May 11 – Eyes That See, Ears That Listen

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Welcome to Bible Chat, where we
have devotional conversations

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rooted in scripture and relevant
for.

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Today, May 11th, eyes that see,
ears that listen, think about

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the last thing that wrecked your
mood.

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Maybe it was a video that left
you feeling gross inside, a

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conversation full of gossip that
made you anxious, or a comment

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online that you just couldn’t
shake.

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We don’t always realize it in
the moment, but what we let in

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through our eyes and ears has a
way of settling deep into our

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hearts, and it shapes more than
we think.

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Proverbs chapter 15, verses 30
to 31 says the light of the eyes

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rejoices the heart, and good
news refreshes the bones.

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The ear that listens to life
giving reproof will dwell among

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the wise.
There’s something so honest

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about that.
What you see and what you choose

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to hear actually has a physical
effect.

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It either refreshes you or it
drains you.

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Good news, real encouragement,
wisdom from someone who

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genuinely cares.
These things strengthen you from

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the inside out.
But the wrong input?

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It weighs on you in ways you
might not even connect back to

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the source.
And then there’s Psalm 52, verse

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8, where the writer says, But I
am like a green olive tree in

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the House of God.
I trust in the steadfast love of

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God forever and ever.
Picture that image for a second.

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An olive tree rooted in green,
thriving not because the world

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around it is perfect, but
because it’s planted in the

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right place.
That’s what trust in God does.

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It keeps you grounded and
growing even when you’re

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surrounded by people who lie,
manipulate, or make noise that

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pulls you away from what’s true.
The psalmist wasn’t writing from

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a comfortable place.
He was surrounded by deceit and

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arrogance, but his anchor wasn’t
his circumstances, it was God’s

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love.
That’s the kind of stability

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that’s available to you too, not
because your life will be free

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of hard stuff, but because
you’re rooted in something that

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doesn’t move.
Now, First Corinthians chapter

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14, verse 26 adds another layer
to this.

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It says simply let all things be
done for building up.

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That short line reframes
everything.

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Not just what you take in, but
what you put out.

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Every conversation, every post,
every comment, every choice

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about what to watch or listen
to, All of it can either build

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something or tear something
down.

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And God calls us to be the kind
of people who build.

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Think about what that actually
looks like in a regular day.

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It might mean choosing not to
pile on in a group chat where

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someone’s being mocked.
It might mean walking away from

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content that leaves you feeling
worse about yourself or others.

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It might mean being the friend
who actually speaks truth

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instead of just saying what’s
easy.

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None of that is dramatic or
flashy, but it’s real and it

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matters.
Here’s the thing about guarding

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what you let in.
It’s not about being sheltered

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or avoiding real life.
It’s about being intentional.

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You live in a world that is
constantly competing for your

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attention, your emotions, your
beliefs.

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Social media algorithms are
literally designed to keep you

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scrolling, often by feeding you
things that stir up comparison,

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fear, or outrage.
You have to decide consciously

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what gets access to your heart.
And when you choose truth over

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noise, encouragement over
gossip, and wisdom over cheap

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entertainment, something shifts.
You start to think more clearly,

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you feel more settled, and you
become someone whose presence

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actually adds something to the
people around you that’s not

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small.
That’s exactly what it looks

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like to be rooted like that
green olive tree thriving in the

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House of God.
Let’s pray.

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Heavenly Father, thank you for
Your word that shows me how much

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what I see and hear actually
matters.

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Help me to be intentional, to
guard my heart against the noise

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and negativity that pulls me
away from You, and to fill my

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mind with truth, encouragement,
and wisdom where I’ve LED in

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things that have weighed me
down.

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Bring healing and help me to be
someone whose words and actions

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build others up, reflecting your
goodness in everything I do.

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I want to be rooted in your
love, steady and green no matter

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what’s going on around me.
In Jesus name, Amen.

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Now I invite you to spend time
with God in today’s three-year

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Bible reading plan.
Proverbs chapter 15 verses 30 to

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31 World English Bible The light
of the eyes rejoices the heart,

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good news gives health to the
bones.

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The ear that listens to reproof
lives and will be at home among

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the wise.
Psalm Chapter 52.

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World English Bible Why do you
boast of mischief?

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Mighty man?
God’s loving kindness endures

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continually.
Your tongue plots destruction

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like a sharp razor.
Working deceitfully.

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You love evil more than good,
lying rather than speaking the

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truth.
You love all devouring words,

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you deceitful tongue.
God will likewise destroy you

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forever.
He will take you up and pluck

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you out of your tent and root
you out of the land of the

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living.
The righteous also will see it

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and fear and laugh at him,
saying, Behold, this is the man

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who didn’t make God his
strength, but trusted in the

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abundance of his riches and
strengthened himself in his

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wickedness.
But As for me, I am like a green

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olive tree in God’s house.
I trust in God’s loving kindness

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forever and ever.
I will give you thanks forever

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because you have done it.
I will hope in your name, for it

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is good in the presence of your
Saints.

