Now I wish that you all (A)spoke in tongues, but (B)even more that you would prophesy; and greater is one who prophesies than one who (C)speaks in tongues, unless he interprets, so that the church may receive (D)edifying.

But now, brethren, if I come to you speaking in tongues, what will I profit you unless I speak to you either by way of (E)revelation or of (F)knowledge or of (G)prophecy or of (H)teaching? Yet even lifeless things, either flute or harp, in producing a sound, if they do not produce a distinction in the tones, how will it be known what is played on the flute or on the harp?

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