Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
prophesyings—whether exercised in inspired teaching, or in predicting the future. "Despised" by some as beneath "tongues," which seemed most miraculous; therefore declared by Paul to be a greater gift than tongues, though the latter were more showy (I Corinthians 14:5).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 1 Thessalonians 5:20:
1 Corinthians 14:1
2 Thessalonians 2:2
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