²⁶ What is it then, my brothers? when you come together everyone has a holy song, or a revelation, or a tongue, or is giving the sense of it. Let everything be done for the common good.

¹⁹ Joining with one another in holy songs of praise and of the Spirit, using your voice in songs and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

¹⁹ So then, let us go after the things which make peace, and the things by which we may be a help to one another.

¹¹ So then, go on comforting and building up one another, as you have been doing.

⁷ But to every man some form of the Spirit's working is given for the common good.

⁸ For to one are given words of wisdom through the Spirit; and to another words of knowledge through the same Spirit:

⁹ To another faith in the same Spirit; and to another the power of taking away disease, by the one Spirit;

¹⁰ And to another the power of working wonders; and to another the prophet's word; and to another the power of testing spirits; to another different sorts of tongues; and to another the power of making clear the sense of the tongues:

¹⁶ Through whom all the body, being rightly formed and united together, by the full working of every part, is increased to the building up of itself in love.

¹⁰ For this cause I am writing these things while I am away, so that there may be need for me, when I am present, to make use of sharp measures, by the authority which the Lord has given me for building up and not for destruction.

¹⁹ It may seem to you that all this time we have been attempting to put ourselves in the right; but we are saying these things before God in Christ. For all things, dear brothers, are for your profit.

¹² So if you are desiring the things which the Spirit gives, let your minds be turned first to the things which are for the good of the church.

¹³ For this reason, let the man who has the power of using tongues make request that he may, at the same time, be able to give the sense.

²⁹ Let no evil talk come out of your mouth, but only what is good for giving necessary teaching, and for grace to those who give ear.

¹² For the training of the saints as servants in the church, for the building up of the body of Christ:

⁴⁰ Let all things be done in the right and ordered way.

²⁷ If any man makes use of a tongue, let it not be more than two, or at the most three, and in turn; and let someone give the sense:

⁴ He who makes use of tongues may do good to himself; but he who gives the prophet's word does good to the church.

⁵ Now though it is my desire for you all to have the power of tongues, it would give me more pleasure to be hearing the prophet's word from you; for this is a greater thing than using tongues, if the sense is not given at the same time, for the good of the church.

⁶ But, now, my brothers, if I come to you using tongues, what profit will it be to you, if I do not give you a revelation, or knowledge, or the word of the prophet, or teaching?