59. Rules for Tongues and Worship

1 Corinthians 14:20-33

16 July 2017


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1 Corinthians 14:20-33
20Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.
21In the Law it is written, “By people of strange tongues and by the lips of foreigners will I speak to this people, and even then they will not listen to me, says the Lord.”
22Thus tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers, while prophecy is a sign not for unbelievers but for believers.
23If, therefore, the whole church comes together and all speak in tongues, and outsiders or unbelievers enter, will they not say that you are out of your minds?
24But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or outsider enters, he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all,
25the secrets of his heart are disclosed, and so, falling on his face, he will worship God and declare that God is really among you.
26What then, brothers? When you come together, each one has a hymn, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. Let all things be done for building up.
27If any speak in a tongue, let there be only two or at most three, and each in turn, and let someone interpret.
28But if there is no one to interpret, let each of them keep silent in church and speak to himself and to God.
29Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others weigh what is said.
30If a revelation is made to another sitting there, let the first be silent.
31For you can all prophesy one by one, so that all may learn and all be encouraged,
32and the spirits of prophets are subject to prophets.
33For God is not a God of confusion but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints,
Next in this series: 60. Spiritual Authority and the Role of Women (1 Corinthians 14:34-35)

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