Follow after love and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy. 1Ti 4:141Co 14:391Co 16:141Co 12:11Th 5:20Heb 12:141Co 14:3-51Co 13:13 For he who speaks in another language speaks not to men, but to God, for no one understands, but in the Spirit he speaks mysteries. Mrk 16:17Act 10:46Act 19:6Act 2:4-111Co 13:21Co 2:101Co 14:9-11Col 1:26-27 But he who prophesies speaks to men for their edification, exhortation, and consolation. 1Co 14:121Ti 4:13Jud 1:202Ti 4:2Eph 6:221Co 14:26Rom 14:19Tit 1:9 He who speaks in another language edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the assembly. 1Co 14:221Co 14:26Mrk 16:171Co 14:17-191Co 14:31Co 13:21Co 14:121Co 14:5 Now I desire to have you all speak with other languages, but even more 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. 1Co 12:101Co 12:28-301Co 13:1Mrk 16:17Num 11:28-291Co 14:3-41Co 13:41Co 14:1
But now, brothers, 1 if I come to you speaking with other languages, what would I profit you unless I speak to you either by way of revelation, or of knowledge, or of prophesying, or of teaching? Eph 1:172Ti 3:16Rom 6:171Co 14:11Co 14:26-302Jn 1:92Pe 3:18Heb 13:9 Even lifeless things that make a sound, whether pipe or harp, if they didn’t give a distinction in the sounds, how would it be known what is piped or harped? 1Co 13:11Co 14:8Num 10:2-10Luk 7:32Mat 11:17 For if the trumpet gave an uncertain sound, who would prepare himself for war? Num 10:9Ezk 33:3-6Jer 4:19Amo 3:6Isa 27:13Job 39:24-25Jol 2:1Neh 4:18-21 So also you, unless you uttered by the tongue words easy to understand, how would it be known what is spoken? For you would be speaking into the air. 1Co 9:26 There are, it may be, so many kinds of languages in the world, and none of them is without meaning. If then I don’t know the meaning of the language, I would be to him who speaks a foreigner, and he who speaks would be a foreigner to me. Act 28:21Co 14:21Act 28:4Col 3:11Rom 1:14 So also you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, seek that you may abound to the building up of the assembly. 1Co 14:261Co 12:311Co 14:3-41Co 14:11Co 12:7Tit 2:14
Therefore let him who speaks in another language pray that he may interpret. Jhn 14:13-14Mrk 11:241Co 12:30Act 1:141Co 12:101Co 14:27-28Act 4:29-31Act 8:15 For if I pray in another language, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful. 1Co 14:21Co 14:15-161Co 14:19
What should I do? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also. I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also. Col 3:16Eph 6:18Eph 5:17-20Jhn 4:23-24Jud 1:20Psa 47:7Rom 12:1-21Co 14:19 Otherwise, if you bless with the spirit, how will he who fills the place of the unlearned say the “Amen” at your giving of thanks, seeing he doesn’t know what you say? 1Ch 16:36Psa 106:48Rev 5:141Co 11:24Deu 27:15-26Jer 28:6Neh 8:6Num 5:22 For you most certainly give thanks well, but the other person is not built up. 1Co 14:41Co 14:6 I thank my God, I speak with other languages more than you all. 1Co 1:4-61Co 4:7 However, in the assembly I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in another language. 1Co 14:21-221Co 14:4
Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature. 1Pe 2:21Co 13:11Rom 16:19Mat 18:31Co 2:62Pe 3:18Eph 4:14-15Php 1:9 In the law it is written, “By men of strange languages and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people. They won’t even listen to me that way, says the Lord.” 2 Isa 28:11-12Jer 5:15Deu 28:49Rom 3:19Jhn 10:34 Therefore other languages are for a sign, not to those who believe, but to the unbelieving; but prophesying is for a sign, not to the unbelieving, but to those who believe. Act 2:6-12Mrk 16:171Ti 1:91Co 14:1Act 2:32-36 If therefore the whole assembly is assembled together and all speak with other languages, and unlearned or unbelieving people come in, won’t they say that you are crazy? Act 2:131Co 11:18Act 26:24Hos 9:7Jhn 10:20 But if all prophesy, and someone unbelieving or unlearned comes in, he is reproved by all, and he is judged by all. Act 2:37Heb 4:12-131Co 2:15Jhn 4:29Jhn 1:47-49 And thus the secrets of his heart are revealed. So he will fall down on his face and worship God, declaring that God is among you indeed. Isa 45:14Zec 8:23Deu 9:18Gen 44:14Isa 60:14Luk 17:16Luk 5:8Psa 72:11
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, or has an interpretation. Let all things be done to build each other up. Eph 5:191Co 12:7-10Rom 14:191Th 5:11Eph 4:161Co 14:12-13Eph 4:291Co 14:40 If any man speaks in another language, let there be two, or at the most three, and in turn; and let one interpret. 1Co 14:26 But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent in the assembly, and let him speak to himself and to God. Let two or three of the prophets speak, and let the others discern. 1Co 12:101Th 5:19-211Jn 4:1-31Co 14:39 But if a revelation is made to another sitting by, let the first keep silent. 1Th 5:19-20Job 32:11Job 33:31-331Co 14:261Co 14:6Job 32:15-20 For you all can prophesy one by one, that all may learn and all may be exhorted. 1Co 14:31Th 5:111Th 5:141Co 14:191Co 14:351Th 4:182Co 1:42Co 7:6-7 The spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets, 1Jn 4:1Act 4:19-201Co 14:29-301Sa 10:10-131Sa 19:19-242Ki 2:32Ki 2:5Jer 20:9 for God is not a God of confusion but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints. Jas 3:17-181Co 14:402Th 3:16Gal 5:221Co 11:16Heb 13:201Co 7:17Rom 15:33 Let the wives be quiet in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to be talking except in submission, as the law also says, 3 1Ti 2:11-12Gen 3:16Num 30:3-131Co 14:35Col 3:18Tit 2:51Co 11:51Pe 3:1-6 if they desire to learn anything. “Let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is shameful for a wife to be talking in the assembly.” 1Pe 3:7Eph 5:12Eph 5:25-271Co 11:141Co 11:61Co 14:34 What!? Was it from you that the word of God went out? Or did it come to you alone? 1Co 4:71Th 1:82Co 10:13-16Act 13:1-3Act 15:35-36Act 16:9-10Act 17:1Act 17:10-11
If any man thinks himself to be a prophet or spiritual, let him recognize the things which I write to you, that they are the commandment of the Lord. 1Jn 4:62Co 10:72Pe 3:2Jud 1:171Th 4:1-81Co 13:1-31Co 7:251Co 8:2 But if anyone is ignorant, let him be ignorant. 2Ti 4:3-41Ti 6:3-5Mat 7:6Rev 22:11-12Hos 4:17Mat 15:14
Therefore, brothers, desire earnestly to prophesy, and don’t forbid speaking with other languages. 1Co 12:311Co 14:11Th 5:201Co 14:24-251Co 14:31Co 14:5 Let all things be done decently and in order. Col 2:5Tit 1:51Co 14:26-331Co 11:34Rom 13:13