17 Bible Verses about Prophesying In The Church
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And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophecy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
And in those days I will pour out of my Spirit upon my servants and upon my handmaids, and they shall prophecy.
to another the gift of healing by the same Spirit; To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another the discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues.
Follow after love: and desire spiritual gifts; but especially that ye may prophesy.
Therefore, brethren, covet to prophesy; yet forbid not to speak with tongues.
So that tongues are for a sign, not to believers, but to unbelievers; whereas prophecy is not for unbelievers, but for believers.
Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.
And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
Whereas he that prophesieth, speaketh to men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort.
For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.
Whereas if all prophesy, and there come in an unbeliever, or an ignorant person, he is convicted by all, he is judged by all:
Let two or three of the prophets speak, and let the rest judge. But if any thing be revealed to another that sitteth by,
And Paul laying his hands on them, the Holy Ghost came upon them, and they spake with tongues and prophesied.
Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given us, whether it be prophesy, let us prophesy according to the analogy of faith:
And I fell before his feet to worship him: but he saith to me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellow-servant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus. Worship God. The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
