1 Corinthians 14:29

1 Corinthians 14:29

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27 If anyone speaks in a tongue, let there be two or at the most three, each in turn, and let one interpret.

28 But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent in church, and let him speak to himself and to God.

29 Let two or three prophets speak, and ^alet the others judge.

30 But if anything is revealed to another who sits by, ^alet the first keep silent.

31 For you can all prophesy one by one, that all may learn and all may be encouraged.

32 And ^athe spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.

33 For God is not the author of¹ confusion but of peace, ^aas in all the churches of the saints.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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two or three—at one meeting (he does not add "at the most," as in I Corinthians 14:27, lest he should seem to "quench prophesyings," the most edifying of gifts), and these "one by one," in turn (I Corinthians 14:27, "by course," and I Corinthians 14:31). Paul gives here similar rules to the prophets, as previously to those speaking in unknown tongues.

judge—by their power of "discerning spirits" (I Corinthians 12:10), whether the person prophesying was really speaking under the influence of the Spirit (compare I Corinthians 12:3; I John 4:13).

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