### Douay Rheims Bible

1st Corinthians 13

## The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians

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| # Chapter 14
#### 1 | Follow after charity, be zealous for spiritual gifts; but rather that you may prophesy.
#### 2 | For he that speaketh in a tongue, speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man heareth. Yet by the Spirit he speaketh mysteries.
#### 3 | But he that prophesieth, speaketh to men unto edification, and exhortation, and comfort.
#### 4 | He that speaketh in a tongue, edifieth himself: but he that prophesieth, edifieth the church.
#### 5 | And I would have you all to speak with tongues, but rather to prophesy. For greater is he that prophesieth, than he that speaketh with tongues: unless perhaps he interpret, that the church may receive edification.
#### 6 | But now, brethren, if I come to you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, unless I speak to you either in revelation, or in knowledge, or in prophecy, or in doctrine?
#### 7 | Even things without life that give sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction of sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped ?
#### 8 | For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle ?
#### 9 | So likewise you, except you utter by the tongue plain speech, how shall it be known what is said ? For you shall be speaking into the air.
#### 10 | There are, for example, so many kinds of tongues in this world; and none is without voice.
#### 11 | If then I know not the power of the voice, I shall be to him to whom I speak a barbarian; and he that speaketh, a barbarian to me.
#### 12 | So you also, forasmuch as you are zealous of spirits, seek to abound unto the edifying of the church.
#### 13 | And therefore he that speaketh by a tongue, let him pray that he may interpret.
#### 14 | For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is without fruit.
#### 15 | What is it then ? I will pray with the spirit, I will pray also with the understanding; I will sing with the spirit, I will sing also with the understanding.
#### 16 | Else if thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that holdeth the place of the unlearned say, Amen, to thy blessing ? because he knoweth not what thou sayest.
#### 17 | For thou indeed givest thanks well, but the other is not edified.
#### 18 | I thank my God I speak with all your tongues.
#### 19 | But in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that I may instruct others also; than ten thousand words in a tongue.
#### 20 | Brethren, do not become children in sense: but in malice be children, and in sense be perfect.
#### 21 | In the law it is written: In other tongues and other lips I will speak to this people; and neither so will they hear me, saith the Lord.
#### 22 | Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to believers, but to unbelievers; but prophecies not to unbelievers, but to believers.
#### 23 | If therefore the whole church come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in unlearned persons or infidels, will they not say that you are mad ?
#### 24 | But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not, or an unlearned person, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all.
#### 25 | The secrets of his heart are made manifest; and so, falling down on his face, he will adore God, affirming that God is among you indeed.
#### 26 | How is it then, brethren ? When you come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a revelation, hath a tongue, hath an interpretation: let all things be done to edification.
#### 27 | If any speak with a tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and in course, and let one interpret.
#### 28 | But if there be no interpreter, let him hold his peace in the church, and speak to himself and to God.
#### 29 | And let the prophets speak, two or three; and let the rest judge.
#### 30 | But if any thing be revealed to another sitting, let the first hold his peace.
#### 31 | For you may all prophesy one by one; that all may learn, and all may be exhorted:
#### 32 | And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.
#### 33 | For God is not the God of dissension, but of peace: as also I teach in all the churches of the saints.
#### 34 | Let women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted them to speak, but to be subject, as also the law saith.
#### 35 | But if they would learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is a shame for a woman to speak in the church.
#### 36 | Or did the word of God come out from you ? Or came it only unto you ?
#### 37 | If any seem to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him know the things that I write to you, that they are the commandments of the Lord.
#### 38 | But if any man know not, he shall not be known.
#### 39 | Wherefore, brethren, be zealous to prophesy; and forbid not to speak with tongues.
#### 40 | But let all things be done decently, and according to order.

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