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1 Corinthians 14

The Complete Jewish Bible CJB

1 Pursue love! However, keep on eagerly seeking the things of the Spirit; and especially seek to be able to prophesy.

2 For someone speaking in a tongue is not speaking to people but to God, because no one can understand, since he is uttering mysteries in the power of the Spirit.

3 But someone prophesying is speaking to people, edifying, encouraging and comforting them.

4 A person speaking in a tongue does edify himself, but a person prophesying edifies the congregation.

5 I wish you would all speak in tongues, but even more I wish you would all prophesy. The person who prophesies is greater than the person who speaks in tongues, unless someone gives an interpretation, so that the congregation can be edified.

6 Brothers, suppose I come to you now speaking in tongues. How can I be of benefit to you unless I bring you some revelation or knowledge or prophecy or teaching?

7 Even with lifeless musical instruments, such as a flute or a harp, how will anyone recognize the melody if one note can't be distinguished from another?

8 And if the bugle gives an unclear sound, who will get ready for battle?

9 It's the same with you: how will anyone know what you are saying unless you use your tongue to produce intelligible speech? You will be talking to the air!

10 There are undoubtedly all kinds of sounds in the world, and none is altogether meaningless;

11 but if I don't know what a person's sounds mean, I will be a foreigner to the speaker and the speaker will be a foreigner to me.

12 Likewise with you: since you eagerly seek the things of the Spirit, seek especially what will help in edifying the congregation.

13 Therefore someone who speaks in a tongue should pray for the power to interpret.

14 For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit does pray, but my mind is unproductive.

15 So, what about it? I will pray with my spirit, but I will also pray with my mind; I will sing with my spirit, but I will also sing with my mind.

16 Otherwise, if you are giving thanks with your spirit, how will someone who has not yet received much instruction be able to say, "Amen," when you have finished giving thanks, since he doesn't know what you are saying?

17 For undoubtedly you are giving thanks very nicely, but the other person is not being edified.

18 I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you,

19 but in a congregation meeting I would rather say five words with my mind in order to instruct others than ten thousand words in a tongue!

20 Brothers, don't be children in your thinking. In evil, be like infants; but in your thinking, be grown-up.

21 In the Torah it is written, "By other tongues, by the lips of foreigners I will speak to this people. But even then they will not listen to me," says ADONAI.

22 Thus tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers, while prophecy is not for unbelievers but for believers.

23 So if the whole congregation comes together with everybody speaking in tongues, and uninstructed people or unbelievers come in, won't they say you're crazy?

24 But if you all prophesy, and some unbeliever or uninstructed person enters, he is convicted of sin by all, he is brought under judgment by all,

25 and the secrets of his heart are laid bare; so he falls on his face and worships God, saying, "God is really here among you!"

26 What is our conclusion, brothers? Whenever you come together, let everyone be ready with a psalm or a teaching or a revelation, or ready to use his gift of tongues or give an interpretation; but let everything be for edification.

27 If the gift of tongues is exercised, let it be by two or at most three, and each in turn; and let someone interpret.

28 And if there is no one present who can interpret, let the people who speak in tongues keep silent when the congregation meets - they can speak to themselves and to God.

29 Let two or three prophets speak, while the others weigh what is said.

30 And if something is revealed to a prophet who is sitting down, let the first one be silent.

31 For you can all prophesy one by one, with the result that all will learn something and all will be encouraged.

32 Also, the prophets' spirits are under the prophets' control;

33 for God is not a God of unruliness but of shalom. As in all the congregations of God's people,

34 let the wives remain silent when the congregation meets; they are certainly not permitted to speak out. Rather, let them remain subordinate, as also the Torah says;

35 and if there is something they want to know, let them ask their own husbands at home; for it is shameful for a woman to speak out in a congregational meeting.

36 Did the word of God originate with you? Or are you the only people it has reached?

37 If anyone thinks he is a prophet or is endowed with the Spirit, let him acknowledge that what I am writing you is a command of the Lord.

38 But if someone doesn't recognize this, then let him remain unrecognized.

39 So, my brothers, eagerly seek to prophesy; and do not forbid speaking in tongues;

40 but let all things be done in a proper and orderly way.

