kjc - 1Corinthians:14:1-25

kjc@1Corinthians:14:1 @ Follow after love, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that you may prophesy.

kjc@1Corinthians:14:2 @ For he that speaks in an unknown tongue speaks not unto men, but unto God: for no man understands him; howbeit in the spirit he speaks mysteries.

kjc@1Corinthians:14:3 @ But he that prophesies speaks unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort.

kjc@1Corinthians:14:4 @ He that speaks in an unknown tongue edifies himself; but he that prophesies edifies the church.

kjc@1Corinthians:14:5 @ I would that you all spoke with tongues but rather that you prophesied: for greater is he that prophesies than he that speaks with tongues, unless he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.

kjc@1Corinthians:14:6 @ Now, brothers, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, unless I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine?

kjc@1Corinthians:14:7 @ And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, unless they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?

kjc@1Corinthians:14:8 @ For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?

kjc@1Corinthians:14:9 @ So likewise you, unless you utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for you shall speak into the air.

kjc@1Corinthians:14:10 @ There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification.

kjc@1Corinthians:14:11 @ Therefore if I do not know the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaks a barbarian, and he that speaks shall be a barbarian unto me.

kjc@1Corinthians:14:12 @ Even so you, forasmuch as you are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that you may excel to the edifying of the church.

kjc@1Corinthians:14:13 @ Therefore let him that speaks in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret.

kjc@1Corinthians:14:14 @ For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful.

kjc@1Corinthians:14:15 @ What is it then? 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.

kjc@1Corinthians:14:16 @ Else when you shall bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupies the room of the unlearned say Amen at your giving of thanks, seeing he does not understand what you say?

kjc@1Corinthians:14:17 @ For you truthfully give thanks well, but the other is not edified.

kjc@1Corinthians:14:18 @ I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than you all:

kjc@1Corinthians:14:19 @ yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.

kjc@1Corinthians:14:20 @ Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be you children, but in understanding be men.

kjc@1Corinthians:14:21 @ In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, says the LORD.

kjc@1Corinthians:14:22 @ Therefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying serves not for them that believe not, but for those who believe.

kjc@1Corinthians:14:23 @ If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that you are mad?

kjc@1Corinthians:14:24 @ But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believes not, or one unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all:

kjc@1Corinthians:14:25 @ And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling down on his face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth.