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What does the Bible say about speaking in tongues?

Later Paul also writes about the gift of speaking in tongues, in 1 Corinthians 12 and 14. However, here he writes that the person speaking in tongues doesn’t speak in an understandable language: “no one understands him; however in his spirit he speaks mysteries.” 1 Corinthians 14:2. Yet this gift that has been given to believers can be of benefit to the recipients and used to edify others in Christian gatherings.

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1 Corinthians 14
King James Version
1 Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.

2 For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.

3 But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort.

4 He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church.

5 I would that ye all spake with tongues but rather that ye prophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.

6 Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine?

7 And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the 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 ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air.

10 There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification.

11 Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me.

12 Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church.

13 Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret.

14 For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.

15 What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.

16 Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned say Amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest?

17 For thou verily givest thanks well, but the other is not edified.

18 I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all:

19 Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.

20 Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.

21 In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord.

22 Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying serveth not for them that believe not, but for them which believe.

23 If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?

24 But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not, or one unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all:

25 And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling down on his face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth.

26 How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.

27 If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret.

28 But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.

29 Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge.

30 If any thing be revealed to another that sitteth by, let the first hold his peace.

31 For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.

32 And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.

33 For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.

34 Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law.

35 And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.

36 What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you only?

37 If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.

38 But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant.

39 Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophes

Omo, you got mind o.
Have you composed this long epistle before or just now?

On top wetin?

fatymore:


I sell fabrics and beddings...

Don't mind me jare, is my mind that was deceiving me.
Aje o ma wo'gba o

fatymore:
Wahala. If you don't have a val for tomorrow.dm me

Fatimo! What are you doing for a living?

It get why

What I will say is that we should be careful with whoever we would be mingle with even those educated ones that believe in ritualism works.
They can just wake up one day to practice what they believe in if the circumstances arises.

We shall not be a victim of skull mining.

Randy100:
Watch mrg Casio. She lied she bought it 25thousand as of 2016

At least she bought one, not those they won't spend kobo for their boyfriend.

shevchenko:
I wish nairaland usernames reflect their age

Haha, what's that for if I may ask?

Na another chance be dis but they won't show up, all they will be doing is giving stupid excuses such as "Our juju not meant for the tempting, come to this place, come to that place, the rest would be history".

All they will be doing is instill fear in people and making empty threats. If you are assured your juju is that much superb and efficacious, teleport from anywhere you are and come meet the man to harm him since you claim the ability of those supernatural stuffs with your juju. Or, just harm him from whereever you are since you have the ability of that one also.

He can't be so folish to just go to meet someone in private or undisclosed forest where they could murder him because of hate he is trying to reveals your lies and falsehood.

Hedonini:
Na so. The clout seeking generation.

His own sibling or parent or close associate might be struggling to raise just N100k to solve one problem or the other, but Don baba clout would bone face. Because there's no public acclaim to gain from quietly giving money to a sibling. He would rather give million million to a random stranger with sob story on twitter. That will trend and buy clout.

Jokers.

I beg, let appreciates him even if he does it for clout chasing because there many celebrities out there who can't play with their money even for chasing clout. They are very stingy

gypsey:
I have being using my IGBO last name since i was born in East london for more than 30 year I had the same problem right from the very first day in college, at one point it didn't bother me anymore. There is no way i am changing my last name, to what? Williams? Hosford? Norman? No way!

When I changed it ones or twice to an English translation "Kings" everything went smoothly until i changed it back since then i thought bollocks! to them! The pakis and Turks are using their muslim names like Khan, Uzgur, Tarik, Osman, mohamed and Chakrabati so what is wrong with using mine. Fork em!

But sometimes they reject people for jobs not because of their last names but because they are born in nigeria or holds a nigerian nationality sadly. Even Ghanians with their Ghanian last names still get decent jobs...

But i think things has changed in recent years people are employed now in cities regardless of their last names or country of origin..

In Wales it might be different because they are still sort of bacwards.

Have you ever visited Naija?

Why should I back off, I can't back off.
I will be trying my best to impress her and make her realize i'm the better offer

I know the highest bidder will take away the heart of most ladies out there.

PastorMIsBack:


Do the followers on Nairaland convert to cash?

that's not what he is trying to explain, he said if members of the Nairaland can be following oneanother on every social media like instag. and others, we will be earning more followers on every social medias

donbachi:
I just dey thing wetin i go do,to get 500million instagram followers.

Who get ideas,abeg.
E fit different from wetin i get for mind.

let us know what you got for mind first?

IKBARUTEN11:
Op, check your spiritual life. You may have a spirit wife

Haha!, how he would check if he got the sprititual wife you're talking about?

Simplelion:
Are you sure you don't have spiritual wife?......na question i ask oo, make una no rush my throat with different quote.

I laugh by your question in chinese's laugh

gypsey:
Yeeee!!! this one has woken up! from his/her religious slumber!! And the scam called church!

