1 Corinthians 14:12 — 1 Corinthians 14:32
12 So also you, since you are zealous of 1aspirits, seek that you may 2excel for the 3bbuilding up of the church.
13 Therefore let him who speaks in a tongue pray that he may ainterpret.
14 For if I pray in a tongue, my 1aspirit prays, but my 1bmind is unfruitful.
15 What then? I will pray with the aspirit, and I will pray 1also 2with the mind; I will bsing with the spirit, and I will csing 1also 2with the mind.
16 Otherwise if you abless with the spirit, how shall he who fills the place of the 1unlearned in tongues say the 2bAmen at your giving of cthanks, since he does not know what you are saying?
17 For you give thanks well, but the other is not 1abuilt up.
18 I thank God, I speak in tongues more than all of you,
19 But in the church I would rather aspeak 1five words 2with my mind, that I might instruct others also, than 1ten thousand words in a tongue.
20 Brothers, do not be 1achildren in your 2understanding, but in bmalice be cbabes and in your 2understanding be 3dfull-grown.
21 In the 1alaw it is written, 2b“By those of other tongues and with the lips of others I will speak to this people; even so they will not listen to Me, says the Lord.”
22 So then tongues are for a 1sign, not to those who believe but to the unbelievers; but prophecy is for a sign not to the unbelievers but to those who believe.
23 If therefore the whole church acomes together in one place, and 1all speak in tongues, and some unlearned in tongues or unbelievers enter, will they not say that you are 2binsane?
24 But if 1aall prophesy and some unbeliever or unlearned person enters, he is 2convicted by all, he is 2examined by all;
25 The secrets of his aheart become manifest; and so bfalling on his face, he will worship 1God, declaring that indeed 1God is camong you.
26 What then, brothers? Whenever you acome together, each one 1has a bpsalm, has a cteaching, has a drevelation, has a etongue, has an finterpretation. Let all things be done for 2gbuilding up.
27 If anyone speaks in a tongue, it should be by atwo, or at the most three, and in turn, and one should interpret;
28 But if there is no interpreter, he should be silent ain the 1church, and speak to himself and to God.
29 And as to prophets, atwo or three should speak, and the others 1bdiscern.
30 But if something is revealed to another sitting by, the first should be silent.
31 For 1you can aall prophesy one by one that all may learn and all may be 2encouraged.