The Bible in Basic English BBE

1 Go after love; still desiring to have the things which the Spirit gives, but most of all that you may have the prophet's power.

2 For he who makes use of tongues is not talking to men but to God; because no one has the sense of what he is saying; but in the Spirit he is talking of secret things.

3 But the word of the prophet gives men knowledge and comfort and strength.

4 He who makes use of tongues may do good to himself; but he who gives the prophet's word does good to the church.

5 Now though it is my desire for you all to have the power of tongues, it would give me more pleasure to be hearing the prophet's word from you; for this is a greater thing than using tongues, if the sense is not given at the same time, for the good of the church.

6 But, now, my brothers, if I come to you using tongues, what profit will it be to you, if I do not give you a revelation, or knowledge, or the word of the prophet, or teaching?

7 Even things without life, having a voice, such as a music-pipe or other instrument, if they do not give out different sounds, who may be certain what is being played?

8 For if the war-horn gives out an uncertain note, who will get ready for the fight?

9 So if you, in using a strange tongue, say words which have no sense, how will anyone take in what you are saying? for you will be talking to the air.

10 There are, it may be, a number of different voices in the world, and no voice is without sense.

11 But if the sense of the voice is not clear to me, I am like a man from a strange country to him who is talking, and he will be the same to me.

12 So if you are desiring the things which the Spirit gives, let your minds be turned first to the things which are for the good of the church.

13 For this reason, let the man who has the power of using tongues make request that he may, at the same time, be able to give the sense.

14 For if I make use of tongues in my prayers, my spirit makes the prayer, but not my mind.

15 What then? let my prayer be from the spirit, and equally from the mind; let my song be from the spirit, and equally from mind.

16 For if you give a blessing with the spirit, how will the man who has no knowledge say, So be it, after your prayer, seeing that he has not taken in what you are saying?

17 For your giving of the blessing is certainly well done, but of no profit to the man without knowledge.

18 I give praise to God that I am able to make use of tongues more than you all:

19 But in the church it would be better for me to make use of five words of which the sense was clear, so that others might have profit, than ten thousand words in a strange tongue.

20 My brothers, do not be children in mind: in evil be as little children, but in mind be of full growth.

21 In the law it is said, By men of other tongues and by strange lips will my words come to this people; and not even so will they give ear to me, says the Lord.

22 For this reason tongues are for a sign, not to those who have faith, but to those who have not: but the prophet's word is for those who have faith, and not for the rest who have not.

23 If, then, the church has come together, and all are using tongues, and there come in men without knowledge or faith, will they not say that you are unbalanced?

24 But if all are teaching as prophets, and a man without faith or knowledge comes in, he is tested by all, he is judged by all;

25 The secrets of his heart are made clear; and he will go down on his face and give worship to God, saying that God is truly among you.

26 What is it then, my brothers? when you come together everyone has a holy song, or a revelation, or a tongue, or is giving the sense of it. Let everything be done for the common good.

27 If any man makes use of a tongue, let it not be more than two, or at the most three, and in turn; and let someone give the sense:

28 But if there is no one to give the sense, let him keep quiet in the church; and let his words be to himself and to God.

29 And let the prophets give their words, but not more than two or three, and let the others be judges of what they say.

30 But if a revelation is given to another who is seated near, let the first be quiet.

31 For you may all be prophets in turn so that all may get knowledge and comfort;

32 And the spirits of the prophets are controlled by the prophets;

33 For God is not a God whose ways are without order, but a God of peace; as in all the churches of the saints.

34 Let women keep quiet in the churches: for it is not right for them to be talking; but let them be under control, as it says in the law.

35 And if they have a desire for knowledge about anything, let them put questions to their husbands privately: for talking in the church puts shame on a woman.

36 What? was it from you that the word of God went out? or did it only come in to you?

37 If any man seems to himself to be a prophet or to have the Spirit, let him take note of the things which I am writing to you, as being the word of the Lord.

38 But if any man is without knowledge, let him be so.

39 So then, my brothers, let it be your chief desire to be prophets; but let no one be stopped from using tongues.

40 Let all things be done in the right and ordered way.