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Therefore, brothers, desire earnestly to prophesy, and don`t forbid speaking with other languages.
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Prophecy is the Priority
Commentators agree that this verse is Paul's summary conclusion to the chapter. The primary command is to earnestly desire the gift of prophecy because it is the most useful for building up the entire church. The permission to speak in tongues is secondary, correcting the Corinthian church's misplaced emphasis on the more spectacular but less broadly edifying gift.
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1 Corinthians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Covet to prophesy. (See Barnes on 1 Corinthians 14:1.)
This is the summing up of all that Paul had said. It was desirab…
19th Century
Anglican
Therefore, brothers.—The practical summing up of the whole matter. Seek earnestly to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with to…
These closing verses revert to prophecy and tongues. Paul urges the Corinthians to keep on desiring to prophesy and not to prohibit people from spe…
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16th Century
Protestant
Wherefore, brethren, this is the conclusion in connection with the principal question—that prophecy is to be preferred to other g…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy The apostle now draws to a conclusion, and reassumes the exhortation he gave …
When the apostle exhorts Christian women to seek information on religious subjects from their husbands at home, it shows that believing families sh…
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13th Century
Catholic
Here the Apostle mentions the people to whom the use of prophecy is forbidden. He does two things in this regard: first, he shows to whom the use o…
