1 CORINTHIANS 14:5 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“I would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.”
I would like every one of you to speak in tongues, but I would rather have you prophesy — Paul affirms tongues but subordinates them. The Corinthians' enthusiasm for glossolalia was status-oriented; Paul reframes all gifts as means of strengthening others. He wants them to want prophecy more, shifting the center of gravity from private experience to communal function.
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