Book of Common Prayer

²⁶ How is it then, brethren? When you come together, each one has his song, has his word, has his tongue, has his revelation, has his interpretation. Let all things be done for edifying. ²⁷ If any man speaks with tongues, let it be two in all, or at the most three in all, and that by turn; and let another interpret it. ²⁸ But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silence in the congregation, and let him speak to himself and to God.

²⁹ Let the prophets speak two in all, or three in all, and let the others judge. ³⁰ If any revelation is made to another who sits by, let the first hold his peace. ³¹ For you may all prophesy one by one, so that all may learn, and all may have comfort. ³² For the spirits of the prophets are in the control of the prophets. ³³ For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as he is in all other congregations of the saints.

³⁷ If anyone thinks himself a prophet, or spiritual, let him understand the things I write to you. For they are the commandments of the Lord. ³⁸ But if anyone is ignorant, let him be ignorant.

³⁹ And so, brethren, desire to prophesy, and do not forbid to speak with tongues. ⁴⁰ And let all things be done decently and in order.

³⁴ Think not that I have come to send peace into the earth. I came not to send peace, but a sword. ³⁵ For I have come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. ³⁶ And a man’s enemies will be those of his own household.

³⁷ He who loves his father or mother more than me, is not meet for me. And he who loves his son or daughter more than me, is not meet for me. ³⁸ And he who does not take up his cross and follow me, is not meet for me. ³⁹ He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for my sake, will find it.

⁴⁰ He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me, receives him who sent me. ⁴¹ He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward. And he who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man, will receive the reward of a righteous man. ⁴² And whosoever gives one of these little ones to drink a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, I tell you of a truth, he shall not lose his reward.