McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries
1 Corinthians 14:39
Wherefore, my brethren, desire earnestly to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.
Wherefore, my brethren, desire earnestly to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.
Verse 39. _COVET TO PROPHESY_] Let it be your endeavour and prayer to be able to _teach the way of God_ to the ignorant; this is the most _valuable_, because the most _useful_ gift of the Spirit. _A...
COVET TO PROPHESY - See the note at 1 Corinthians 14:1. This is the “summing up” of all that he had said. It was “desirable” that a man should wish to be able to speak, under the teaching of the Holy...
4. PROPHECY AND SPEAKING WITH A TONGUE. CHAPTER 14 _ 1. Prophecy the better gift. (1 Corinthians 14:1 .)_ 2. Intelligibility demanded. (1 Corinthians 14:14 .) 3. Practical instructions for the publ...
Paul now lays down the rules. At present at their assemblies all are eager to speak in one way or another. But the edification of the Church is to be the governing principle. Two may speak in tongues,...
Let women keep silent in the congregation, for it is not permitted to them to speak, but let them be in subjection even as the law says. If they wish to learn about anything, let them question their h...
THE FALSE AND THE TRUE WORSHIP (1 Corinthians 14:1-19)...
COVET. Same as desire, 1 Corinthians 14:1....
Regulations to insure decency and order 26. _hath a psalm_ The Apostle here reproves another fault. Not only are the Corinthians ambitious rather of the gifts which attract attention, than of those wh...
_Wherefore, brethren_ The Apostle, as is his wont, sums up the whole section in a few concluding words. Prophecy is a gift to be earnestly sought (see for _covet_, the note on ch. 1 Corinthians 12:31)...
ΜΟΥ. אAB Peshito. Rec. om. with DEFG Vetus Lat. Vulg. 39. ὭΣΤΕ, ἈΔΕΛΦΟΊ. The Apostle, as is his wont, sums up the whole section in a few concluding words. Prophecy is a gift to be earnestly sought (s...
REGULATIONS TO INSURE DECENCY AND ORDER...
_THE PROPER USE OF SPIRITUAL GIFTS -- 1 CORINTHIANS 14:26-40:_ Paul wanted it understood that when the church met for worship that everything that was done must be done for the good of all that were p...
ΏΣΤΕ (G5620) следовательно. Это вывод и итоги предыдущего обсуждения, ΖΗΛΟΎΤΕ _praes. imper. act. от_ ΖΗΛΌΩ, _см._ 1 Corinthians 14:1. ΠΡΟΦΗΤΕΎΕΙΝ _praes. act. inf. от_ ΠΡΟΦΗΤΕΎΩ (G4395) пророчество...
WHEREFORE, BRETHREN, COVET TO PROPHESY, &C.— "Therefore, to conclude all that I have been saying on these points, my advice to you, brethren, is, that you be earnestly desirous of obtaining and exerci...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 3 Perfecting With Decorum and Decency (1 Corinthians 14:26-40) 26 What then, brethren? When you come together, each one has a hymn, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue, or an...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Rules For Using Spiritual Gifts_ (20-40) _Text_ 1 Corinthians 14:20-40. Brethren, be not children in mind: yet in malice be ye babes, but in mind be men. 21 In the law it is wr...
Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues. COVET - earnestly desire with prayer, in submission to God's will. Stronger than "forbid not." He esteemed "prophecy...
24 Predicting, or foretelling, is not necessarily involved in the gift of prophecy. The prophet, in Scripture, is the mouthpiece or spokesman of God. He may speak of the past, the present, or the futu...
_(e) Spiritual Gifts (iii) The Gift of Tongues subordinate to Prophecy_ The Apostle in this chapter deals with the abuse of the gift of tongues which characterised the Corinthians, and declares that i...
COVET TO PROPHESY] This is to be 'earnestly desired' (RV); tongues are merely allowed....
SERVANTS OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 14 *PROPHECY AND TONGUES 14:1-40 1. THE EFFECT OF *PROPHECY 14:1-5 V1 Follow the way of love. You should be eager to have the gifts of th...
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 gift...
CHAPTER 20 SPIRITUAL GIFTS AND PUBLIC WORSHIP Is the first twenty-five verses of this chapter Paul gives his estimate of the comparative value of the two chief spiritual gifts: speaking with tongues...
1 Corinthians 14:39-40 restate the advice of 1 Corinthians 14:1 in the light of the subsequent discussion, moderating the Church's zeal for demonstrative charisms by insisting on the seemliness and go...
§ 49. FINAL INSTRUCTIONS ON CHURCH ORDER. In 1 Corinthians 14:34 ff. P. returns to the matter which he first touched upon in reproving the disorderly Church life at Cor [2180], _viz_., the irregular b...
ORDER OF CHURCH SERVICES 1 Corinthians 14:26 Again the Apostle sums up his directions in two simple rules: 1. _Let all things be done unto edifying;_ that is, to building up individual character, and...
