1 Corinthians 14:26-40 (Epistle)
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- How is it then, brethren? Whenever 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.
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- If anyone speaks in a tongue, let there be two or at the most three, each in turn, and let one interpret.
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- But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent in church, and let him speak to himself and to God.
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- Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others judge.
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- But if anything is revealed to another who sits by, let the first keep silent.
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- For you can all prophesy one by one, that all may learn and all may be encouraged.
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- And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.
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- For God is not the author of confusion but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints.
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- Let your women keep silent in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak; but they are to be submissive, as the law also says.
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- And if they want to learn something, let them ask their own husbands at home; for it is shameful for women to speak in church.
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- Or did the word of God come originally from you? Or was it you only that it reached?
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- If anyone thinks himself to be a prophet or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things which I write to you are the commandments of the Lord.
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- But if anyone is ignorant, let him be ignorant.
- 39
- Therefore, brethren, desire earnestly to prophesy, and do not forbid to speak with tongues.
- 40
- Let all things be done decently and in order.