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These signs will accompany those who have believed: in My name they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues;
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And tongues that looked like fire appeared to them, distributing themselves, and a tongue rested on each one of them.
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And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with different tongues, as the Spirit was giving them the ability to speak out.
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Cretans and Arabs—we hear them speaking in our own tongues of the mighty deeds of God.”
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For they were hearing them speaking with tongues and exalting God. Then Peter responded,
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And when Paul had laid hands upon them, the Holy Spirit came on them and they began speaking with tongues and prophesying.
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“Their throat is an open grave, With their tongues they keep deceiving,” “The venom of asps is under their lips”;
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and to another the effecting of miracles, and to another prophecy, and to another the distinguishing of spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, and to another the interpretation of tongues.
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And God has appointed in the church, first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, and various kinds of tongues.
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All do not have gifts of healings, do they? All do not speak with tongues, do they? All do not interpret, do they?
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The Excellence of Love
If I speak with the tongues of mankind and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
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Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away with; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away with.
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Now I wish that you all spoke in tongues, but rather that you would prophesy; and greater is the one who prophesies than the one who speaks in tongues, unless he interprets, so that the church may receive edification.
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But now, brothers and sisters, if I come to you speaking in tongues, how will I benefit you unless I speak to you either by way of revelation, or of knowledge, or of prophecy, or of teaching?
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I thank God, I speak in tongues more than you all;
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In the Law it is written: “By men of strange tongues and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people, and even so they will not listen to Me,” says the Lord.
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So then, tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe but to unbelievers; but prophecy is not for unbelievers, but for those who believe.
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Therefore if the whole church gathers together and all the people speak in tongues, and outsiders or unbelievers enter, will they not say that you are insane?
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Therefore, my brothers and sisters, earnestly desire to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues.
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And the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom became darkened; and they gnawed their tongues because of pain,
