18 Bible Verses about Prophesying In The Church

And it will happen afterward thus: I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters will prophesy, and your elders will dream dreams; your young men shall see visions.

'And it will be in the last days,' God says, 'I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters will prophesy, and your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams.

And even on my male slaves and on my female slaves I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.

to another {miraculous powers}, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing of spirits, to another kinds of tongues, to another interpretation of tongues.

Pursue love, and strive for spiritual [gifts], but especially that you may prophesy.

So then, my brothers, desire to prophesy, and do not prevent speaking with tongues.

So then, tongues are for a sign not to those who believe, but to unbelievers, but prophecy [is] not for unbelievers, but for those who believe.

Do not neglect the gift [that is] in you, that was granted to you through prophecy with the laying on of hands by the council of elders.

And if I have [the gift of] prophecy and I know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that [I can] remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

But the one who prophesies speaks to people edification and encouragement and consolation.

For you are all able to prophesy {in turn}, in order that all may learn and all may be encouraged,

But if all prophesy, and some unbeliever or outsider enters, he is convicted by all, he is judged by all,

Let two or three prophets speak, and the others evaluate.

And [when] Paul laid hands on them, the Holy Spirit came upon them and they began to speak in tongues and to prophesy.

but having different gifts according to the grace given to us: if [it is] prophecy, according to the proportion of [his] faith;

And I fell down before his feet to worship him, and he said to me, "{Do not do that!} I am a fellow slave of you and of your brothers who hold to the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy."

For we know in part and we prophesy in part,

Love never ends. But if [there are] prophecies, they will pass away. If [there are] tongues, they will cease. If [there is] knowledge, it will pass away.