Rules for Orderly Public Worship
1 Corinthians 14:26-33
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What is our conclusion, brothers? Whenever you come together, let everyone be ready with a psalm or a teaching or a revelation, or ready to use his gift of tongues or give an interpretation; but let everything be for edification.
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If the gift of tongues is exercised, let it be by two or at most three, and each in turn; and let someone interpret.
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And if there is no one present who can interpret, let the people who speak in tongues keep silent when the congregation meets — they can speak to themselves and to God.
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Let two or three prophets speak, while the others weigh what is said.
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And if something is revealed to a prophet who is sitting down, let the first one be silent.
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For you can all prophesy one by one, with the result that all will learn something and all will be encouraged.
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Also, the prophets’ spirits are under the prophets’ control;
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for God is not a God of unruliness but of shalom.
As in all the congregations of God’s people,
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