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Seek order and decency.
1 Corinthians 14:40 Let all things be done decently and in order. The final instruction from the Bible regarding the confusion surrounding speaking in tongues is that everything is to be done decently…
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Seek spiritual understanding
1 Corinthians 14:37 If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord. 38 But…
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Seek to give that which you have received
1 Corinthians 14:36 What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you only? The Corinthians were not the only ones to receive the Word of God. Nor were…
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Seek to promote men as spiritual leaders
1 Corinthians 14:34-35 Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.…
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Seek to dispel confusion
1 Corinthians 14:27 If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret. 28 But if…
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Focus on Jesus; the Head of the Church
Seek a good testimony of God 1 Corinthians 14:23 If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned,…
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Seek the understanding of men
1 Corinthians 14:20 Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men. 21 In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and…
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Seek that which teaches others
1 Corinthians 14:18 I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all: 19 Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice…
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Seek the Edification of others
1 Corinthians 14:15 What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the…
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Seek fruitful understanding
1 Corinthians 14:12 Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church. 13 Wherefore let him that speaketh in an…
