39Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.
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But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.
Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.
Despise not prophesyings.
But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort.
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.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 36-40)In these verses the apostle closes his argument, 1. With a just rebuke of the Corinthians for their extravagant pride and self-conceit: they so managed with their spiritual gifts as no church did like them; they behaved in a manner by themselves, and would not easily endure control nor regulation. Now, says the apostle, to beat down this arrogant humour, “ Came the gospel out from you? Or came it…
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