 Cor 12:30
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    30 have all gifts of healings? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?

  • 1 Cor 12:10-11
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    10 and to another in-workings of mighty deeds; and to another prophecy; and to another discernings of spirits; and to another `divers' kinds of tongues; and to another interpretation of tongues:

    11 and all these doth work the one and the same Spirit, dividing to each severally as he intendeth.

  • 1 Cor 14:9-10
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    9 so also ye, if through the tongue, speech easily understood ye may not give -- how shall that which is spoken be known? for ye shall be speaking to air.

    10 There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is unmeaning,

  • Eph 5:19
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    19 speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord,

  • 1 Cor 12:1
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    1 And concerning the spiritual things, brethren, I do not wish you to be ignorant;

  • 1 Cor 12:6-7
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    6 and there are diversities of workings, and it is the same God -- who is working the all in all.

    7 And to each hath been given the manifestation of the Spirit for profit;

  • 1 Cor 16:14
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    14 let all your things be done in love.

  • Col 3:16
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    16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing each other, in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, in grace singing in your hearts to the Lord;

  • 1 Cor 1:10
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    10 And I call upon you, brethren, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that the same thing ye may all say, and there may not be divisions among you, and ye may be perfected in the same mind, and in the same judgment,

  • 1 Pet 4:11
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    11 if any one doth speak -- `as oracles of God;' if any one doth minister -- `as of the ability which God doth supply;' that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory and the power -- to the ages of the ages. Amen.

  • Rom 12:4
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    4 for as in one body we have many members, and all the members have not the same office,

  • 1 Cor 11:33-34
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    33 so then, my brethren, coming together to eat, for one another wait ye;

    34 and if any one is hungry, at home let him eat, that to judgment ye may not come together; and the rest, whenever I may come, I shall arrange.

  • 1 Cor 12:4
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    4 And there are diversities of gifts, and the same Spirit;

  • 1 Cor 12:27
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    27 and ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

  • 1 Cor 14:36
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    36 From you did the word of God come forth? or to you alone did it come?

  • Rom 15:6
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    6 that with one accord -- with one mouth -- ye may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ;

  • Rom 14:19
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    19 So, then, the things of peace may we pursue, and the things of building up one another;

  • 1 Cor 12:14
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    14 for also the body is not one member, but many;

  • 1 Cor 4:6
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    6 And these things, brethren, I did transfer to myself and to Apollos because of you, that in us ye may learn not to think above that which hath been written, that ye may not be puffed up one for one against the other,