N.T. in a year reading & study, verses R paraphrased [ ] references { } thots
☀️ (“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, but the other person is not being built up and encouraged.18 I’m happy that I speak in tongues more than all of you. 19 But in meeting, I would rather speak five words that would instruct others, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue!
20 Don’t be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil! And in your thinking be mature. 21 In the Law {here meaning Old Testament account} it’s written, “By people of strange tongues and by the lips of foreigners I will speak, and even then they won’t hear 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? And are babbling? 24 But if all prophesy [prophéteuó - speak under inspiration] and an unbeliever or outsider comes in, they’ll become interested and ask questions and will look into the matter (the testimony).
Tomorrows verses - 1 Corinthians 14:25-28
No comments:
Post a Comment