1 Corinthians 14:26-15:11

New King James Version

Order in Church Meetings

²⁶ How is it then, brethren? Whenever you come together, each of you has a psalm, ^(A)has a teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. ^(B)Let all things be done for ^[a]edification. ²⁷ If anyone speaks in a tongue, let there be two or at the most three, each in turn, and let one interpret. ²⁸ But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent in church, and let him speak to himself and to God. ²⁹ Let two or three prophets speak, and ^(C)let the others judge. ³⁰ But if anything is revealed to another who sits by, ^(D)let the first keep silent. ³¹ For you can all prophesy one by one, that all may learn and all may be encouraged. ³² And ^(E)the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets. ³³ For God is not the author of ^[b]confusion but of peace, ^(F)as in all the churches of the saints.

^34 (G)Let ^[c]your women keep silent in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak; but they are to be submissive, as the ^(H)law also says. ³⁵ And if they want to learn something, let them ask their own husbands at home; for it is shameful for women to speak in church.

³⁶ Or did the word of God come originally from you? Or was it you only that it reached? ^37 (I)If anyone thinks himself to be a prophet or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things which I write to you are the commandments of the Lord. ³⁸ But ^[d]if anyone is ignorant, let him be ignorant.

³⁹ Therefore, brethren, ^(J)desire earnestly to prophesy, and do not forbid to speak with tongues. ^40 (K)Let all things be done decently and in order.

The Risen Christ, Faith’s Reality^(L)

15 Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel ^(M)which I preached to you, which also you received and ^(N)in which you stand, ^2 (O)by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you—unless ^(P)you believed in vain.

³ For ^(Q)I delivered to you first of all that ^(R)which I also received: that Christ died for our sins ^(S)according to the Scriptures, ⁴ and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day ^(T)according to the Scriptures, ^5 (U)and that He was seen by ^[e]Cephas, then ^(V)by the twelve. ⁶ After that He was seen by over five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain to the present, but some have ^[f]fallen asleep. ⁷ After that He was seen by James, then ^(W)by all the apostles. ^8 (X)Then last of all He was seen by me also, as by one born out of due time.

⁹ For I am ^(Y)the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because ^(Z)I persecuted the church of God. ¹⁰ But ^(AA)by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all, ^(AB)yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. ¹¹ Therefore, whether it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.