18 Bible Verses about Prophesying In The Church
Most Relevant Verses
"Then it will come about at a later time that I will pour out my Spirit on every person. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your elderly people will dream dreams, and your young people will see visions.
"In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on everyone. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams.
In those days I will even pour out my Spirit on my slaves, men and women alike, and they will prophesy.
to another miraculous results; to another prophecy; to another the ability to distinguish between spirits; to another various kinds of languages; and to another the interpretation of languages.
Keep on pursuing love, and keep on desiring spiritual gifts, especially the ability to prophesy.
Therefore, my brothers, desire the ability to prophesy, and do not prevent others from speaking in foreign languages.
Foreign languages, then, are meant to be a sign, not for believers, but for unbelievers, while prophecy is meant, not for unbelievers, but for believers.
Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you through prophecy when the elders laid their hands on you.
If I have the gift of prophecy and can understand all secrets and every form of knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains but have no love, I am nothing.
But the person who prophesies speaks to people for their upbuilding, encouragement, and comfort.
For everyone can prophesy in turn, so that everyone can be instructed and everyone can be encouraged.
But if everyone is prophesying, when an unbeliever or an uneducated person comes in he will be convicted and examined by everything that's happening.
Two or three prophets should speak, and others should weigh carefully what is said.
When Paul laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they began to speak in foreign languages and to prophesy.
We have different gifts based on the grace that was given to us. So if your gift is prophecy, use your gift in proportion to your faith.
I bowed down at his feet to worship him, but he told me, "Don't do that! I am a fellow servant with you and with your brothers who rely on what Jesus is saying. Worship God, because what Jesus is saying is the spirit of prophecy!"
Love never fails. Now if there are prophecies, they will be done away with. If there are languages, they will cease. If there is knowledge, it will be done away with.
