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1 Corinthians 14:1

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Follow after love and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.

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Verse 1. But rather that you may prophesy. That is, declare or expound the mysteries of faith. Challoner.—To prophesy, in its proper signification, is to foretell things to come: it sometimes is to expound the obscure places in other prophets; and sometimes it is to preach the word of God. Here it is chiefly taken in this last sense. Witham.

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