1 Corinthians 14:26
What is it then, my brothers? when you come together everyone has a holy song, or a revelation, or a tongue, or is giving the sense of it. Let everything be done for the common good.
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Romans 14:19So then, let us go after the things which make peace, and the things by which we may be a help to one another.
1 Corinthians 14:4He who makes use of tongues may do good to himself; but he who gives the prophet's word does good to the church.
1 Corinthians 14:27If any man makes use of a tongue, let it not be more than two, or at the most three, and in turn; and let someone give the sense:
2 Corinthians 12:19It may seem to you that all this time we have been attempting to put ourselves in the right; but we are saying these things before God in Christ. For all things, dear brothers, are for your profit.
Ephesians 4:12For the training of the saints as servants in the church, for the building up of the body of Christ:
Ephesians 4:29Let no evil talk come out of your mouth, but only what is good for giving necessary teaching, and for grace to those who give ear.
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 14:22-26
On Spiritual Gifts. ( a. d. 57.) 21 In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord. 22 Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying serveth not for them that believe not, but for them which believe. 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… Read the whole commentary →