{"id":2438,"date":"2013-08-05T05:00:12","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T11:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=2438"},"modified":"2022-04-20T08:05:36","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T14:05:36","slug":"1-corinthians-141-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=2438","title":{"rendered":"1 Corinthians 14:1-6"},"content":{"rendered":"

1 Pursue love, and desire spiritual\u00a0gifts,\u00a0but especially that you may prophesy.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

2\u00a0<\/sup>For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God, for no one understands\u00a0him;however, in the spirit he speaks mysteries.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

3\u00a0<\/sup>But he who prophesies speaks edification and exhortation and comfort to men.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

4\u00a0<\/sup>He who speaks in a tongue edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the church.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

5\u00a0<\/sup>I wish you all spoke with tongues, but even more that you prophesied; for\u00a0he who prophesies\u00a0is\u00a0greater than he who speaks with tongues, unless indeed he interprets, that the church may receive edification.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

6\u00a0<\/sup>But now, brethren, if I come to you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you unless I speak to you either by revelation, by knowledge, by prophesying, or by teaching?<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

pursue love (v.1) \u2014 connected to 1 Corinthians 13:13<\/h3>\n

The original Greek does not say “an unknown tongue” [as the KJV does]. It says simply, “He that speaketh in a tongue.” The genuine gift of tongues was the supernatural gift of speaking in another language without its having been learned. This verse makes it clear that he who speaks in a tongue, unless the tongue is interpreted, would be speaking “not unto men, but unto God.” The same is true in verse 14<\/span><\/a> where Paul refers to praying in a tongue. He would edify himself alone unless he interpreted, in which case his interpretation would have the same value as the superior gift of prophesying.\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

The gift of tongues, though a dangerous gift, was highly coveted in the Corinthian church, and the person who possessed this gift was very likely to develop a certain spiritual pride in such possession. Also, the very desire to possess the gift of tongues could produce a kind of self-hypnotism, a deliberately-induced hysteria which issued forth in a synthetic, completely false and deluded speaking with tongues. \u2014 Greene, pages 440-441<\/span><\/h3>\n

in the spirit (v.2) \u2014 as opposed to “with understanding” (v.14<\/span><\/a>)<\/h3>\n

edification (v.3) = building<\/h3>\n

edifies himself (v.4) \u2014 not by increasing his understanding, unless he could also interpret, but through encouragement received from evidence of the Spirit \u2014 so, tongues was not to be done in the assembly because, if only the speaker was edified (in the sense of proving he had the Spirit), it was selfish.<\/h3>\n

I wish you all spoke with tongues (v.5) \u2014 keep in mind that this was during the transition period between law and grace when kingdom signs were still given.<\/h3>\n

Prophesy, in these verses, was a gift whereby God gave people His Word to edify others with \u2014 a gift no longer given after the canon was complete.<\/h3>\n

now (v.6) \u2014 logical, not referring to time<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1 Pursue love, and desire spiritual\u00a0gifts,\u00a0but especially that you may prophesy. 2\u00a0For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God, for no one understands\u00a0him;however, in the spirit he speaks mysteries. 3\u00a0But he who prophesies … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-corinthians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2438"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6936,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438\/revisions\/6936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}