1 Corinthians 14:26-40 - Specific Instructions For Orderly Worship Services

²⁶ What then is it, brethren? whenever ye may come together, each of you hath a psalm, hath a teaching, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation? let all things be for building up; ²⁷ if an unknown tongue any one do speak, by two, or at the most, by three, and in turn, and let one interpret; ²⁸ and if there may be no interpreter, let him be silent in an assembly, and to himself let him speak, and to God. ²⁹ And prophets -- let two or three speak, and let the others discern, ³⁰ and if to another sitting anything may be revealed, let the first be silent; ³¹ for ye are able, one by one, all to prophesy, that all may learn, and all may be exhorted, ³² and the spiritual gift of prophets to prophets are subject, ³³ for God is not a God of tumult, but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints. ³⁴ Your women in the assemblies let them be silent, for it hath not been permitted to them to speak, but to be subject, as also the law saith; ³⁵ and if they wish to learn anything, at home their own husbands let them question, for it is a shame to women to speak in an assembly. ³⁶ From you did the word of God come forth? or to you alone did it come?

³⁷ if any one doth think to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge the things that I write to you -- that of the Lord they are commands; ³⁸ and if any one is ignorant -- let him be ignorant; ³⁹ so that, brethren, earnestly desire to prophesy, and to speak with tongues do not forbid; ⁴⁰ let all things be done decently and in order.