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NASB | 1 Corinthians 14:6 ¶ But now, brethren, if I come to you speaking in tongues, what will I profit you unless I speak to you either by way of revelation or of knowledge or of prophecy or of teaching? |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Corinthians 14:6 ¶ Now, believers, if I come to you speaking in unknown tongues, how will I benefit you unless I also speak to you [clearly] either by revelation [revealing God's mystery], or by knowledge [teaching about God], or by prophecy [foretelling the future, speaking a new message from God to the people], or by instruction [teaching precepts that develop spiritual maturity]? |
Subject: Acts 2:2 |
Bible Note: Dear Brother Mark, I am only "set" in my beliefs to the extent that I am persuaded by Scripture. God has graciously given the Word of God, the illumination of the Holy Spirit, the teaching of Godly men, and the body of Christ that we might grow in the deep knowledge of the things of God. I served in Full Gospel circles for over ten years. At that time, I could not be persuaded by the written or spoken word! Boy, was I ever "set!" God has seen fit to correct me. I no longer have a vested interest in my theology. I only seek to know God as well as He has given me to know Him. Thank you, Lord! (I am also grateful to you and others in the forum for helping me in that effort.) In the mean time, I do not posit any of this as universal truisms, as is the practice of some. I merely present a single, cogent, approach that seeks to handle Scripture as rightly as possible. The church at Corinth had enormous problems, both in theology and in practice. We must understand the instruction of Paul in the light of that correction. As others have written, "The main things are the plain things." 1 Corinthians 14 is only incidentally about tongues. The clear admonition is to edify the body in the clarity of teaching. We do better to understand tongues in light of Acts -- and nothing in Paul's epistles dissuades us from that approach. Indeed, let us stick close to the plain reading of Scripture. By the way -- and also for the benefit of others not so set in their ways -- Robert Zerhusen does an excellent and detailed study of tongues in 1 Corinthians 14: http://www.alliancenet.org/partner/Article_Display_Page/ 0,,PTID307086[pipe]CHID560462[pipe]CIID1415642,00.html (Replace the [pipe] with pipe or bar symbol (shift back-slash) just above the Enter key. Note that I split it into two lines to avoid display problems in my post.) We can be thankful that we can draw on the work of so many men who have given their lives to the study of Scripture. In Him, Doc PS Correcting Barnes, Gill, JFB, Henry, Darby, Calvin, and the many contributors of the Geneva Study Bible in one post is quite ambitious -- but you did, indeed, seem to accomplish it without the disavowed disrespect! :-) Glossa in cheek: They might have not erred if they had had the council of such highly learned and esteemed luminaries as Parham, Roberts, and Swaggart! :-) |