Study Desk

For as the body is one, and in it are many members; and all those members of the body, though many, are one body; so also is the Messiah.

For all of us, likewise, by one Spirit, have been baptized into one body, whether Jews or Gentiles, whether slaves or free; and all of us have drinked in one Spirit.

For a body also, is not one member, but many.

For if the foot should say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it, on that account, not of the body?

For the honorable members in us, have no need of honor: for God hath tempered the body, and given more honor to the member which is inferior;

that there might be no disunion in the body, but that all the members, equally, might care for one another;

28 For God hath placed in his church, first, legates; after them, prophets; after them, teachers; after them, workers of miracles; after them, the gifts of healing, and helpers, and leaders, and [fn] kinds of tongues.

For we know but partially; and we prophesy but partially.

For these three things are abiding, faith, and hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.

For he that speaketh in a tongue, speaketh not unto men, but unto God; for no one understandeth what is said; yet in the spirit, he speaketh a mystery.

But he that prophesieth, speaketh unto men, for edification, and exhortation, and consolation.

Now I would that ye all spoke with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied; for greater is he that prophesieth, than he that speaketh in a tongue, unless he interpret; and if he interpret, he edifieth the church.

For even inanimate things that emit sound, whether pipe or harp, if they make no distinction between one sound and another, how will it be known, what is sung or what is harped?

And if the trumpet shall give an uncertain sound, who will prepare himself for the battle?

For lo, there are many kinds of tongues in the world; and there is not one of them without meaning.

So also ye, since ye are emulous of the gifts of the Spirit for the edification of the church, seek ye to excel.

For if I should pray in a tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is without fruits.

Otherwise, if thou blessest in the spirit, how shall he that filleth the place of one unlearned, say Amen, on thy giving thanks; for he knoweth not what thou sayest?

Wherefore, tongues are established for a sign, not to the believers, but to them that believe not. But prophesyings are not for those who believe not, but for them that believe.

26 I therefore say [fn] my brethren, that when ye assemble, whoever of you hath a psalm, let him speak; and whoever hath a doctrine, and whoever hath a revelation, and whoever hath a tongue, and whoever hath an interpretation. Let them all be for edification.