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1 Corinthians 14:39–40
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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.
1 Corinthians 14:40
40Let all things be done decently and in order.
40Let all things be done decently, and in order.
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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.
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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.
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The organ of speech; a language; speech or manner of speaking.
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1 Corinthians 14:40
To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
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Performed; executed; finished; a word by which agreement to a proposal is expressed.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
An arrangement, rank, course, command, or appointed manner; also to arrange, direct, or command.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
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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.
From verse 40
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Open the full verse study5For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.
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Open the full verse study5For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:
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Open the full verse study26How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.
27If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret.
28But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.
29Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge.
30If any thing be revealed to another that sitteth by, let the first hold his peace.
31For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.
32And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.
33For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
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Open the full verse study34And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come.
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Open the full verse study13Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
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