KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
1 Corinthians 14:38–39
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1 Corinthians 14:38
38But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant.
38But if any man bee ignorant, let him be ignorant.
1 Corinthians 14:39
39Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.
39Wherefore brethren, couet to prophesie, and forbid not to speake with tongues.
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DEFINED WORDS
1 Corinthians 14:38
However; introducing a contrast with what precedes.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
One, some, or every member or amount of an indefinite number or quantity, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A human being; an adult male; a person, husband, servant, or representative, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Lacking knowledge, information, instruction, or acquaintance concerning the person or matter named.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
DEFINED WORDS
1 Corinthians 14:39
Why; for what reason.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Brothers; near kindred; fellow Israelites; or fellow believers, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
To desire or long for, especially what belongs to another.
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To speak a message given by God; to proclaim, explain, or foretell under divine direction.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828
To command that something not be done; to prohibit or hinder.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To utter words; to say, declare, address, or communicate by speech.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
The organ of speech; a language; speech or manner of speaking.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 38
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Open the full verse study3For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
4And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
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Open the full verse study3If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;
4He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
5Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.
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Open the full verse study6¶ Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
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Open the full verse study11He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
12And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
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Open the full verse study17Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.
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Open the full verse study14Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
From verse 39
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Open the full verse study31But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.
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Open the full verse study1FOLLOW after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.
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Open the full verse study20Despise not prophesyings.
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Open the full verse study24But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not, or one unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all:
25And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling down on his face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth.
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Open the full verse study3But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort.
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Open the full verse study5I would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.
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