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Amelia Gillen

For God is not a God of confusion but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints,

Nov 4

Amelia Gillen

If there is anything they desire to learn, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church.

Nov 4

Amelia Gillen

highlighted 1 Corinthians 14:28 ESV

But if there is no one to interpret, let each of them keep silent in church and speak to himself and to God.

Nov 4

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highlighted 1 Corinthians 14:26 ESV

What then, brothers? 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.

Nov 4

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highlighted 1 Corinthians 14:20 ESV

Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.

Nov 4

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highlighted 1 Corinthians 14:17 ESV

For you may be giving thanks well enough, but the other person is not being built up.

Nov 4

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highlighted 1 Corinthians 14:15 ESV

What am I to do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will pray with my mind also; I will sing praise with my spirit, but I will sing with my mind also.

Nov 4

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highlighted 1 Corinthians 14:12 ESV

So with yourselves, since you are eager for manifestations of the Spirit, strive to excel in building up the church.

Nov 4

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highlighted 1 Corinthians 14:9 ESV

So with yourselves, if with your tongue you utter speech that is not intelligible, how will anyone know what is said? For you will be speaking into the air.

Nov 4

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highlighted 1 Corinthians 14:8 ESV

And if the bugle gives an indistinct sound, who will get ready for battle?

Nov 4

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highlighted 1 Corinthians 14:7 ESV

If even lifeless instruments, such as the flute or the harp, do not give distinct notes, how will anyone know what is played?

Nov 4

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highlighted 1 Corinthians 14:6 ESV

Now, brothers, if I come to you speaking in tongues, how will I benefit you unless I bring you some revelation or knowledge or prophecy or teaching?

Nov 4

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highlighted 1 Corinthians 14:1 ESV

Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.

Nov 4

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highlighted 1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV

So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Nov 3

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogantor rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.

Nov 3

Amelia Gillen

highlighted 1 Corinthians 13:3 ESV

If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Nov 3

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highlighted 1 Corinthians 13:2 ESV

And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

Nov 3

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highlighted 1 Corinthians 13:1 ESV

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Nov 3

Amelia Gillen

highlighted 1 Corinthians 12:11 ESV

All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills.

Oct 31

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highlighted 1 Corinthians 12:4-10 ESV

to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit;and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord;and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone.To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.For to one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit,to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit,

Oct 31

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