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NASB | 1 Corinthians 12:11 But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually just as He wills. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Corinthians 12:11 All these things [the gifts, the achievements, the abilities, the empowering] are brought about by one and the same [Holy] Spirit, distributing to each one individually just as He chooses. |
Subject: how do you speak in tongue |
Bible Note: Hello glory2godnow, I think the better question to ask is: Why would one want to seek the gift of speaking in tongues? Remember 1 Cor. 12:28, "All do not have gifts of healings, do they? All do not speak with tongues, do they? All do not interpret, do they?" No is implied. I believe a pure focus on tongues misses the essential point! Regardless of of where one is with the "sign gifts" the greater is so often overlooked and even ignored in this discussion! Paul explains the more "excellent way" leading into the great treatise on LOVE in 1 Cor. 13! Then, in 13:1, he warns that, "If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal." The chapter then ends with verse 13, "and now abide faith, hope, love, these; but the greatest (greater) of these is LOVE. He then starts Chap. 14 with the imperative to "Pursue love..." I would ask: Do we have the gift of love? If not, how do we get IT? Speaking the Truth in Love, BradK |