1 CORINTHIANS
Chapter 14, Verses 1-5
“Tongues, Interpretations, And Prophecy!”
[5-24-22]
Review: The More Excellent Way!”
1 Corinthians 12:31) [NAS] But earnestly desire the greater gifts. And I show you a still more excellent way.
1 Corinthians 13:8-13) [NAS] Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away.
9) For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;
10) but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away.
QUESTION: When will these gifts cease to function?
ANSWER: They will cease to function when “perfection comes.”
11) When I was a child, I used to speak as a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things.
QUESTION: What is Paul doing in this verse?
ANSWER: He’s showing us that Spiritual gifts, as great as they are, are like child’s play when compared to the perfection that’s coming.
12) For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I shall know fully just as I also have been fully known.
13) But now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
QUESTION: What is Paul doing in this verse?
ANSWER: He’s showing us that as great as faith and hope are, love is better. Why? Love is eternal!
QUESTION: What do verses 12 and 13 show us regarding the coming perfection?
ANSWER: Coming perfection represents that time when we no longer “see but a poor reflection as in a mirror,” but we “shall see face to face.” When will that happen?
QUESTION: When will that happen?
ANSWER: Please note:
1 John 3:2) [NAS] Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we shall be. We know that, when He appears, we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him just as He is.
QUESTION: What is the coming perfection?
ANSWER: It’s not talking about the completion of New Testament revelation, as some suggest. It’s talking about a time when we have complete knowledge and when faith and hope is no longer necessary, but love will remain, because love is eternal; and love is God!
This Week’s Lesson: “Tongues, Interpretations, And Prophecy!”
1 Corinthians 14:1-5) [NAS] Pursue love, yet desire earnestly spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.
1 Corinthians 12:31) But earnestly desire the greater gifts. And I show you a still more excellent way.
QUESTION: What do you notice when comparing the two verses above?
ANSWER: 12:31 tells us to “desire the greater gifts,” and then introduces the “more excellent way,” love. 14:1 tells us to “pursue love,” and then picks up where chapter 12 ends.
QUESTION: Regarding Spiritual gifts, is verse 1 telling us that prophecy is the one we should desire the most?
**ANSWER: No! Please note verses 2-4.
2) For one who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men, but to God; for no one understands, but in his spirit he speaks mysteries.
3) But one who prophesies speaks to men for edification and exhortation and consolation.
4) One who speaks in a tongue edifies himself; but one who prophesies edifies the church.
QUESTION: Again, is prophecy the Spiritual gift we should desire the most?
ANSWER: No! Paul is only showing us that prophecy is to be preferred over tongues.
QUESTION: Why is prophecy to be preferred above tongues?
ANSWER: When I speak in tongues I am only speaking to God; the congregation isn’t edified. When I prophesy I am speaking the very Word of God to the congregation; the members are then edified, exhorted, and comforted.
QUESTION: Why is prophecy to be preferred above tongues?
ANSWER: When I speak in tongues no one understands what I’m saying! It requires someone to interpret what I said while speaking in tongues, rather that someone is the individual who spoke iin tongues, or someone else.
QUESTION: What do we learn here about the gift of prophecy?
ANSWER: Regarding the nine gifts of the Spirit the gift of prophecy is limited to the ministry of edification, exhortation, and consolation. Then why do we have those three gifts if the one gift of prophecy can fulfill that same purpose?
NOTE: The gift of tongues and the gift of interpretation equals the gift of prophecy! I personally am convinced that the spiritual gift of prophecy is different from the ministry of the prophet!! Whereas the gift of prophecy is limited to the three things I mentioned above, that being “edification, exhortation, and consolation,” the office of the prophet would also operate in those three capacities, but would also be the ministry that would prophesy direction you should take in your life.
5) Now I wish that you all spoke in tongues, but even more that you would prophesy; and greater is one who prophesies than one who speaks in tongues, unless he interprets, so that the church may receive edifying.
QUESTION: Is Paul telling us that the individual who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongue?