The apostle now submitted certain gifts to the test of love. Prophesying is desirable because it edifies others. Then as to Tongues. It was a gift that enabled men to speak to God, perhaps in prayer,...
Paul's Appeal To God's Order The brethren at Corinth were acting as if God's word was revealed only to them and they could tell everyone else how to act. Actually, Paul had brought them the word. Thos...
(18) Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues. (18) Prophecy ought certainly to be retained and kept in congregations, and the gift of tongues is not to be forbidd...
“Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak in tongues. 40. But let all things be done decently and in order.” We have already seen again and again in this Epistle that after a se...
(23) If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad? (24) But...
As usual, the introductory words (1 Corinthians 1:1-3) of the epistle give us no little intimation of that which is to follow. The apostle speaks of himself as such "called [to be] an apostle of Jesus...
39._Wherefore, brethren _This is the conclusion in connection with the principal question — that _prophecy _is to be preferred to other gifts, because it is the most useful gift of all, while at the s...
Two Verses in this Chapter 14 demand a little attention (1 Corinthians 14:1-2 the 3rd and the 6th (1 Corinthians 14:3; 1 Corinthians 14:6). Verse 3 ...
WHEREFORE, BRETHREN, COVET TO PROPHESY,.... The apostle now draws to a conclusion, and reassumes the exhortation he gave in the beginning of the chapter, pressing the members of this church to desire...
Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues. Ver. 39. _Wherefore, brethren_] This he adds as a corollary, to prevent mistakes, as if that he were an enemy either to p...
_Wherefore, brethren_ To conclude this long discourse, and sum up the whole in a few words; _covet to prophesy_ To discourse about divine things in a way that will edify others; _and_ yet _forbid not_...
COVET TO PROPHESY; as the best gift. FORBID NOT TO SPEAK WITH TONGUES; as a gift good in its proper place, and when exercised in a proper way....
Final regulations:...
WHEREFORE, BRETHREN, COVET TO PROPHESY, AND FORBID NOT TO SPEAK WITH TONGUES....
Chapter 12 has shown the placing of every gift in its own place in the body by the Spirit of God. Chapter 13 insists on love as the pervading influence for unity and peace in the functioning of the bo...
34-40 When the apostle exhorts Christian women to seek information on religious subjects from their husbands at home, it shows that believing families ought to assemble for promoting spiritual knowle...
The apostle concludeth his discourse, summarily repeating all that he before had said. He had, 1 CORINTHIANS 14:2, encouraged their desire of spiritual gifts; all along the chapter he hath been magnif...
1 Corinthians 14:39 Therefore G5620 brethren G80 earnestly G2206 (G5720) prophesy G4395 (G5721) and G2532 not...
'Wherefore, my brothers, desire earnestly to prophesy, and do not forbid to speak with tongues. But let all things be done decently and in order.' So he now summarises the position to them as his 'bro...
THE USE OF SPIRITUAL GIFTS IN THE GATHERINGS OF GOD'S PEOPLE (14:1-40). Having raised us up to heaven Paul now brings us abruptly back to earth as he continues to advise on the use of spiritual gifts....
1 Corinthians 14:39. WHEREFORE (to wind up), MY BRETHREN, DESIRE EARNESTLY TO PROPHESY: ‘If bent on the possession and exercise of spiritual gifts, let prophecy be that which ye most covet,' AND (at t...
CONTENTS: Prophecy and speaking in tongues. The order of the ministry of this gift in the church. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Paul. CONCLUSION: That is the best and most eligible gift which best an...
What is the subject of this chapter? Does it refer to the constant manner in which worship was conducted in the primitive churches; or does it refer to the manner in which men possessed of secondary g...
SO THEN, MY BROTHERS. "Speaking God's message is still the most important of the gifts, but strange tongues have their place also....
CHAPTER XIV SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. He puts prophecy before the gift of tongues, because (_a_) it is of great use in edifying others, and tongues are not, unless some one interpret; (_b_) because...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 1 Corinthians 14:1. FOLLOW AFTER.—Taking up the thought of a “way,” 1 Corinthians 12:31; as this whole verse resumes the theme of 12, after the digression or episode of 13 “_Pursue_”...
EXPOSITION 1 CORINTHIANS 14:1 _The_ _gift of preaching superior to the gift_ _tongues_. 1 CORINTHIANS 14:1 FOLLOW AFTER CHARITY; literally, _chase; pursue. _The word is one of whi
So Paul exhorts, Follow after love and desire spiritual (1 Corinthians 14:1), But rather, that you may prophecy. We were told to covet earnestly the best gifts. Now, again, he is saying the same thi...
1 Corinthians 12:31; 1 Corinthians 14:1; 1 Corinthians 14:24; 1 Corinthians 14:25;...
TALKING IN TONGUES 1 Corinthians 14:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The need for spiritual guidance in the matter of tongues. The church of today is beset by a group of people who very dogmatically assert t...
Therefore — To sum up the whole....
For. close of the whole, he exhorts them earnestly to endeavour after the gift of prophesying, and not to forbid the use of the gift of tongues, provided the forementioned rules and directions before...