1 Corinthians 14:40 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴⁰Let all things be done decently and in order.

1 Corinthians 14:40 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

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Colossians 2:5
For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.
Titus 1:5
For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:
1 Corinthians 14:26-33
How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying. …
1 Corinthians 11:34
And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come.
Romans 13:13
Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.

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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. 40)

40. Let, &c.--The oldest manuscripts read, “But let,” &c. This verse is connected with 1Co 14:39, “But (while desiring prophecy, and not forbidding tongues) let all things be done decently.” “Church government is the best security for Christian liberty” [J. Newton]. (Compare 1Co 14:23, 26-33).