ANSWER: No! Please note the CEV translation below:
(CEV) I am glad for you to speak unknown languages, although I had rather for you to prophesy. In fact, prophesying does much more good than speaking unknown languages, unless someone can help the church by explaining what you mean.
NOTE: Paul is simply telling us that prophecy benefits the church far more than tongues do.
QUESTION: If it requires both the gifts of speaking in tongues and the gift of interpretation to equal the gift of prophecy then why wouldn’t the Holy Spirit simply just give the congregation the single gift of prophecy, and do away with the gifts of tongues and interpretation?
MY HUMBLE OPINION: I personally believe that the gift of tongues is a beginner’s gift! When you are interpreting the message given in an unknown tongue, or you are prophesying, this chapter will tell us later on that those messages given that are supposedly the very words of Almighty God are to be judged by the others who have the gift of prophecy. The gift of speaking in tongues can’t be judged in the area of what is said because no one knows what was said until it is interpreted. That takes the pressure off the individual who might be a beginner in the ministry of the nine gifts of the Spirit.
NOTE: The one area that might be judged in the beginner’s message in tongues might be in the sense of was it given as the appropriate time during the service?
A CLOSING NOTE: It is necessary for those who are responsible for the doctrine of the assembly to judge all messages that are given through the gift of interpretation and the gift of prophecy. Someone might be quite sincere, but if they’re not grounded in sound doctrine they might “prophesy” something that is not Scriptural. We must correct that message given in a gentle, but firm way!!
1 CORINTHIANS
Chapter 14, Verses 6-19
“Speaking In Tongues Or Praying In Tongues?”
[5-31-22]
Review: “Tongues, Interpretations, And Prophecy!”
1 Corinthians 14:1-5) [NAS] Pursue love, yet desire earnestly spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.
(CEV) I am glad for you to speak unknown languages, although I had rather for you to prophesy. In fact, prophesying does much more good than speaking unknown languages, unless someone can help the church by explaining what you mean.
NOTE: Paul is simply telling us that prophecy benefits the church far more than tongues do.
2) For one who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men, but to God; for no one understands, but in his spirit he speaks mysteries.
3) But one who prophesies speaks to men for edification and exhortation and consolation.
4) One who speaks in a tongue edifies himself; but one who prophesies edifies the church.
QUESTION: Again, is prophecy the Spiritual gift we should desire the most?
ANSWER: No! Paul is only showing us that prophecy is to be preferred over tongues.
QUESTION: Why is prophecy to be preferred above tongues?
ANSWER: When I speak in tongues I am only speaking to God; the congregation isn’t edified. When I prophesy I am speaking the very Word of God to the congregation; the members are then edified, exhorted, and comforted.
5) Now I wish that you all spoke in tongues, but even more that you would prophesy; and greater is one who prophesies than one who speaks in tongues, unless he interprets, so that the church may receive edifying.
(CEV) I am glad for you to speak unknown languages, although I had rather for you to prophesy. In fact, prophesying does much more good than speaking unknown languages, unless someone can help the church by explaining what you mean.
QUESTION: Is Paul telling us that the individual who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongue?
ANSWER: No! Please note the CEV translation below:
(CEV) I am glad for you to speak unknown languages, although I had rather for you to prophesy. In fact, prophesying does much more good than speaking unknown languages, unless someone can help the church by explaining what you mean.
NOTE: Paul is simply telling us that prophecy benefits the church far more than tongues do.
This Week’s Lesson: “Speaking In Tongues Or Praying In Tongues?”
1 Corinthians 14:6-19) But now, brethren, if I come to you speaking in tongues, what shall I profit you, unless I speak to you either by way of revelation or of knowledge or of prophecy or of teaching?
QUESTION: Why doesn’t tongues hold the same position as prophecy?
ANSWER: The congregation can’t understand tongues. We should speak to one another “by way of revelation or of knowledge or of prophecy or of teaching.” In other words, the one addressing the congregation should be speaking in words that they understand.
7) Yet even lifeless things, either flute or harp, in producing a sound, if they do not produce a distinction in the tones, how will it be known what is played on the flute or on the harp?
