Gifts Wey Dey Build Di Family Up
Tongues wey nobody interpret dey build only di person wey dey talk, so prophecy better pass: if outsider waka enter, im heart suppose open for everybody to see and e go fall down dey worship. Everything for di gathering, dem dey measure am by whether e dey build up, and make dem do am with order, because our Papa no be God of scatter-scatter.
14 1Run after love, and hungry well-well for di spiritual gifts, but pass all, make you fit prophesy. 2Anybody wey dey speak for tongue no dey speak to people but to our Papa—nobody dey understand am—na mystery him dey speak inside di Spirit. 3But di one wey dey prophesy dey speak to people to build dem up, to encourage dem, and to comfort dem. 4Di one wey dey speak for tongue dey build himself up; di one wey dey prophesy dey build di church up. 5I want make una all speak for tongues, but I prefer make una prophesy. Di one wey dey prophesy pass di one wey dey speak for tongues, unless e interpret am, so dat di church go build up.
6Now, my brothers and sisters, if I come una dey speak for tongues, wetin good I go do una unless I speak revelation, knowledge, prophecy, or teaching? 7Even things wey no get life wey dey make sound—flute or harp—if di notes no clear, how person go take know wetin dem dey play? 8And if di trumpet blow sound wey no clear, who go ready himself for war? 9Na so e be for una: unless una tongue speak word wey clear, how person go take know wetin una talk? Na for air una go just dey speak. 10No doubt, plenty kind language dey for di world; and none of dem no get meaning. 11So if I no know wetin di sound mean, I go be stranger to di one wey dey speak, and di one wey dey speak go be stranger to me. 12Na so e be for una: since una dey hungry for spiritual gifts, seek make una plenty for di things wey dey strengthen di church. 13So make di one wey dey speak for tongue pray make e fit interpret am. 14If I pray for tongue, my spirit dey pray but my mind no dey produce anytin.
15So wetin I go do? I go pray with my spirit, and I go pray with my mind too; I go sing praise with my spirit, and I go sing praise with my mind too. 16If no be so, if you dey bless with di spirit, how di person wey no sabi anytin, wey siddon dere, go take talk “Amen” to your thanksgiving, since e no know wetin you dey talk? 17You fit dey give thanks well-well, but di other person no dey build up. 18I dey thank our Papa say I dey speak for tongues pass una all. 19But for church I prefer make I speak five words with my mind, so I fit teach others too, pass 10,000 words for tongue.
20My brothers and sisters, no dey think like pikin. Make una be small pikin for evil matter, but grown-up for una thinking.
21Di Law talk say: “Through strange tongues and lips of foreign people I go speak to dis people, and even so dem no go still listen to me,” na so our Papa talk.
22So tongues na sign, no be for believers but for people wey no believe; prophecy na sign, no be for people wey no believe but for believers. 23So if di whole church gather and dem all dey speak for tongues, and people wey no sabi anytin or people wey no believe enter, dem no go talk say una don craze? 24But if dem all dey prophesy, and person wey no believe or person wey no sabi anytin enter, everybody go convict am, everybody go examine am, 25and di secret wey dey im heart go show clear; so e go fall down for im face and worship our Papa, dey announce say true-true our Papa dey among una.
Worship Wey Dey For Correct Order
26So wetin, my brothers and sisters? When una gather, everybody get hymn, teaching, revelation, tongue, or interpretation. Make una do all of dem to build di church up. 27If anybody speak for tongue, make e be two or at most three, everybody for im turn, and make one person interpret am. 28If no interpreter dey, make e keep quiet for church, dey speak only to himself and to our Papa. 29Make two or three prophet speak, and make di others weigh well-well wetin dem talk. 30And if revelation come anoda person wey siddon dere, make di first person wey dey speak stop. 31Because una all fit prophesy one by one, so dat everybody go learn and everybody go take heart, 32and di spirit of di prophets dey submit to di prophets. 33Because our Papa no be God of disorder but God of peace, as e dey for all di churches of di holy people. 34Make di women stay quiet for di churches; dem no get permission to speak, but make dem submit, as di Law too talk. a a v34 Some manuscripts put verses 34-35 afta verse 40. 35If dem wan learn anytin, make dem ask dem own husband for house; e be shameful thing for woman to speak for church. 36Abi na from una di word of our Papa comot? Abi na una only e reach? 37Anybody wey think say e be prophet or spiritual person must recognize say di things wey I dey write to una na Oga command. 38But if anybody ignore dis one, dem go ignore am too.
39So den, my brothers and sisters, hungry well-well to prophesy, and no stop anybody from speaking for tongues. 40But make una do everytin for way wey correct and wey get order.
