Prove all things (παντα [δε] δοκιμαζετε). Probably δε (but) is genuine. Even the gift of prophecy has to be tested ([Reference 1 C…

Prove all things. Subject everything submitted for your belief to the proper test. The word used here (dokimazete), is one that i…

Prove all things. The correct reading inserts a “but”: “I urge you to pay all reverence to the encouraging utterances of …

Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men. See that none re…

To balance the two prohibitions, Paul stipulates that all charismatic manifestations be tested with a view to accepting what is valid and disallowi…

Prove all things. Because rash men and deceiving spirits frequently pass off their trifles under the name of prophecy, prophe…

Prove all things
That are said by the prophets, all the doctrines which they deliver; hear them, though they have no…

We are to rejoice in creature-comforts as if we did not rejoice, and we must not expect to live many years and rejoice in them all; but if we rejoi…

Earlier, he showed them how they should remain subject to their bishops. Here he makes the same point from another point of view. Regarding this, h…