Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

1 Corinthians 14:22-31 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

22. Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to believers, but to unbelievers; but prophecies not to unbelievers, but to believers.

23. If therefore the whole church come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in unlearned persons or infidels, will they not say that you are mad?

24. But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not, or an unlearned person, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all.

25. The secrets of his heart are made manifest; and so, falling down on his face, he will adore God, affirming that God is among you indeed.

26. How is it then, brethren? When you come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a revelation, hath a tongue, hath an interpretation: let all things be done to edification.

27. If any speak with a tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and in course, and let one interpret.

28. But if there be no interpreter, let him hold his peace in the church, and speak to himself and to God.

29. And let the prophets speak, two or three; and let the rest judge.

30. But if any thing be revealed to another sitting, let the first hold his peace.

31. For you may all prophesy one by one; that all may learn, and all may be exhorted: