Topic
Tongues (the Gift)
7 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1896 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- 1 Corinthians 12:10Nave The miraculous gift granted to some early Christians
To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:
- 1 Corinthians 12:28Nave The miraculous gift granted to some early Christians
And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.
- 1 Corinthians 12:30Nave The miraculous gift granted to some early Christians
Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?
- 1 Corinthians 13:8Nave The miraculous gift granted to some early Christians
Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
- 1 Corinthians 14:2–19Nave The miraculous gift granted to some early Christians
For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries. But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort. He that…
- 1 Corinthians 14:21–28Nave The miraculous gift granted to some early Christians
In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord. Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but…
- 1 Corinthians 14:39Nave The miraculous gift granted to some early Christians
Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.
In the topical indexes
Texts: Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.