1st Corinthians Chapter 14 verse 39 Holy Bible
Wherefore, my brethren, desire earnestly to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.
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So then, my brothers, let it be your chief desire to be prophets; but let no one be stopped from using tongues.
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So that, brethren, desire to prophesy, and do not forbid the speaking with tongues.
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Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.
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Therefore, brothers, desire earnestly to prophesy, and don't forbid speaking with other languages.
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so that, brethren, earnestly desire to prophesy, and to speak with tongues do not forbid;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 39. - Wherefore. The final conclusion. Covet... forbid not. The power to preach is to be desired; all that can be said of glossolaly is that it is not to be absolutely forbidden so long as the conditions which St. Paul has laid down for its regulation are observed. But glossolaly is hardly possible under conditions of order, decorum, and self suppression, and we are not surprised that we hear no more of it in the Church, but only in the wild excitement of fanatical sects. The suppression, however, of the startling manifestation by no means necessarily involves any enfeeblement of the inspiring conviction from which it sprang. The brawling torrent which "foams its madness off" is lost in the calm and majestic flow of the deep river.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(39) Wherefore, brethren.--The practical summing up of the whole matter. Seek earnestly to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues. The phraseology intimates the relative importance of the two gifts in the estimation of the Apostle, which was inverted by those to whom he wrote at Corinth. This ought you to do, but not leave the other undone.
