The Gift Of Tongues

Pursue the love, and seek earnestly the spiritual things, and rather that ye may prophecy, — read the full passage →

And in the day of the Pentecost being fulfilled, they were all with one accord at the same place, — read the full passage →

for he who is speaking in an <FI>unknown<Fi> tongue--to men he doth not speak, but to God, for no one doth hearken, and in spirit he doth speak secrets;

if an <FI>unknown<Fi> tongue any one do speak, by two, or at the most, by three, and in turn, and let one interpret; — read the full passage →

so that the tongues are for a sign, not to the believing, but to the unbelieving; and the prophesy <FI>is<Fi> not for the unbelieving, but for the believing,

The love doth never fail; and whether <FI>there be<Fi> prophecies, they shall become useless; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall become useless;

but in an assembly I wish to speak five words through my understanding, that others also I may instruct, rather than myriads of words in an <FI>unknown<Fi> tongue.

for if I pray in an <FI>unknown<Fi> tongue, my spirit doth pray, and my understanding is unfruitful.

he who is speaking in an <FI>unknown<Fi> tongue, himself doth edify, and he who is prophesying, an assembly doth edify;

And in the day of the Pentecost being fulfilled, they were all with one accord at the same place, — read the full passage →

have all gifts of healings? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?

if an <FI>unknown<Fi> tongue any one do speak, by two, or at the most, by three, and in turn, and let one interpret;

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling;

While Peter is yet speaking these sayings, the Holy spirit fell upon all those hearing the word, — read the full passage →

wherefore he who is speaking in an <FI>unknown<Fi> tongue--let him pray that he may interpret;

And concerning the spiritual things, brethren, I do not wish you to be ignorant; — read the full passage →

I indeed did baptize you with water, but he shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit.'

And it came to pass, in Apollos' being in Corinth, Paul having gone through the upper parts, came to Ephesus, and having found certain disciples, — read the full passage →

and to another in-workings of mighty deeds; and to another prophecy; and to another discernings of spirits; and to another <FI>divers<Fi> kinds of tongues; and to another interpretation of tongues:

And concerning the spiritual things, brethren, I do not wish you to be ignorant; — read the full passage →

so that, brethren, earnestly desire to prophesy, and to speak with tongues do not forbid;

in the law it hath been written, that, `With other tongues and with other lips I will speak to this people, and not even so will they hear Me, saith the Lord;'

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; — read the full passage →

And, in like manner also, the Spirit doth help our weaknesses; for, what we may pray for, as it behoveth <FI>us<Fi> , we have not known, but the Spirit himself doth make intercession for us with groanings unutterable,

and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, according as the Spirit was giving them to declare.

`And signs shall accompany those believing these things; in my name demons they shall cast out; with new tongues they shall speak;

Cretes and Arabians, we did hear them speaking in our tongues the great things of God.'

and I wish you all to speak with tongues, and more that ye may prophecy, for greater is he who is prophesying than he who is speaking with tongues, except one may interpret, that the assembly may receive edification.

and Peter said unto them, `Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,

What, then, <FI>is<Fi> the superiority of the Jew? or what the profit of the circumcision? — read the full passage →

And to each hath been given the manifestation of the Spirit for profit;

and how do we hear, each in our proper dialect, in which we were born?

I give thanks to my God--more than you all with tongues speaking-- — read the full passage →

I give thanks to my God--more than you all with tongues speaking--

For by scorned lip, and by another tongue, Doth He speak unto this people.

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;

If, therefore, the whole assembly may come together, to the same place, and all may speak with tongues, and there may come in unlearned or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?

and all these doth work the one and the same Spirit, dividing to each severally as he intendeth.

And some, indeed, did God set in the assembly, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, afterwards powers, afterwards gifts of healings, helpings, governings, divers kinds of tongues;

for also in one Spirit we all to one body were baptized, whether Jews or Greeks, whether servants or freemen, and all into one Spirit were made to drink,

and Paul having laid on them <FI>his<Fi> hands, the Holy Spirit came upon them, they were speaking also with tongues, and prophesying,

And it shall be in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams; — read the full passage →

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

And there was a certain man in Caesarea, by name Cornelius, a centurion from a band called Italian, — read the full passage →

because John, indeed, baptized with water, and ye shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit--after not many days.'

`And, lo, I do send the promise of my Father upon you, but ye--abide ye in the city of Jerusalem till ye be clothed with power from on high.'

