chapter_1_Corinthians 14
1 Corinthians 14:1: Pursue the love, and seek earnestly the spiritual things, and rather that ye may prophecy, 1 Corinthians 14:2: for he who is speaking in an unknown tongue &#8212; to men he doth not speak, but to God, for no one doth hearken, and in spirit he doth speak secrets; 1 Corinthians 14:3: and he who is prophesying to men doth speak edification, and exhortation, and comfort; 1 Corinthians 14:4: he who is speaking in an unknown tongue, himself doth edify, and he who is prophesying, an assembly doth edify; 1 Corinthians 14:5: 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. 1 Corinthians 14:6: 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? 1 Corinthians 14:7: yet the things without life giving sound &#8212; whether pipe or harp &#8212; if a difference in the sounds they may not give, how shall be known that which is piped or that which is harped? 1 Corinthians 14:8: for if also an uncertain sound a trumpet may give, who shall prepare himself for battle? 1 Corinthians 14:9: so also ye, if through the tongue, speech easily understood ye may not give &#8212; how shall that which is spoken be known? for ye shall be speaking to air. 1 Corinthians 14:10: There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is unmeaning, 1 Corinthians 14:11: if, then, I do not know the power of the voice, I shall be to him who is speaking a foreigner, and he who is speaking, is to me a foreigner; 1 Corinthians 14:12: so also ye, since ye are earnestly desirous of spiritual gifts, for the building up of the assembly seek that ye may abound; 1 Corinthians 14:13: wherefore he who is speaking in an unknown tongue &#8212; let him pray that he may interpret; 1 Corinthians 14:14: for if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit doth pray, and my understanding is unfruitful. 1 Corinthians 14:15: 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; 1 Corinthians 14:16: 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? 1 Corinthians 14:17: for thou, indeed, dost give thanks well, but the other is not built up! 1 Corinthians 14:18: I give thanks to my God &#8212; more than you all with tongues speaking &#8212; 1 Corinthians 14:19: 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. 1 Corinthians 14:20: Brethren, become not children in the understanding, but in the evil be ye babes, and in the understanding become ye perfect; 1 Corinthians 14:21: in the law it hath been written, that, 'With other tongues and with other lips I will speak to this people, and not even so will they hear Me, saith the Lord;' 1 Corinthians 14:22: 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, 1 Corinthians 14:23: 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? 1 Corinthians 14:24: 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, 1 Corinthians 14:25: 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 Corinthians 14:26: 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; 1 Corinthians 14:27: if an unknown tongue any one do speak, by two, or at the most, by three, and in turn, and let one interpret; 1 Corinthians 14:28: and if there may be no interpreter, let him be silent in an assembly, and to himself let him speak, and to God. 1 Corinthians 14:29: And prophets &#8212; let two or three speak, and let the others discern, 1 Corinthians 14:30: and if to another sitting anything may be revealed, let the first be silent; 1 Corinthians 14:31: for ye are able, one by one, all to prophesy, that all may learn, and all may be exhorted, 1 Corinthians 14:32: and the spiritual gift of prophets to prophets are subject, 1 Corinthians 14:33: for God is not a God of tumult, but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints. 1 Corinthians 14:34: Your women in the assemblies let them be silent, for it hath not been permitted to them to speak, but to be subject, as also the law saith; 1 Corinthians 14:35: and if they wish to learn anything, at home their own husbands let them question, for it is a shame to women to speak in an assembly. 1 Corinthians 14:36: From you did the word of God come forth? or to you alone did it come? 1 Corinthians 14:37: if any one doth think to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge the things that I write to you &#8212; that of the Lord they are commands; 1 Corinthians 14:38: and if any one is ignorant &#8212; let him be ignorant; 1 Corinthians 14:39: so that, brethren, earnestly desire to prophesy, and to speak with tongues do not forbid; 1 Corinthians 14:40: let all things be done decently and in order.
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