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If I am not an apostle to others, at least I am to you, for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

Verse ConceptsApostles, IdentficationSeals

Don’t we have the right to be accompanied by a Christian wife like the other apostles, the Lord’s brothers, and Cephas?

Verse ConceptsPeter, The ApostleBachelorsCompanionshipChrist's Earthly FamilyMarriage AllowedThe Apostles In ActionChristians Being Called Brothers

If others have this right to receive benefits from you, don’t we even more?

However, we have not made use of this right; instead we endure everything so that we will not hinder the gospel of Christ.

Verse ConceptsCoveting, prohibition ofControlling PeopleSuffering For The GospelAvoid Being HinderedEnduringHindrances

I do not mean your own conscience, but the other person’s. For why is my freedom judged by another person’s conscience?

Verse ConceptsConsciousnessChristian LibertyReligious FreedomFreedomJudging Others Actionsconscience

But if anyone wants to argue about this, we have no other custom, nor do the churches of God.

Verse ConceptsDivisions, Contrary ToChurch Of GodWomen's Rolespractice

For at the meal, each one eats his own supper ahead of others. So one person is hungry while another gets drunk!

Verse ConceptsLord's SupperWaitingcommunionovereating

If anyone is hungry, he should eat at home, so that when you gather together you will not come under judgment. And I will give instructions about the other matters whenever I come.

Verse ConceptsPhysical HungerDiscipline Of The ChurchChurch OrderComing TogetherGoing To ChurchFeeding The Poorcommunionhungerorder

I wish all of you spoke in other languages, but even more that you prophesied. The person who prophesies is greater than the person who speaks in languages, unless he interprets so that the church may be built up.

Verse ConceptsProphecy, In NtBuilding Up The ChurchInterpreting LanguageEach Local ChurchRight DesiresProphecyProphecies concerningLanguageThe church

But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking in other languages, how will I benefit you unless I speak to you with a revelation or knowledge or prophecy or teaching?

Verse ConceptsProfitsTeachingAcquiring KnowledgeTeaching In The ChurchDoing Gooddoctrine

For you may very well be giving thanks, but the other person is not being built up.

Verse ConceptsBuilding Up The ChurchThank YouThankfulness To OthersBeing Grateful

yet in the church I would rather speak five words with my understanding, in order to teach others also, than 10,000 words in another language.

Verse ConceptsFive ThingsThinking ArightTeaching In The ChurchEach Local ChurchLanguageThe TonguespeakingMaturityorder

It is written in the law:

I will speak to these people
by people of other languages
and by the lips of foreigners,
and even then, they will not listen to Me,


says the Lord.

Verse ConceptsForeignersUnknown Languages

It follows that speaking in other languages is intended as a sign, not for believers but for unbelievers. But prophecy is not for unbelievers but for believers.

Verse ConceptsBelieversNot Believing The GospelProphesying In The ChurchSigns And Wonders Of The GospelThe TongueSpiritual Gifts

Therefore, if the whole church assembles together and all are speaking in other languages and people who are uninformed or unbelievers come in, will they not say that you are out of your minds?

Verse ConceptsLanguages ConfusedAssemblyChurch OrderChurch GatheringsNot Believing The GospelEach Local ChurchReckoned Insane

Therefore, my brothers, be eager to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in other languages.

Verse ConceptsEnthusiasmSpiritual Gifts, Warnings AboutProphesying In The Church