Some of your church members have being brainwashed to be Afraid to ask questions about the church finances, Be afriad to call Adegbole a crook! Church members has the right to question everything about their church business!


Well.. i call him a scammer and a crook!

Exactly man, that's the way of religious organisation, those people don't give a damn wether their people okay or not, all their priorities are "just make sure you come to the gathering even though you are sick and powerless, and make sure you pay your tithes, offering and money for church development even though you haven't eat on that particular day.

Just imagine, one of their member that has put his trust and confidence on them for this years along had a stray bullet, asked for help, all they could was telling them to ask for help at the social media. Where all the money they are accumulating from the so called members are going to?, it's for their personal uses.

I wish eyes of all these religionist could just open and realize they can worship their God if there is any not through those religion leaders who people think they are the way to reach Him.

Emperor88:


An airplane flies and it has nothing to do with spirituality. You can speak with someone as far Australia while you are in Nigeria and nothing is spiritual about it, we have nuclear weapons that can destroy a whole country and nothing is spiritual about it. Imagine Jesus was the one who created the airplane, they would have been shouting miracle.

Well said man, gba'yii joo

eddynaira125:
Nigerians you all should learn to respect yourself



What is all this Abrakadabra for


Religion is Making Nigeria to look stupid

Walaihi, they don't want to use their senses anymore.

headSmasher:
I know the poster is one of the pained kanu follower, he changed traditional means to juju, so tradition means juju, all this Igbo sef.

Mr intelligent can you elaborate for us what traditional means they were talking about if not juju?

IkemChris:


It is related to the topic oga, when a fellow woman like my wife will say don't ask them what to bring on the table.... The truth is there are some ladies who might be at the on the cross roads on issues like this... Imagine say them read this post now... We are meant to complement each other in relationships... But sometimes when women take the lead you go see the magic... Allow your woman to play your role sometimes and she will stop complaining, also learn how to play the role of a woman sometimes (especially when it comes to taking care of the kids) all these helps to build a better environment... Sorry say I had to break it down like this na your reasoning make me explain this way... Don't always attack people with posts sometimes no be wetin head tell hand to type na him e go type....

Oga shut up jo, all I did was asking a question since yourself didn't clarify your input wether it support the topic or oppose it in the first place.

I wouldn't have told you to shut up if you have answered my simple question without insulting me first

IkemChris:
Rubbish... It's my wife that brought the opportunity for me to travel out.... Stay here dey talk rubbish

So, if na your wife that brought you opportunity to travel abroad, how that be our business and how what you said related to the issue on ground?

Princess80:
Most times I see men asking the question of what ladies bring to the table.

Seriously, we aren't created to bring, we are to process, the man is the provider, he will bring everything for us to process.

If u give us bring sperm, we give u babies
If u give us groceries, we have to give u food
If u give a house, we give u a home
Give us frustration, and trust me, i will surely multiply it and give u hell.

In the bible, Adam had everything and had dominions over it, the woman only came to help him harvest his raw materials.

When it comes to finance, Oga it is 100% ur responsibility, I could only assist when my husband isn't making much and he had future plans or if I earn better than he does.
U can't share financial burden with me and still expect me to cater for the children, wash, cook, clean all alone and still gather enough strength for ur wahala at night.
Bringing money is the only thing a man does, why on earth will u share that very one with me? When I object, u will call me a feminist, Oga masculnist, I will not share.
Every other responsibility in a home belongs to me, while financial responsibilities must be shared abi.
Note: sharing financial burden and helping are two different things.

Oya let the insults pour 123 go.

Ok, we agreed your gender are not created to bring things to the table but you also should stop claiming gender equality with the same man your entitlement mentality has placed burden of man should provide it all.

Truthisunique3:
I have been a witness of spiritual power personally

Where I used to stay before at okene b4 I relocated I used to live around strong spiritual herbalists

I would see imams and some fake pastor trouping in at night to come see the herbalist opposite my house

So one-day we had a discussion and he told me those people where coming to wash their eyes in his shrine

I was interested not for monetary gains but just to have the power of seeing what others don't

I paid he prepared a soap i used in washing eyes for seven days, then on the seventh day I felt this dizziness so I slept, but when I woke up I could see things differently

If I needed to know about someone I would just process it in my head who is this person?

