Pursue love and strive for the spiritual gifts, and especially that you may prophesy.
For those who speak in a tongue do not speak to other people but to God; for nobody understands them, since they are speaking mysteries in the Spirit.
On the other hand, those who prophesy speak to other people for their building up and encouragement and consolation.
Those who speak in a tongue build up themselves, but those who prophesy build up the church.
Now I would like all of you to speak in tongues, but even more to prophesy. One who prophesies is greater than one who speaks in tongues, unless someone interprets, so that the church may be built up.
Therefore, one who speaks in a tongue should pray for the power to interpret.
For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays but my mind is unproductive.
Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking; rather, be infants in evil, but in thinking be adults.
What should be done then, my friends? When you come together, each one has a hymn, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. Let all things be done for building up.
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