1 Corinthians 14:39 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³⁹Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.

1 Corinthians 14:39 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 12:31
But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.
1 Corinthians 14:1
Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.
1 Thessalonians 5:20
Despise not prophesyings.
1 Corinthians 14:3
But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort.
1 Corinthians 14:5
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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Tongues (the Gift)

Commentary

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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 39)

39. covet--earnestly desire. Stronger than “forbid not”; marking how much higher he esteemed “prophecy” than “tongues.”