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Guidelines for Orderly Worship

1 Corinthians 14:26-40

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Chapter 14
26 What then is it, brothers? When you come together, each one has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has a tongue, has an interpretation. Let all things happen for edification. 27 If anyone speaks in a tongue, let it be by two or at most three, and in turn, and let one interpret. 28 But if there is no interpreter, let him be silent in the church. But let him speak to himself and to God. 29 But let two or three prophets speak, and let the others discern. 30 But if something is revealed to another who is sitting there, let the first one be silent. 31 For you can all prophesy one by one, so that all may learn and all may be encouraged. 32 And the spirits of prophets are subject to prophets. 33 For God is not a God of disorder but of peace—as in all the churches of the saints. 34 Women in the churches must be silent, for they are not permitted to speak. But let them be submissive, just as the law also says. 35 But if they want to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is shameful for a woman to speak in church. 36 Did the word of God go out from you, or did it arrive to you alone? 37 If anyone seems to be a prophet or spiritual, let him recognize the things that I write to you—that they are of the Lord. 38 But if anyone ignores this, let him be ignored. 39 Therefore, my brothers, be zealous to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues. 40 But let all things be done decently and in order.