8) For if the bugle produces an indistinct sound, who will prepare himself for battle?
9) So also you, unless you utter by the tongue speech that is clear, how will it be known what is spoken? For you will be speaking into the air.
QUESTION: What is Paul showing us here?
ANSWER: Even instruments must make a distinct sound in order to benefit us, such as the sound that tells us when to march to battle.
QUESTION: How does that relate to our discussion of tongues and prophecy?
ANSWER: If no one understands what I’m speaking than I’m just “speaking into the air.”
10) There are, perhaps, a great many kinds of languages in the world, and no kind is without meaning.
11) If then I do not know the meaning of the language, I shall be to the one who speaks a barbarian, and the one who speaks will be a barbarian to me.
Regarding “barbarian,”
“a man who speaks a foreign or strange language, a foreigner” [Word Study Dictionary].
QUESTION: What is Paul telling us here?
**ANSWER: If the one talking and the one listening don’t speak the same language they are barbarians to one another.
12) So also you, since you are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek to abound for the edification of the church.
QUESTION: What is Paul telling us here?
ANSWER: In the final verse of chapter 12, and the first verse of this chapter, chapter 14, Paul tells us to desire spiritual gifts. In verse 12 above he’s telling his readers that they are, indeed, “zealous of spiritual gifts.” He is now telling us what criteria we ought to bear in mind when desiring these gifts. NOTE: That criteria is “the edification of the church,” which is another way of telling us what he told us in chapter 13, which is that loving the folk is the only thing we should have in mind when exercising any of the gifts.
13) Therefore let one who speaks in a tongue pray that he may interpret.
QUESTION: Why should the one who speaks to the congregation in tongues pray that he “may interpret”?
ANSWER: The reason is because until the interpretation is given NO ONE in the church has been edified. They haven’t understood a word spoken; therefore, it was wasted time unless someone gives us the interpretation of what was said.
***NOTE: Also note, the responsibility for the interpretation lies with the one who spoke in tongues. If there is no one else there who gives us the interpretation then the one who gave us the message in tongues is the one responsible for the interpretation.
14) For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful.
15) What is the outcome then? I shall pray with the spirit and I shall pray with the mind also; I shall sing with the spirit and I shall sing with the mind also.
QUESTION: What is Paul pointing out to us here?
ANSWER: He’s pointing out to us that when we pray in tongues we are “praying with the spirit,” and when we pray in our native tongue we are “praying with the mind.”
QUESTION: What else is Paul telling us here?
ANSWER: I believe that Paul is telling his readers that, though they thought that they were exercising the gift of tongues, they were, instead, praying in tongues.
*16) Otherwise if you bless in the spirit only, how will the one who fills the place of the ungifted say the “Amen” at your giving of thanks, since he does not know what you are saying?
17) For you are giving thanks well enough, but the other man is not edified.
QUESTION: Why is he talking about blessing the food now?
ANSWER: He’s still addressing the subject of praying in tongues. In this case he turns to the prayer of blessing the food. Again, he tells us that when we pray in tongues we are praying in the spirit.
QUESTION: What do we learn here?
ANSWER: Praying the prayer of blessing over the food should be done “with the mind,” in the language of the one praying.
18) I thank God, I speak in tongues more than you all;
*19) however, in the church I desire to speak five words with my mind, that I may instruct others also, rather than ten thousand words in a tongue.
QUESTION: What do we learn from the above two verses?
ANSWER: Paul was a tongue talker, but he talked in tongues, a.k.a., prayed in tongues, in his private prayer time, not in church. He spoke clearly, in a language everyone knew, when he was addressing the congregation.
1 CORINTHIANS
Chapter 14, Verses 20-25
“Tongues Are A Sign To Unbelievers!”
[6-5-22]
Review: “Speaking In Tongues Or Praying In Tongues?
1 Corinthians 14:15, 17-19) [NAS] What is the outcome then? I shall pray with the spirit and I shall pray with the mind also; I shall sing with the spirit and I shall sing with the mind also.
QUESTION: What is Paul pointing out to us here?