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First Corinthians Chapter 14
World English Bible follow after

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love and earnestly desire
spiritual gifts, but especially

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that you may prophecy.
For he who speaks in another

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language speaks not to men, but
to God.

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For no one understands but in
the Spirit.

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He speaks mysteries, but he who
prophecies speaks to men for

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their edification, exhortation,
and consolation.

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He who speaks in another
language edifies himself, but he

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who prophecies edifies the
assembly.

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Now I desire to have you all
speak with other languages, but

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rather that you would prophecy.
For He is greater who prophecies

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than he who speaks with other
languages, unless he interprets

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that the assembly may be built
up.

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But now, brothers, if I come to
you speaking with other

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languages, what would I profit
you unless I speak to you either

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by way of revelation, or of
knowledge, or of prophesying, or

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of teaching, even things without
life giving a voice, whether

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pipe or harp, if they didn’t
give a distinction in the

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sounds, how would it be known
what is piped or harped?

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For if the trumpet gave an
uncertain sound, who would

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prepare himself for war?
So also you, unless you uttered

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by the tongue words easy to
understand, how would it be

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known what is spoken?
For you would be speaking into

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the air.
There are, it may be, so many

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kinds of sounds in the world,
and none of them is without

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meaning.
If then I don’t know the meaning

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of the sound, I would be to him
who speaks a foreigner, and he

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who speaks would be a foreigner
to me.

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So also you, since you are
zealous for spiritual gifts,

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seek that you may abound to the
building up of the assembly.

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Therefore, let him who speaks in
another language pray that he

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may interpret.
For if I pray in another

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language, my spirit prays, but
my understanding is unfruitful.

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What is it then?
I will pray with the Spirit, and

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I will pray with the
understanding also.

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I will sing with the Spirit, and
I will sing with the

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understanding also.
Otherwise, if you bless with the

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Spirit, how will he who fills
the place of the unlearned say

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the Amen at your giving of
thanks, seeing he doesn’t know

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what you say?
For you most certainly give

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thanks well, but the other
person is not built up.

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I thank my God I speak with
other languages more than you

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all.
However, in the assembly I would

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rather speak 5 words with my
understanding that I might

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instruct others also than 10,000
words in another language.

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Brothers, don’t be children in
thoughts, yet in malice be

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babies, but in thoughts be
mature in the law.

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It is written by men of strange
languages and by the lips of

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strangers.
I will speak to this people,

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they won’t even hear me that
way, says the Lord.

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Therefore other languages are
for a sign, not to those who

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believe, but to the unbelieving.
But prophesying is for a sign

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not to the unbelieving, but to
those who believe.

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If, therefore, the whole
assembly is assembled together

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and all speak with other
languages and unlearned or

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unbelieving people come in,
won’t they say that you are

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crazy?
But if all prophecy and someone

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unbelieving or unlearned comes
in, he is reproved by all, and

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he is judged by all, and thus
the secrets of his heart are

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revealed, so he will fall down
on his face and worship God,

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declaring that God is among you
indeed.

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What is it then, brothers?
When you come together, each one

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of you has a Psalm, has a
teaching, has a revelation, has

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another language, or has an
interpretation.

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Let all things be done to build
each other up.

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If any man speaks in another
language, let it be two, or at

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the most 3 and in turn and let
one interpret.

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But if there is no interpreter,
let him keep silent in the

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assembly, and let him speak to
himself and to God.

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Let the prophet speak two or
three, and let the others

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discern.
But if a revelation is made to

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another sitting by, let the
first keep silent, for you all

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can prophecy one by one, that
all may learn and all may be

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exhorted.
The spirits of the prophets are

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subject to the prophets, for God
is not a God of confusion, but

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of peace, as in all the
assemblies of the Saints.

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Let the wives be quiet in the
assemblies, for it has not been

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permitted for them to be talking
except in submission, as the Law

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also says.
If they desire to learn

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anything, let them ask their own
husbands at home, for it is

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shameful for a wife to be
talking in the assembly.

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What was it from you that the
word of God went out, or did it

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come to you alone?
If any man thinks himself to be

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a prophet or spiritual, let him
recognize the things which I

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write to you, that they are the
commandment of the Lord.

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But if anyone is ignorant, let
him be ignorant.

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Therefore, brothers, desire
earnestly to prophecy, and don’t

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forbid speaking with other
languages.

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Let all things be done decently
and in order.

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Thanks for joining us on Bible
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