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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>1 Corinthians 14 WEY</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/1_corinthians/14.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/1_corinthians/14-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">WEY</a> > 1 Corinthians 14</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../1_corinthians/13.htm" title="1 Corinthians 13">◄</a> 1 Corinthians 14 <a href="../1_corinthians/15.htm" title="1 Corinthians 15">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Weymouth New testament</div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Prophecy and Tongues</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/14-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Be eager in your pursuit of this Love, and be earnestly ambitious for spiritual gifts, but let it be chiefly so in order that you may prophesy. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/14-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>For he who speaks in an unknown tongue is not speaking to men, but to God; for no one understands him. Yet in the Spirit he is speaking secret truths. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/14-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>But he who prophesies speaks to men words of edification, encouragement and comfort. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/14-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>He who speaks in an unknown tongue does good to himself, but he who prophesies does good to the Church. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/14-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>I should be right glad were you all to speak in 'tongues,' but yet more glad were you all to prophesy. And, in fact, the man who prophesies is superior to him who speaks in 'tongues,' except when the latter can interpret in order that the Church may get a blessing.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/14-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But, brethren, as things are, if I come to you speaking in 'tongues,' what benefit shall I confer on you, if the utterance is neither in the form of a revelation nor of additional knowledge nor of prophecy nor of teaching? <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/14-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Even inanimate things—flutes or harps, for instance—when yielding a sound, if they make no distinction in the notes, how shall the tune which is played on the flute or the harp be known? <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/14-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>If the bugle—to take another example—gives an uncertain sound, who will prepare for battle? <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/14-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And so with you; if with the living voice you fail to utter intelligible words, how will people know what you are saying? You will be talking to the winds. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/14-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>There are, we will suppose, a great number of languages in the world, and no creature is without a language. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/14-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>If, however, I do not know the meaning of the particular language, I shall seem to the speaker of it, and he to me, to be merely talking some foreign tongue. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/14-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Therefore, seeing that you are ambitious for spiritual gifts, seek to excel in them so as to benefit the Church.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/14-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Therefore let a man who has the gift of tongues pray for the power of interpreting them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/14-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding is barren. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/14-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>How then does the matter stand? I will pray in spirit, and I will pray with my understanding also. I will praise God in spirit, and I will praise Him with my understanding also. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/14-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Otherwise, if you bless God in spirit only, how shall he who is in the position of an ungifted man say the 'Amen' to your giving of thanks, when he does not know what your words mean? <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/14-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Rightly enough you are giving thanks, and yet your neighbor is not benefited. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/14-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>I speak in a tongue, thank God, more than all of you; <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/14-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>but in the Church I would rather speak five words with my understanding—so as to instruct others also—than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/14-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Brethren, do not prove yourselves to be children in your minds. As regards evil, indeed, be utter babes, but as regards your minds prove yourselves to be men of ripe years. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/14-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>In the Law it stands written, "'By men of unknown tongues and by the lips of an unknown nation will I speak to this People, but even then they will not listen to Me', says the Lord." <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/14-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>This shows that the gift of tongues is intended as a sign not to those who believe but to unbelievers, but prophecy is intended not for unbelievers but for those who believe. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/14-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Accordingly if the whole Church has assembled and all are speaking in 'tongues,' and there come in ungifted men, or unbelievers, will they not say that you are all mad? <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/14-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>If, on the other hand, every one is prophesying and an unbeliever or an ungifted man comes in, he is convicted by all and closely examined by all, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/14-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>and the hidden evils of his heart are brought to light. And, as the result, he will fall on his face and worship God, and will report to others that of a truth God is among you.</p> <p class="hdg">Orderly Worship</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/14-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>What then, brethren? Whenever you assemble, there is not one of you who is not ready either with a song of praise, a sermon, a revelation, a 'tongue,' or an interpretation. Let everything be done with a view to the building up of faith and character. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/14-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>If there is speaking in an unknown tongue, only two or at the most three should speak, and they should do so one at a time, and one should interpret; <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/14-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>or if there is no interpreter, let the man with the gift be silent in the Church, speaking to himself and to God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/14-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>But if there are Prophets, let two or three speak and let the rest judge. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/14-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And if anything is revealed to some one else who is seated there, let the first be silent. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/14-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>For you can all prophesy one by one, so that all may learn and all be encouraged: <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/14-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>and the spirits of Prophets yield submission to Prophets. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/14-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>For God is not a God of disorder, but of peace, as He is in all the Churches of His people.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/14-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Let married women be silent in the Churches, for they are not permitted to speak. They must be content with a subordinate place, as the Law also says; <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/14-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>and if they wish to ask questions, they should ask their own husbands at home. For it is disgraceful for a married woman to speak at a Church assembly. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/14-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>Was it from you that God's Message first went forth, or is it to you only that it has come?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/14-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>If any one deems himself to be a Prophet or a man with spiritual gifts, let him recognize as the Lord's command all that I am now writing to you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/14-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>But if any one is ignorant, let him be ignorant.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/14-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>The conclusion, my brethren, is this. 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