Bible Cross References
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John 14:12
I am telling you the truth: those who believe in me will do what I do---yes, they will do even greater things, because I am going to the Father.
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Luke 10:17
The seventy-two men came back in great joy. "Lord," they said, "even the demons obeyed us when we gave them a command in your name!"
Acts 5:16
And crowds of people came in from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing those who were sick or who had evil spirits in them; and they were all healed.
Acts 8:7
Evil spirits came out from many people with a loud cry, and many paralyzed and lame people were healed.
Acts 16:18
She did this for many days, until Paul became so upset that he turned around and said to the spirit, "In the name of Jesus Christ I order you to come out of her!" The spirit went out of her that very moment.
Acts 19:12-16
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Even handkerchiefs and aprons he had used were taken to the sick, and their diseases were driven away, and the evil spirits would go out of them.
13
Some Jews who traveled around and drove out evil spirits also tried to use the name of the Lord Jesus to do this. They said to the evil spirits, "I command you in the name of Jesus, whom Paul preaches."
14
Seven brothers, who were the sons of a Jewish High Priest named Sceva, were doing this.
15
But the evil spirit said to them, "I know Jesus, and I know about Paul; but you---who are you?"
16
The man who had the evil spirit in him attacked them with such violence that he overpowered them all. They ran away from his house, wounded and with their clothes torn off.
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Acts 2:4-11
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They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to talk in other languages, as the Spirit enabled them to speak.
5
There were Jews living in Jerusalem, religious people who had come from every country in the world.
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When they heard this noise, a large crowd gathered. They were all excited, because all of them heard the believers talking in their own languages.
7
In amazement and wonder they exclaimed, "These people who are talking like this are Galileans!
8
How is it, then, that all of us hear them speaking in our own native languages?
9
We are from Parthia, Media, and Elam; from Mesopotamia, Judea, and Cappadocia; from Pontus and Asia,
10
from Phrygia and Pamphylia, from Egypt and the regions of Libya near Cyrene. Some of us are from Rome,
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both Jews and Gentiles converted to Judaism, and some of us are from Crete and Arabia---yet all of us hear them speaking in our own languages about the great things that God has done!"
Acts 2:33-11
Acts 10:46
For they heard them speaking in strange tongues and praising God's greatness. Peter spoke up:
Acts 19:6
Paul placed his hands on them, and the Holy Spirit came upon them; they spoke in strange tongues and also proclaimed God's message.
1 Corinthians 12:10
The Spirit gives one person the power to work miracles; to another, the gift of speaking God's message; and to yet another, the ability to tell the difference between gifts that come from the Spirit and those that do not. To one person he gives the ability to speak in strange tongues, and to another he gives the ability to explain what is said.
1 Corinthians 12:28
In the church God has put all in place: in the first place apostles, in the second place prophets, and in the third place teachers; then those who perform miracles, followed by those who are given the power to heal or to help others or to direct them or to speak in strange tongues.
1 Corinthians 12:30
or to heal diseases or to speak in strange tongues or to explain what is said.
1 Corinthians 14:5-26
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I would like for all of you to speak in strange tongues; but I would rather that you had the gift of proclaiming God's message. For the person who proclaims God's message is of greater value than the one who speaks in strange tongues---unless there is someone present who can explain what is said, so that the whole church may be helped.
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So when I come to you, my friends, what use will I be to you if I speak in strange tongues? Not a bit, unless I bring you some revelation from God or some knowledge or some inspired message or some teaching.
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Take such lifeless musical instruments as the flute or the harp---how will anyone know the tune that is being played unless the notes are sounded distinctly?
8
And if the one who plays the bugle does not sound a clear call, who will prepare for battle?
9
In the same way, how will anyone understand what you are talking about if your message given in strange tongues is not clear? Your words will vanish in the air!
10
There are many different languages in the world, yet none of them is without meaning.
11
But if I do not know the language being spoken, those who use it will be foreigners to me and I will be a foreigner to them.
12
Since you are eager to have the gifts of the Spirit, you must try above everything else to make greater use of those which help to build up the church.
13
The person who speaks in strange tongues, then, must pray for the gift to explain what is said.
14
For if I pray in this way, my spirit prays indeed, but my mind has no part in it.
15
What should I do, then? I will pray with my spirit, but I will pray also with my mind; I will sing with my spirit, but I will sing also with my mind.
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When you give thanks to God in spirit only, how can ordinary people taking part in the meeting say "Amen" to your prayer of thanksgiving? They have no way of knowing what you are saying.
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Even if your prayer of thanks to God is quite good, other people are not helped at all.
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I thank God that I speak in strange tongues much more than any of you.
19
But in church worship I would rather speak five words that can be understood, in order to teach others, than speak thousands of words in strange tongues.
20
Do not be like children in your thinking, my friends; be children so far as evil is concerned, but be grown up in your thinking.
21
In the Scriptures it is written, "By means of people speaking strange languages I will speak to my people, says the Lord. I will speak through lips of foreigners, but even then my people will not listen to me."
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So then, the gift of speaking in strange tongues is proof for unbelievers, not for believers, while the gift of proclaiming God's message is proof for believers, not for unbelievers.
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If, then, the whole church meets together and everyone starts speaking in strange tongues---and if some ordinary people or unbelievers come in, won't they say that you are all crazy?
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But if everyone is proclaiming God's message when some unbelievers or ordinary people come in, they will be convinced of their sin by what they hear. They will be judged by all they hear,
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their secret thoughts will be brought into the open, and they will bow down and worship God, confessing, "Truly God is here among you!"
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This is what I mean, my friends. When you meet for worship, one person has a hymn, another a teaching, another a revelation from God, another a message in strange tongues, and still another the explanation of what is said. Everything must be of help to the church.