For they were hearing them speaking in tongues and extolling God. Then Peter declared,
And when Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they began speaking in tongues and prophesying.
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.
And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues;
both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabians—we hear them telling in our own tongues the mighty works of God.”
Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature. In the Law it is written, “By people of strange tongues and by the lips of foreigners will I speak to this people, and even then they will not listen to me, says the Lord.” Thus tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers, while prophecy is a sign not for unbelievers but for believers. If, therefore, the whole church comes together and all speak in tongues, and outsiders or unbelievers enter, will they not say that you are out of your minds? But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or outsider enters, he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all,
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