1st Corinthians Chapter 14 verse 32 Holy Bible
and the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets;
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And the spirits of the prophets are controlled by the prophets;
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And spirits of prophets are subject to prophets.
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And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.
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The spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets,
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and the spiritual gift of prophets to prophets are subject,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 32. - And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets. Into this golden aphorism St. Paul compresses the whole force of his reasoning. The articles are better omitted: "Spirits of prophets are under the control of prophets." Mantic inspirations, the violent possession which threw sibyls and priestesses into contortions - the foaming lip and streaming hair and glazed or glaring eye - have no place in the self-controlling dignity of Christian inspiration. Even Jewish prophets, in the paroxysm of emotion, might lie naked on the ground and rave (1 Samuel 19:24); but the genuine inspiration in Christian ages never obliterates the self consciousness or overpowers the reason; It abhors the hysteria and simulation and frenzy which have sometimes disgraced revivalism and filled lunatic asylums.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(32) The spirits of the prophets . . .--They might have said it was impossible to carry out St. Paul's instructions; that the rushing Spirit of God overcame them--shook them, so that they could not control themselves. To this St. Paul replies (1Corinthians 14:31; see above) that it is not so; that they can prophesy one by one; that the spirits of the prophets are under the control of the prophets.
