1 Corinthians 12:1

For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night.

I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.

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

Therefore, brothers, desire earnestly to prophesy, and don’t forbid speaking with other languages.

They will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then “let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn’t listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

But the children of Israel walked on dry land in the middle of the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left.

Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.

Therefore also I was hindered these many times from coming to you,

If any man thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him recognize the things which I write to you, that they are the commandment of the Lord.

Let all that you do be done in love.

Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again with himself, that even as he is Christ’s, so we also are Christ’s.

that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;

But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.

and saying, “Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.”

At the commandment of Yahweh, the children of Israel traveled, and at the commandment of Yahweh they encamped. As long as the cloud remained on the tabernacle they remained encamped.

Are your days as the days of mortals, or your years as man’s years,

You will arise and have mercy on Zion; for it is time to have pity on her. Yes, the set time has come.

Now after these things had ended, Paul determined in the Spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, “After I have been there, I must also see Rome.”

Now this man had four virgin daughters who prophesied.

Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness?

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You are already filled. You have already become rich. You have come to reign without us. Yes, and I wish that you did reign, that we also might reign with you.

But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered dishonors her head. For it is one and the same thing as if she were shaved.

for a great and effective door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.

But their minds were hardened, for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains, because in Christ it passes away.

which in other generations was not made known to the children of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit,

Therefore he says, “When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts to people.”

Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.

Leah said, “Happy am I, for the daughters will call me happy.” She named him Asher.

The children of Israel went into the middle of the sea on the dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left.

Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances.

Now for a long time Israel was without the true God, without a teaching priest, and without law.

He turned the sea into dry land. They went through the river on foot. There, we rejoiced in him.

All nations you have made will come and worship before you, Lord. They shall glorify your name.

He spread a cloud for a covering, fire to give light in the night.

Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.

The way of the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but he loves him who follows after righteousness.

You, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people, who prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy against them,

Afterward the children of Israel shall return, and seek Yahweh their God, and David their king, and shall come with trembling to Yahweh and to his blessings in the last days.

For I tell you, you will not see me from now on, until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’ ”

“For it is like a man, going into another country, who called his own servants, and entrusted his goods to them.

When he had looked around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their hearts, he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored as healthy as the other.

Be careful therefore how you hear. For whoever has, to him will be given; and whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he thinks he has.”

He who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

Now in these days, prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.

Now in the assembly that was at Antioch there were some prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen the foster brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

On the next day, we who were Paul’s companions departed, and came to Caesarea. We entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him.

Now I don’t desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you, and was hindered so far, that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.

But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;

having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us: if prophecy, let’s prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;

or service, let’s give ourselves to service; or he who teaches, to his teaching;

But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one.

Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

For we don’t desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.

and to make all men see what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God, who created all things through Jesus Christ,

He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers;

which has come to you, even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth,

But we, brothers, being bereaved of you for a short season, in presence, not in heart, tried even harder to see your face with great desire,

because we wanted to come to you—indeed, I, Paul, once and again—but Satan hindered us.

But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

Don’t despise prophecies.

Don’t neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the elders.

being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.

But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Now who will harm you if you become imitators of that which is good?

After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could count, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.

There was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher (she was of a great age, having lived with a husband seven years from her virginity,

For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,

But don’t forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.