1 Corinthians 14:26-33
26 How is it then, brethren? Whenever you come together, each of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification. 27 If anyone speaks in a tongue, let there be two or at the most three, each in turn, and let one interpret. 28 But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent in church, and let him speak to himself and to God. 29 Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others judge. 30 But if anything is revealed to another who sits by, let the first keep silent. 31 For you can all prophesy one by one, that all may learn and all may be encouraged. 32 And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets. 33 For God is not the author of confusion but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints.
26 How is it then, brethren? Whenever you come together, each of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification. 27 If anyone speaks in a tongue, let there be two or at the most three, each in turn, and let one interpret. 28 But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent in church, and let him speak to himself and to God. 29 Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others judge. 30 But if anything is revealed to another who sits by, let the first keep silent. 31 For you can all prophesy one by one, that all may learn and all may be encouraged. 32 And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets. 33 For God is not the author of confusion but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints.
When the church gathers, any God-given gift must be done with order and purpose, whether a song or teaching or exposition or even another God-enabled language which is interpreted if the hearers do not know it. If someone reveals something it must be already written already in the scriptures, and so must be examined for accuracy to encourage others to follow Christ and glorify God. We are only to exercise these spiritual things for building each other up, not as disturbing mayhem, but bringing peace to the soul. Unfortunately, what is often seen today is the false teaching saying the gifts are part of salvation, or make one a more full Christian; they make the pretense of what should come from God as an exhibition of self exaltation instead of lifting up God and building each other up.
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