Gary Gleans

                                                                   1 Corinthians 14:13-25 Therefore, one who speaks in a tongue should pray that he may interpret.  For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays but my mind is unfruitful.    What am I to do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will pray with my mind also;   I will sing praise with my spirit, but I will   sing with my mind also.    Otherwise, if you give thanks with your spirit, how can anyone in the position of an outsider say   “Amen” to   your thanksgiving when he does not know what you are saying?    For you may be giving thanks well enough, but the other person is not being built up.    I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you.   ...

                                                                                  1 Corinthians 14:6-12 Now, brothers, if I come to you speaking in tongues, how will I benefit you unless I bring you some   revelation or knowledge or prophecy or   teaching?    If even lifeless instruments, such as the flute or the harp, do not give distinct notes, how will anyone know what is played?    And   if the bugle gives an indistinct sound, who will get ready for battle?    So with yourselves, if with your tongue you utter speech that is not intelligible, how will anyone know what is said? For you will be   speaking into the air.    There are doubtless many different languages in the world, and no...

                                                                             1 Corinthians 14:1-5 Pursue love, and   earnestly desire the   spiritual gifts, especially that you may   prophesy.    For   one who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men but to God; for no one understands him, but he utters mysteries in the Spirit.    On the other hand, the one who prophesies speaks to people for their upbuilding and encouragement and consolation.    The one who speaks in a tongue builds up himself, but the one who prophesies builds up the church.  Now I want you all to speak in tongues, but   even more to prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongues, unless someone inter...

                                                                             1 Corinthians 13:8-13 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.    For   we know in part and we prophesy in part,   but   when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.    When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.    For   now we see in a mirror dimly, but   then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as   I have been fully known.   So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. ...

                                                                             1 Corinthians 13:4-7 Love is patient and   kind; love   does not envy or boast; it   is not arrogant   or rude. It   does not insist on its own way; it   is not irritable or resentful; it   does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but   rejoices with the truth.  Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things,   endures all things.   Paul gives us an accurate definition of what love is and a complete description of what love does and doesn’t do.  Perhaps the simplest way to summarize love is simply that it focuses on others.  This is a significant passage because Jesus summarizes the basic responsibilit...

                                                                                       1 Corinthians 13:1-3 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have   prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith,   so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.   If I give away all I have, and   if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.   The Spirit of God indwells every believer.  As part of His indwelling, He produces qualities in our lives known as the fruit of the Spirit.  He also equips believers with what we call spiritual gifts....

                                                                   1 Corinthians 12:21-31 The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty, which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it, that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.  If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.  Now y...