Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

Do not disdain prophecies,

New American Standard Bible

do not despise prophetic utterances.

King James Version

Despise not prophesyings.

Holman Bible

Don’t despise prophecies,

International Standard Version

Do not despise prophecies.

American Standard Version

despise not prophesyings;

Amplified

Do not scorn or reject gifts of prophecy or prophecies [spoken revelations—words of instruction or exhortation or warning].

An Understandable Version

Do not look down on prophetic messages.

Anderson New Testament

Despise not prophesyings.

Bible in Basic English

Do not make little of the words of the prophets;

Common New Testament

do not despise prophecies.

Daniel Mace New Testament

don't despise the prophetic gift.

Darby Translation

do not lightly esteem prophecies;

Godbey New Testament

despise not prophesying;

Goodspeed New Testament

Do not disregard the utterances it inspires,

John Wesley New Testament

Despise not prophesyings.

Julia Smith Translation

Set not prophecies at nought.

King James 2000

Despise not prophesying.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Do not despise prophecies,

Modern King James verseion

Do not despise prophesying.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

despise not prophesying.

Moffatt New Testament

never disdain prophetic revelations

Montgomery New Testament

Do not despise prophesyings.

NET Bible

Do not treat prophecies with contempt.

New Heart English Bible

Do not treat prophecies with contempt,

Noyes New Testament

despise not prophesyings,

Sawyer New Testament

despise not prophecies.

The Emphasized Bible

Prophesyings, do not despise,

Thomas Haweis New Testament

Despise not prophesyings.

Twentieth Century New Testament

Do not make light of preaching.

Webster

Despise not prophesyings.

Weymouth New Testament

Do not think meanly of utterances of prophecy;

Williams New Testament

Stop treating the messages of prophecy with contempt,

World English Bible

Don't despise prophesies.

Worrell New Testament

Despise not prophesyings;

Worsley New Testament

Slight not prophesyings:

Youngs Literal Translation

prophesyings despise not;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ἐξουθενέω 
Exoutheneo 
Usage: 11

not
μή 
me 
not, no, that not, God forbid 9, lest, neither, no man , but, none, not translated,
Usage: 493

Verse Info

Context Readings

Final Exhortations And Benediction

19 Do not quench the Spirit. 20 Do not disdain prophecies, 21 but examine all things. Hold firm the good.


Cross References

1 Corinthians 11:4

Every man praying or prophesying having something upon his head dishonors his head.

1 Corinthians 14:1

Pursue love, and be zealous for the spiritual things, but more that ye may prophesy.

1 Corinthians 14:3-6

But he who prophesies speaks to men edification and encouragement and comfort.

1 Corinthians 14:22-25

Therefore tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe, but to the unbelieving. But prophesying is not to the unbelieving, but to those who believe.

1 Corinthians 14:29-32

And let two or three prophets speak, and let the other men pass judgment.

1 Corinthians 14:37-39

If any man presumes to be a prophet or spiritual, let him acknowledge what I write to you, that they are commandments of Lord.

Numbers 11:25-29

And LORD came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took from the Spirit that was upon him, and put it upon the seventy elders. And it came to pass, that, when the Spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, but they did so no mor

1 Samuel 10:5-6

After that thou shall come to the hill of God where is the garrison of the Philistines. And it shall come to pass, when thou have come there to the city, that thou shall meet a band of prophets coming down from the high place with

1 Samuel 10:10-13

And when they came there to the hill, behold, a band of prophets met him. And the Spirit of God came mightily upon him, and he prophesied among them.

1 Samuel 19:20-24

And Saul sent messengers to take David. And when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over them, the Spirit of God came upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied.

Acts 19:6

And Paul having laid hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke in tongues, and prophesied.

1 Corinthians 12:10

and to another, workings of miracles, and to another, prophecy, and to another, discerning of spirits, and to a different man, kinds of tongues, and to another, the interpretation of tongues.

1 Corinthians 12:28

And in the church God has placed men who are first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, kinds of tongues.

1 Corinthians 13:2

And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.

1 Corinthians 13:9

But we know in part, and we prophesy in part,

Ephesians 4:11-12

And indeed he gave the apostles, and the prophets, and the evangelists, and the shepherds and teachers

1 Thessalonians 4:8

Therefore he who disregards, disregards not man, but God, who also gave his Holy Spirit to you.

Revelation 11:3-11

And I will give to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy a thousand two hundred and sixty days clothed in sackcloth.

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