#ScriptureReflection: 1 Corinthians 14:20-25 * (1.27.22)

 Functions of These Gifts.
²⁰  Brothers, stop being childish in your thinking.

In respect to evil be like infants, but in your thinking be mature. ²¹  It is written in the law:

“By people speaking strange tongues
    and by the lips of foreigners
I will speak to this people,
    and even so they will not listen to me,

says the Lord.” ²²  Thus, tongues are a sign not for those who believe but for unbelievers, whereas prophecy is not for unbelievers but for those who believe.

²³  So if the whole church meets in one place and everyone speaks in tongues, and then uninstructed people or unbelievers should come in, will they not say that you are out of your minds? ²⁴  But if everyone is prophesying, and an unbeliever or uninstructed person should come in, he will be convinced by everyone and judged by everyone, ²⁵  and the secrets of his heart will be disclosed, and so he will fall down and worship God, declaring, “God is really in your midst.”

Source: NABRE (New American Bible Revised Edition)