Pursue the love, and seek earnestly the spiritual things, and rather that ye may prophecy,

for to one through the Spirit hath been given a word of wisdom, and to another a word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit;

And it came to pass, in Apollos' being in Corinth, Paul having gone through the upper parts, came to Ephesus, and having found certain disciples, — read the full passage →

and the rumour of this having come, the multitude came together, and was confounded, because they were each one hearing them speaking in his proper dialect,

but ye shall receive power at the coming of the Holy Spirit upon you, and ye shall be witnesses to me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and unto the end of the earth.'

no one is able to come unto me, if the Father who sent me may not draw him, and I will raise him up in the last day;

God <FI>is<Fi> a Spirit, and those worshipping Him, in spirit and truth it doth behove to worship.'

And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

and so the secrets of his heart become manifest, and so having fallen upon <FI>his<Fi> face, he will bow before God, declaring that God really is among you.

so also ye, if through the tongue, speech easily understood ye may not give--how shall that which is spoken be known? for ye shall be speaking to air.

And now, brethren, if I may come unto you speaking tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either in revelation, or in knowledge, or in prophesying, or in teaching?

And ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God doth dwell in you; and if any one hath not the Spirit of Christ--this one is not His;

and there appeared to them divided tongues, as it were of fire; it sat also upon each one of them,

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;

for they were hearing them speaking with tongues and magnifying God.

For by scorned lip, and by another tongue, Doth He speak unto this people. — read the full passage →

`Jehovah doth lift up against thee a nation, from afar, from the end of the earth, as the eagle it flieth; a nation whose tongue thou hast not heard,

and if all may prophecy, and any one may come in, an unbeliever or unlearned, he is convicted by all, he is discerned by all,

for thou, indeed, dost give thanks well, but the other is not built up!

since, if thou mayest bless with the spirit, he who is filling the place of the unlearned, how shall he say the Amen at thy giving of thanks, since what thou dost say he hath not known?

so also ye, since ye are earnestly desirous of spiritual gifts, for the building up of the assembly seek that ye may abound;

if, then, I do not know the power of the voice, I shall be to him who is speaking a foreigner, and he who is speaking, is to me a foreigner;

There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is unmeaning,

for if also an uncertain sound a trumpet may give, who shall prepare himself for battle?

yet the things without life giving sound--whether pipe or harp--if a difference in the sounds they may not give, how shall be known that which is piped or that which is harped?

Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and those dwelling in Mesopotamia, in Judea also, and Cappadocia, Pontus, and Asia,

and they were all amazed, and did wonder, saying one unto another, `Lo, are not all these who are speaking Galileans?

Woe <FI>to<Fi> the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim. And the fading flower of the beauty of his glory, That <FI>is<Fi> on the head of the fat valley of the broken down of wine. — read the full passage →

And ye, beloved, on your most holy faith building yourselves up, in the Holy Spirit praying,

Wherefore, having left the word of the beginning of the Christ, unto the perfection we may advance, not again a foundation laying of reformation from dead works, and of faith on God, — read the full passage →

and to another faith in the same Spirit, and to another gifts of healings in the same Spirit;

And Saul was assenting to his death, and there came in that day a great persecution upon the assembly in Jerusalem, all also were scattered abroad in the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles; — read the full passage →

and I will give wonders in the heaven above, and signs upon the earth beneath--blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke, — read the full passage →

Lo, I am bringing against you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, an affirmation of Jehovah, A nation--strong it <FI>is<Fi> , a nation--from of old it <FI>is<Fi> , A nation--thou knowest not its tongue, Nor understandest what it speaketh.

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John, — read the full passage →

for `he who is willing to love life, and to see good days, let him guard his tongue from evil, and his lips--not to speak guile;

In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won, — read the full passage →

The masters! that which is righteous and equal to the servants give ye, having known that ye also have a Master in the heavens. — read the full passage →

If, then, ye were raised with the Christ, the things above seek ye, where the Christ is, on the right hand of God seated, — read the full passage →

For I wish you to know how great a conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh, — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Timotheus the brother, — read the full passage →

Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers;

let all things be done decently and in order.

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;

and if there may be no interpreter, let him be silent in an assembly, and to himself let him speak, and to God.

Brethren, become not children in the understanding, but in the evil be ye babes, and in the understanding become ye perfect;

What then is it? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray also with the understanding; I will sing psalms with the spirit, and I will sing psalms also with the understanding;

for if I pray in an <FI>unknown<Fi> tongue, my spirit doth pray, and my understanding is unfruitful. — read the full passage →

for he who is speaking in an <FI>unknown<Fi> tongue--to men he doth not speak, but to God, for no one doth hearken, and in spirit he doth speak secrets; — read the full passage →

and those that we think to be less honourable of the body, around these we put more abundant honour, and our unseemly things have seemliness more abundant,

For, even as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the one body, being many, are one body, so also <FI>is<Fi> the Christ,

and there are diversities of workings, and it is the same God--who is working the all in all.

and there are diversities of ministrations, and the same Lord;

And there are diversities of gifts, and the same Spirit;