1 Corinthians 14:27-33 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Corinthians 14:26-33

In this passage the apostle reproves them for their disorder, and endeavours to correct and regulate their conduct for the future. I. He blames them for the confusion they introduced into the assembly, by ostentation of their gifts (1 Cor. 14:26): When you come together every one hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, etc.; that is, ?You are apt to confound the several parts of worship; and, while one has a psalm to utter by inspiration, another has a doctrine, or revelation;? or else,... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Corinthians 14:26-33

14:26-33 What then emerges from all this, brothers? Whenever you meet together, let each have his psalm, let each have his teaching, let each have his message direct from God, let each have his tongue, let each have his interpretation. Let all things be done for the spiritual upbuilding of the congregation. If anyone speaks with a tongue, let it be two, or at the most three, and let them do it by turns, and let one interpret. If there is no interpreter present, let him who has the gift of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 14:27

If any man speak in an unknown tongue ,.... He begins with the gift of tongues, with speaking in an unknown tongue, as the Hebrew language, because this they were desirous of: and the rule for this he would have observed is, let it be by two, or at most by three, and that by course . The Arabic version reads it, "let him speak to two, or at most three, and separately"; as if it respected the number of persons he was to speak to at a time, and that in a separate and private manner: but... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 14:28

But if there be no interpreter ,.... None that has the gift of interpretation of divers tongues, and he that speaks with them has not that, which was sometimes the case: let him keep silence in the church ; let him not make use of his gift publicly before the whole congregation, since without an interpreter it will be entirely useless: and let him speak to himself, and to God ; he may make use of his gift to his own edification, and to the glory of God, by speaking with a low voice,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 14:29

Let the prophets speak, two or three ,.... The apostle having finished the rules for streaking with an unknown tongue, proceeds to lay down some for the gift of prophesying; and observes, that where there are a number of prophets, as very likely there were in the church at Corinth, two or three of them might prophesy, or explain the prophecies of the Old Testament, or preach the Gospel at one opportunity or meeting: he does not use that restrictive clause, "at most", as before, because if... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 14:30

If anything be revealed to another that sitteth by ,.... To another prophet that sits, and hears, and tries, and judges what he hears; if he has a clearer revelation made to him of what the other is speaking of, and has a more distinct knowledge of it, and is capable of removing any difficulty that attends it, and of expressing it more plainly, and of proving it more largely, and of setting it in an easier light to the understandings of men: let the first hold his peace ; be that was... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 14:31

For ye may all prophesy one by one ,.... Not every member of the church, but everyone that had the gift of prophecy; so that they were not confined to two or three prophets at a meeting, but as many as would, or as had anything to deliver, and as time would allow; only care must be taken that confusion be avoided, and order preserved by exercising in turns one after another. This was agreeably to the custom of the Jewish synagogue, in which more might read and speak, though but one at a... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 14:32

And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets. Meaning either that the doctrines which the prophets deliver, the explanations they give of passages of Scriptures, the revelations they declare, are subject to the examination, judgment, and censure of other prophets; who have a right to try and judge them, either according to a more clear revelation they may have, or rather according to the sure word of prophecy, the Scriptures of truth; and indeed they are subject to the trial... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 14:33

For God is not the author of confusion ,.... Or disorder, or "tumult", as the Syriac renders it; wherefore he does not inspire and excite his prophets to deliver themselves in a disorderly and tumultuous manner, so as to break in one upon another; but when one speaks, the other is silent, or when one has anything revealed to him, and he signifies it in a proper manner, the other stops and gives way to him, and when he has done another succeeds, and so the rest in order, till the whole... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 14:27

Speak in an unknown tongue - The Hebrew, as has already been conjectured. Let it be by two; or at the most by three, and that by course - Let only two or three in one assembly act in this way, that too much time may not be taken up with one exercise; and let this be done by course, the one after the other, that two may not be speaking at the same time: and let one interpret for all that shall thus speak. read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Corinthians 14:26-33

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Corinthians 14:26-33

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 14:27

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 14:28

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 14:29

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 14:30

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 14:31

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 14:32

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 14:33

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 14:27

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