ANSWER: He’s pointing out to us that when we pray in tongues we are “praying with the spirit,” and when we pray in our native tongue we are “praying with the mind.”
QUESTION: What else is Paul telling us here?
ANSWER: Allow me to say that Paul is telling his readers that, though they thought that they were exercising the gift of tongues, they were, in stead, praying in tongues.
17) For you are giving thanks well enough, but the other man is not edified.
QUESTION: Why is he talking about blessing the food now?
ANSWER: He’s still addressing the subject of praying in tongues. In this case he turns to the prayer of blessing the food. Again, he tells us that when we pray in tongues we are praying in the spirit.
QUESTION: What do we learn here?
ANSWER: Praying the prayer of blessing over the food should be done “with the mind,” in the language of the one praying.
18) I thank God, I speak in tongues more than you all;
19) however, in the church I desire to speak five words with my mind, that I may instruct others also, but he talked in tongues, a.k.a., prayed in tongues in his private prayer rather than ten thousand words in a tongue.
QUESTION: What do we learn from the above two verses?
ANSWER: Paul was a tongue talker, time, not in church. He spoke clearly, in a language everyone knew, when he was addressing the congregation.
This Week’s Lesson: “Tongues Are A Sign To Unbelievers!”
1 Corinthians 14:20-25) [NAS] Brethren, do not be children in your thinking; yet in evil be babes, but in your thinking be mature.
QUESTION: What’s Paul doing here?
ANSWER: He wants his readers to think like adults; not with our emotions like little children. It’s all right to be infantile in one’s understanding of evil, but in all else we should be adults.
21) In the Law it is written, “By men of strange tongues and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people, and even so they will not listen to Me,” says the Lord.
***QUESTION: What is Paul talking about here?
Isaiah 28:7-13) [NAS] And these also reel with wine and stagger from strong drink: The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, They are confused by wine, they stagger from strong drink; They reel while having visions, They totter when rendering judgment.
8) For all the tables are full of filthy vomit, without a single clean place.
9) “To whom would He teach knowledge? And to whom would He interpret the message? Those just weaned from milk? Those just taken from the breast?
10) “For He says, ‘Order on order, order on order, Line on line, line on line, A little here, a little there.’”
IN HEBREW: “tzav latzav, tzav latzav, qav laqav, qav laquav”
“1) command, ordinance, oracle (meaning dubious); 1a) used in mocking mimicry of Isaiah’s words and thus not a true divine command” [BDB].
11) Indeed, He will speak to this people through stammering lips and a foreign tongue,
**12) He who said to them, “Here is rest, give rest to the weary,” and, “Here is repose,” but they would not listen.
13) So the word of the LORD to them will be, “Order on order, order on order, Line on line, line on line, A little here, a little there,” That they may go and stumble backward, be broken, snared, and taken captive.
QUESTION: In quoting Isaiah 28:10-11, what was Paul showing his readers?
ANSWER: The children of Israel in Isaiah’s day wouldn’t listen to the sound words of the genuine prophets because the so-called prophets, along with the priests, were enticing them with the words of drunks.
QUESTION: What was God’s response to them in the days of Isaiah?
ANSWER: Since they wouldn’t listen to the sound word of God that came through the genuine prophets, such as Isaiah, God spoke to them in words they couldn’t understand. He sent invading armies from foreign lands to take them captive.
QUESTION: What is Isaiah talking about when he mentions “stammering lips and a foreign tongue”?
ANSWER: Though the words of the foreign invaders will be unintelligible to them, the message of God will be understood: “Listen to My words!”
22) So then tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe, but to unbelievers; but prophecy is for a sign, not to unbelievers, but to those who believe.
QUESTION: Why is he saying, “Tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe, but to unbelievers”?
***ANSWER: The reason God spoke to them with the language of the invading armies, a language they did not understand, is because they were rebellious and refused to listen to the message He sent them through his messenger, Isaiah, a message in the language they understood.
NOTE: Paul is telling us that if God was choosing to speak to the Christians at Corinth in a language they didn’t understand it would only be because they weren’t listening to the message they could understand. In other words, they were unbelievers.
