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NASB | 1 Corinthians 14:26 ¶ What is the outcome then, brethren? When you assemble, each one has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has a tongue, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Corinthians 14:26 ¶ What then is the right course, believers? When you meet together, each one has a psalm, a teaching, a revelation (disclosure of special knowledge), a tongue, or an interpretation. Let everything be constructive and edifying and done for the good of all the church. |
Subject: Order of Worship |
Bible Note: Greetings Aixen! I will respond in two posts since we have two seperate issues. :-) 1) Worship: Worship is certainly tricky since Scripture doesn't clearly define it. There are many words that are translated as 'worship'. If one is to only use 'bow down' as THE word for worship, then one could restrict worship to prostration only. However, there is another word that is often used in combination with 'to bow down', and that is 'to serve'. This word is often translated as 'worship' as well. Notice why this is significant in Ex. 10:26: "Our livestock too must go with us; not a hoof is to be left behind. We have to use some of them in worshiping the LORD our God, and until we get there we will not know what we are to use to worship the LORD." Here, more than simply bowing down is clearly in view. It is in this latter sense that anything 'offered' to God can be seen as an act of worship. Ps. 95 is a good example of why we probably shouldn't use the word 'worship' just for the verb 'to bow down'. There are other actions that are commanded in Ps. 95. Are they any less 'worship' than bowing down? Or, have we artifically choosen only one word to mean 'worship'? Finally, Acts 17:25 makes no mention of the act of giving. It refers to God not 'needing' a temple within which to dwell. However, God did command the building of the temple as a place of worship. God didn't need any of the 'offerings' that He commanded, but He still commanded the Israelites to offer them. :-) Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |