18 Bible Verses about Prophesying In The Church
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And after that, it will come about, says the Lord, that I will send my spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will be prophets, your old men will have dreams, your young men will see visions:
And it will come about, in the last days, says God, that I will send out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will be prophets, and your young men will see visions, and your old men will have dreams:
And on my men-servants and my women-servants I will send my Spirit, and they will be prophets.
And to another the power of working wonders; and to another the prophet's word; and to another the power of testing spirits; to another different sorts of tongues; and to another the power of making clear the sense of the tongues:
Go after love; still desiring to have the things which the Spirit gives, but most of all that you may have the prophet's power.
So then, my brothers, let it be your chief desire to be prophets; but let no one be stopped from using tongues.
For this reason tongues are for a sign, not to those who have faith, but to those who have not: but the prophet's word is for those who have faith, and not for the rest who have not.
Make use of that grace in you, which was given to you by the word of the prophets, when the rulers of the church put their hands on you.
And if I have a prophet's power, and have knowledge of all secret things; and if I have all faith, by which mountains may be moved from their place, but have not love, I am nothing.
But the word of the prophet gives men knowledge and comfort and strength.
For you may all be prophets in turn so that all may get knowledge and comfort;
But if all are teaching as prophets, and a man without faith or knowledge comes in, he is tested by all, he is judged by all;
And let the prophets give their words, but not more than two or three, and let the others be judges of what they say.
And when Paul had put his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them; and they had the power of talking in tongues, and acting like prophets.
And having different qualities by reason of the grace given to us, such as the quality of a prophet, let it be made use of in relation to the measure of our faith;
And I went on my face before his feet to give him worship. And he said to me, See you do it not: I am a brother-servant with you and with your brothers who keep the witness of Jesus: give worship to God: for the witness of Jesus is the spirit of the prophet's word.
For our knowledge is only in part, and the prophet's word gives only a part of what is true:
Though the prophet's word may come to an end, tongues come to nothing, and knowledge have no more value, love has no end.