23) If therefore the whole church should assemble together and all speak in tongues, and ungifted men or unbelievers enter, will they not say that you are mad?
24) But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or an ungifted man enters, he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all;
QUESTION: What is Paul talking about when he says “all speak in tongues,” and “all prophesy”?
ANSWER: Whatever he’s saying about one he’s saying about the other. In other words, if “all prophesy” means that they are taking turns, one by one, as he teaches in verse 31, then “all speak in tongues” also means one by one, or, one at a time.
NOTE: Paul is not telling the Corinthians that they can’t all speak in tongues at the same time in private worship, or prayers. What I mean is, that Christians were free to pray, or worship, in tongues if they weren’t drawing attention to themselves, if they weren’t addressing the congregation.
ANSWER: Paul is telling his readers that those unbelievers will say that those Christians in that church are “mad,” or crazy.
25) the secrets of his heart are disclosed; and so he will fall on his face and worship God, declaring that God is certainly among you.
ANSWER: Paul is telling his readers that those unbelievers will be convicted (vs. 24), and they will worship God and proclaim that God is among us.
QUESTION: Why?
ANSWER: The clear Word of God will disclose the very “secrets of his heart.”
NOTE: Many an individual has sat in a church when the Word of God was preached and thought that the preacher had been “reading his mail.”
QUESTION: Does the word “prophesy” here simply mean, “preaching.”
ANSWER: Many commentators lean that way, but Paul is teaching on the Spiritual gifts of tongues and prophecy. He is not teaching on the ministerial gift of teaching. However, preaching, as well as prophesying, can convict the heart of the unbeliever.
A CLOSING NOTE: Paul is telling us that God would only choose to speak in unintelligible words to us if we weren’t listening to intelligible ones. Therefore, “tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe, but to unbelievers.” Let me put it this way: if God were speaking to us that way it would be a sign that we weren’t true believers. He speaks to true believers in words they can understand.
1 CORINTHIANS
Chapter 14, Verses 26-40
“Instruction Manual For Tongues And Prophecy!”
[6-7-22]
Review: “Tongues Are A Sign To Unbelievers!”
1 Corinthians 14:22-25) [NAS] So then tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe, but to unbelievers; but prophecy is for a sign, not to unbelievers, but to those who believe.
23) If therefore the whole church should assemble together and all speak in tongues, and ungifted men or unbelievers enter, will they not say that you are mad?
24) But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or an ungifted man enters, he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all;
NOTE: Paul is not telling the Corinthians that they can’t all speak in tongues at the same time in private worship, or prayers. What I mean is, that Christians were free to pray, or worship, in tongues if they weren’t drawing attention to themselves, if they weren’t addressing the congregation.
QUESTION: Then what is Paul saying will happen if unbelievers come into the church and the Christians in the church take turns, one by one, speaking in tongues?
ANSWER: He’s telling his readers that those unbelievers will say that those Christians in that church are “mad,” or crazy.
25) the secrets of his heart are disclosed; and so he will fall on his face and worship God, declaring that God is certainly among you.
QUESTION: Does the word “prophesy” here simply mean, “preaching.”
ANSWER: Many commentators lean that way, but Paul is teaching on the Spiritual gifts of tongues and prophecy. He is not teaching on the ministerial gift of teaching. However, preaching, as well as prophesying, can convict the heart of the unbeliever.
A CLOSING NOTE: Paul is telling us that God would only choose to speak in unintelligible words to us if we weren’t listening to intelligible ones. Therefore, “tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe, but to unbelievers.” Let me put it this way: if God were speaking to us that way it would be a sign that we weren’t true believers. He speaks to true believers in words they can understand.
This Week’s Lesson: “Instruction Manual For Tongues And Prophecy!”
1 Corinthians 14:26-40) [NAS] 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.
NOTE: There is a place for individuals to use their talents and their gifts in the worship service, so long as it is being done in such a way that others are being edified.
***NOTE: Regarding “each one has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation,” those things tend to happen in every service. Usually before, or during a sermon/“teaching” a “psalm”/Scripture is read, and hopefully in that “teaching” there will be some form of “revelation” coming forth.
