¹⁹ Stop stifling the Spirit. ²⁰ Stop treating the messages of prophecy with contempt, ²¹ but continue to prove all things until you can approve them, and then hold on to what is good.

Cross References

1 Corinthians 11:4

Any man who prays or preaches with anything on his head dishonors his head,

1 Corinthians 14:1

Keep on pursuing love, but still keep cultivating your spiritual gifts, especially the gift of prophesying.

1 Corinthians 14:3-6

But whoever prophesies is speaking to men for their upbuilding. encouragement, and comfort.

1 Corinthians 14:22-25

So speaking in ecstasy is meant as a sign, not for believers but for unbelievers, while prophecy is meant, not for unbelievers but for believers.

1 Corinthians 14:29-32

Let two or three prophets speak, and the rest consider carefully what is said;

1 Corinthians 14:37-39

If anyone claims to have the prophetic spirit, or any other spiritual gift, let him recognize that what I now am writing is the Lord's command.

Acts 19:6

and when Paul laid his hands upon them, the Holy Spirit came upon them, and they began to speak in foreign tongues and to prophesy.

to another, power for working wonders; to another, prophetic insight; to another, the power to discriminate between the true Spirit and false spirits; to another, various ecstatic utterances; and to another, the power to explain them.

1 Corinthians 12:28

And God has placed people in the church, first as apostles, second as prophets, third as teachers, then wonder-workers; then people with power to cure the sick, helpers, managers, ecstatic speakers.

1 Corinthians 13:2

If I should have the gift of prophecy, And know all secret truths, and knowledge in its every form, and have such perfect faith that I could move mountains, but have no love, I am nothing.

1 Corinthians 13:9

For what we know is incomplete and what we prophesy is incomplete.

Ephesians 4:11-12

And He has given some men to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, some to be pastors and teachers,

1 Thessalonians 4:8

So whoever rejects this teaching is rejecting not man but God who continues to put His Spirit in you.

Revelation 11:3-11

And I will permit my two witnesses, clothed in sackcloth, to prophesy for one thousand, two hundred and sixty days."