For you may be giving thanks well enough, but the other person is not being built up. I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you. Nevertheless, in church I would rather speak five words with my mind in order to instruct others, than ten thousand words in a tongue.Brothers, doContinue reading “1 Corinthians 14: 17-25….Grow up!”
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1 Corinthians 14: 6-16….Making the good news known.
Now, brothers, if I come to you speaking in tongues, how will I benefit you unless I bring you some revelation or knowledge or prophecy or teaching? If even lifeless instruments, such as the flute or the harp, do not give distinct notes, how will anyone know what is played? And if the bugle givesContinue reading “1 Corinthians 14: 6-16….Making the good news known.”
1 Corinthians 14: 1-6….Prophecy and Tongues
Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy. For one who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men but to God; for no one understands him, but he utters mysteries in the Spirit. On the other hand, the one who prophesies speaks to people for their upbuilding and encouragementContinue reading “1 Corinthians 14: 1-6….Prophecy and Tongues”
1 Corinthians 12: 31b – 13:13….The Way of Love, a more excellent WAY.
And I will show you a still more excellent way.If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as toContinue reading “1 Corinthians 12: 31b – 13:13….The Way of Love, a more excellent WAY.”
1 Corinthians 12: 21-31a….Continuing the body illustration…
The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestowContinue reading “1 Corinthians 12: 21-31a….Continuing the body illustration…”
1 Corinthians 12: 12-20….A Body has many bits and pieces!
For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one SpiritFor the body doesContinue reading “1 Corinthians 12: 12-20….A Body has many bits and pieces!”
1 Corinthians 12: 1-11….Christians, by the will of God have different ‘gifts’.
Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed. You know that when you were pagans you were led astray to mute idols, however you were led. Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says “Jesus is accursed!” and no one canContinue reading “1 Corinthians 12: 1-11….Christians, by the will of God have different ‘gifts’.”
1 Corinthians 11: 23-34….The proper Way to…
For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way alsoContinue reading “1 Corinthians 11: 23-34….The proper Way to…”
1 Corinthians 11: 17-22….A clear reprimand!
But in the following instructions I do not commend you, because when you come together it is not for the better but for the worse. For, in the first place, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you. And I believe it in part, for there must beContinue reading “1 Corinthians 11: 17-22….A clear reprimand!”
1 Corinthians 11: 8-16….The explanation continued.
For man was not made from woman, but woman from man. Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man. That is why a wife ought to have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels. Nevertheless, in the Lord woman is not independent of man nor man of woman; forContinue reading “1 Corinthians 11: 8-16….The explanation continued.”
As I read it! 