ANOTHER NOTE: This “revelation” could also come in the form of a prophecy, a word of knowledge, a word of wisdom, or a discerning of spirits.
27) (NLT) No more than two or three should speak in an unknown language. They must speak one at a time, and someone must be ready to interpret what they are saying.
28) but if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent in the church; and let him speak to himself and to God.
NOTE Paul is stating that speaking in tongues should only happen “two, or at the most three” times in a service. He also says that each message in tongues should be given “each in turn,” and before another is given, the previous one must be interpreted.
QUESTION: What if no one interprets that first message in tongues?
ANSWER: Some would disagree with me, but I believe this passage is teaching us that if no one interprets a message in tongues there should be no more given in that service.
*29) And let two or three prophets speak, and let the others pass judgment.
QUESTION: Is this verse referring to those who have the ministerial gift of being called to be a prophet, or is it referring to those who have the spiritual gift of prophecy?
ANSWER: It’s most probable, in my opinion, that this rule would apply to both. However, this chapter is primarily teaching on the gifts of the Spirit, so I would assume the Spiritual gift is the one in Paul’s mind as he writes this.
QUESTION: What is the instruction Paul gives regarding this Spiritual gift of prophecy?
ANSWER: It’s similar to his instructions concerning tongues in that “two or three” should speak, but different in the sense that the “two or three” here, unlike the instructions regarding tongues, is referring to a set time in the service. However, during the course of that service, all who have this gift can prophesy, according to verse 31.
QUESTION: In what other way are the instructions concerning prophecy different that those concerning tongues?
ANSWER: When a prophecy is given it must be judged. When someone is prophesying they are claiming to be speaking the very Word of God; and we must judge rather their message delivered in that prophecy is consistent with the sound teaching of Scripture.
QUESTION: How do we judge the gift of prophecy?
2 Peter 1:19-21) [KJV] We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
20) Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
21) For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
NOTE: We judge prophecy by the “more sure word of prophecy,” which verse 19 of 2 Peter 1 tells us is the Scripture.
30) But if a revelation is made to another who is seated, let the first keep silent.
*31) For you can all prophesy one by one, so that all may learn and all may be exhorted;
32) and the spirits of prophets are subject to prophets;
33) for God is not a God of confusion but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints.
QUESTION: What is Paul telling us here?
ANSWER: Those who exercise the gift of prophecy, and those who are prophets, should not talk over one another. Of course, I doubt that would ever happen, but Paul is using the order of how the gifts are operated to demonstrate that the same order is required for the gift of tongues.
QUESTION: What is verse 32 telling us?
ANSWER: The individual exercising a gift has control over that gift. The Holy Spirit does not take control over that individual and make him/her do something.
34) Let the women keep silent in the churches; for they are not permitted to speak, but let them subject themselves, just as the Law also says.
35) And if they desire to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home; for it is improper for a woman to speak in church.
QUESTION: Are women forbidden to speak in church?
ANSWER: No! Philip had four daughters who prophesied {Acts 21:8-9}.
QUESTION: What is he teaching regarding women keeping silent in church then?
ANSWER: I’m not certain, but I have heard it taught that women sat on a different side of the church than the men did, and sometimes in this disorderly church a woman would shout across the room to her husband for information.
36) Was it from you that the word of God first went forth? Or has it come to you only?
37) If anyone thinks he is a prophet or spiritual, let him recognize that the things which I write to you are the Lord’s commandment.
38) But if anyone does not recognize this, he is not recognized.
QUESTION: What is the Apostle doing here?
ANSWER: He’s reminding his readers that they had received the Word of God; it didn’t originate with them. They must listen to the Apostle’s instruction or be ignored by the church.
39) Therefore, my brethren, desire earnestly to prophesy, and do not forbid to speak in tongues.
40) But let all things be done properly and in an orderly manner.
QUESTION: What’s his final instruction to the Corinthian church?
ANSWER: Speaking in tongues is to be allowed, but it must be done in an orderly fashion.