I would immediately start having vision flashes like i lived the life of this person since he was born, I can tell every major thing going on in this person life, including plans, and next target

I would symntanously be seeing these visions with the person as he is physically

I saw alot for many people but the thing is you never have solution to the people problem, just as you can't see beyond one year of that person's future life

I had to stop all that because i would literally be seeing some people carrying demons and alien creatures inside them, some would be threatening me if i expose them in the neighborhood

So I told the man to wash it off my face, thank God I did that before he died

So yes I have first hand experience on this things

Man I don't believe this fairytale you told

So, let everybody keeps to his beief but believing in money ritual wouldn't do society a good, secured and better place to be. Remember anybody can be a victim

Senomii:

We'd soon hear the news of ur horrible death, like those on discovery ID, bodies chopped off and dumped in forests

You see, that's how insecured and aggresived you are, believer of shit.
Just because of ordinary argument you are wishing your fellow human a horrible death. Anyway, wishes were not horses where beggar would ride

Truthisunique3:
you have said it all at the bolded

You can't see waves with your eyes just as you can't see spiritual waves

If you must see them it takes another spiritual telescope to see them not a physical one

This is where another spiritualist can telescope into a person's spiritual situation and tell him what is going on

Ok, let me ask you one question, have you in your life be a witness of any spiritual power or healing?

Truthisunique3:
I believe you can help him out instead of shifting goal post

You the believer of the physical should give me physical explanation to the things we see

You don't expect me that believe in the unseen to show you the unseen with your "physical eyes"

Can you show me electromagnetic waves with your eyes?

Yet you believe it is generated yet can't see it, yet it affects it's target

Man with all the science invention you have not still grab that is the only reality.

Man, you're mentioning "can we see waves". Truely we can't see waves with our naked eyes but there are telescopes and microscope to view it and scientific are making use of it to our advantages. There is experiment you can carry out to show of it existence and everybody can do it inasmuch you are showed the way to do it.

Man, what experiment can show the existence of spiritual.
You're talking about death. That's a natural thing, once you're a living thing you must die. Where it go after shouldn't be a reasonable doubt to believe in any spritiual realm you're talking about

Truthisunique3:
well you just belong to the "I am woke" follow crew, you don't even know what you believe in

I just give you a platform to convince me spiritual matters don't exist and you kept on repeating jargons

Now meditate upon this in your spare time, if science has no explanation on why life can't be created or brought back it has already proved the existence of a realm beyond it.

Like I said the evidence of these Yahoo rituals are everywhere in your streets etc, this is why there is a new surge for the rituals because it works

This is why illiterates without going to primary school are scamming PhD holders abroad who they hypnotize

Man, he is not the one to disprove your acclaim belief, get that into your skull, you, the believer of it should come out to prove it and the platform has been given but nobody come out.

ekob99:
At Op. In all fairness you should have also upload the emblem of Christians and Muslims too. Because it appears you are throwing subtly shade at ATR(African Traditional Religion). Muslims and Christians have their peculiar beliefs in getting rich same as ATR..
Everyone is entitled to their belief. God created Man and he gave man free will to chose between right and wrong. those ritual killings could still have been perpetrated by the so called Muslims and Christians.
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery my brother. Stop the hate on ATR. Real ATR converts don't engage in ritual killings of humans.

Nigeria is a free secular state and everyone should be free to practice their faith and promote their religion to win converts. Inferiority complex and brainwashing by the first missionaries has led so many of us to embrace foreign religion and label our original religion as backward and fetish.

That was how we almost abandon our traditional attires, music and language completely for that of the foreigners.

Man, with all level of your education, you're still reason this way.
Man, if everybody on earth are still reason like you, there will be no civilization.
Man endorse reality, anything that can't proven doesn't sound logical.


Proven your fetish beleif has been given a chance but nobody come out. What have you used your fetish beleif to invent, nothing, all what you do is promoting nonsense which doesn't work.


If we are still keeping saying all these shits work, we are not helping matter to eradicate using innocent soul for rituals because those fools would still believe in it and still practicing.

Reminds you, anybody can be a victim including you and I

SeriouslySense:
how does this generate money, lo, why was i born into this kind of primitive culture.

Does not work, its useless, those who use it, only cause harm to others and are less than human.

why would any sound thinking human being, think this kind of things work, so dumb.

I have never seen any scientific invention, means we really have low IQ, we should focus on increasing our IQ levels.

And thanks for sharing, love you all.

Man, well said, we black especially Naija needs a liberation for opening our eyes away from all those barbaric, ancient and fetish beleif that have been in circulation from our forefathers.

Haaakeem:
And some f%@lish atheists would still come here to claim that the shii does'nt work.

Until their ignorance would lead them to submit thier heads to the afonjas,thats when their eyes would be clear.

Bleep up man, those shit don't work. You are the one of those people promoting it to make it real to those gullible people like you who can't use their head to think.

TheKingsmann:
Even most Nigerians dat re tribalistic bigots will also be insulting whites for racism, most Nigerians re foolish and born hypocrites

Exactly, that's most of them enjoy doing.
A typical example of kettle called pot black

See what Naija have turned to, underage want to learn a quick and destructive way to accumulate wealth.



If our country still going this way and we do nothing to make it better, we would all suffer for it in the nearest future even those elites that see themselves untouchable.


Prevention is better than cure.

Poverty run away from my life




Make no people dey shame me say i'm lazy