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& Pursue love, yet desire earnestly spiritual {gifts,} but especially that you may prophesy.

& For one who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God; for no one understands, but in {his} spirit he speaks mysteries.

1 Cor 14:3

& But one who prophesies speaks to men for edification and exhortation and consolation.

1 Cor 14:4

& One who speaks in a tongue edifies himself; but one who prophesies edifies the church.

1 Cor 14:5

& Now I wish that you all spoke in tongues, but {even} more that you would prophesy; and greater is one who prophesies than one who speaks in tongues, unless he interprets, so that the church may receive edifying.

1 Cor 14:6

& But now, brethren, if I come to you speaking in tongues, what will I profit you unless I speak to you either by way of revelation or of knowledge or of prophecy or of teaching?

1 Cor 14:7

& Yet {even} lifeless things, either flute or harp, in producing a sound, if they do not produce a distinction in the tones, how will it be known what is played on the flute or on the harp?

1 Cor 14:8

& For if the bugle produces an indistinct sound, who will prepare himself for battle?

1 Cor 14:9

& So also you, unless you utter by the tongue speech that is clear, how will it be known what is spoken? For you will be speaking into the air.

1 Cor 14:10

& There are, perhaps, a great many kinds of languages in the world, and no {kind} is without meaning.

1 Cor 14:11

& If then I do not know the meaning of the language, I will be to the one who speaks a barbarian, and the one who speaks will be a barbarian to me.

1 Cor 14:12

& So also you, since you are zealous of spiritual {gifts,} seek to abound for the edification of the church.

1 Cor 14:13

& Therefore let one who speaks in a tongue pray that he may interpret.

1 Cor 14:14

& For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful.

1 Cor 14:15

& What is {the outcome} then? I will pray with the spirit and I will pray with the mind also; I will sing with the spirit and I will sing with the mind also.

1 Cor 14:16

& Otherwise if you bless in the spirit {only,} how will the one who fills the place of the ungifted say the "Amen" at your giving of thanks, since he does not know what you are saying?

1 Cor 14:17

& For you are giving thanks well enough, but the other person is not edified.

1 Cor 14:18

& I thank God, I speak in tongues more than you all;

1 Cor 14:19

& however, in the church I desire to speak five words with my mind so that I may instruct others also, rather than ten thousand words in a tongue.

1 Cor 14:20

& Brethren, do not be children in your thinking; yet in evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.

1 Cor 14:21

& In the Law it is written, "BY MEN OF STRANGE TONGUES AND BY THE LIPS OF STRANGERS I WILL SPEAK TO THIS PEOPLE, AND EVEN SO THEY WILL NOT LISTEN TO ME," says the Lord.

1 Cor 14:22

& So then tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe but to unbelievers; but prophecy {is for a sign,} not to unbelievers but to those who believe.

1 Cor 14:23

& Therefore if the whole church assembles together and all speak in tongues, and ungifted men or unbelievers enter, will they not say that you are mad?

1 Cor 14:24

& But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or an ungifted man enters, he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all;

1 Cor 14:25

& the secrets of his heart are disclosed; and so he will fall on his face and worship God, declaring that God is certainly among you.