Howbeit in church (αλλα εν εκκλησια). Private ecstasy is one thing (cf. 2 Corinthians 12:1–9) but not in church worshi…

Yet in the church. In the Christian assembly. The word church does not refer to the edifice where Christians worshipped,…

I thank my God.—Here the Apostle resumes in the first person, coming back, after the parenthesis, to the continua…

Having said that he has the ability to speak in foreign tongues more than all of them (an ability he could properly use), Paul hastens to add he wo…

I would rather speak five words. This is spoken hyperbolically, unless you understand five words, as meaning five se…

Yet in the church I had rather speak five words
Referring not to the five books of Moses, as Jerom suggests, and muc…

There can be no agreement with prayers that are not understood. A truly Christian minister will seek much more to do spiritual good to people's sou…

Here the Apostle shows that the gift of prophecy excels the gift of tongues, using reasons from his own experience. In this regard, he does two thi…