12/03 ~ From New Testament Letters
🕊️ (In the Order Believed Written)
(“Speaking in tongues” continued.) 16 - Otherwise, if you give thanks with your spirit, how can someone new coming in from outside say “Amen” to your thanksgiving when they don’t know what you’re saying? 17 For you may be giving thanks well enough, but the other person is not being built up and encouraged.18 I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you. 19 Nevertheless, in church (in meeting) I would rather speak five words that will instruct others, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.
20 Don’t be children in your thinking! Be infants in evil! But in your thinking be mature. 21 In the Law (here meaning Old Testament) it’s 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” [Isaiah 28:11]. 22 Thus tongues {orderly, here and there?} are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers, while prophecy is a sign not for unbelievers but for believers.
23 But if the whole church (group/ecclesia) comes together and everyone is speaking/praying in tongues, and outsiders or unbelievers come in, won’t they say you’re out of your minds? 24 But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or outsider comes in, they will become convinced and will ask questions and look into it all.
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