📖WEB · 1 Corinthians 14:32
What does 1 Corinthians 14:32 mean?
"The spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets,"
— 1 Corinthians 14:32 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Let the prophets speak, two or three, and let the others discern.
But if a revelation is made to another sitting by, let the first keep silent.
For you all can prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be exhorted.
The spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets,
for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints.
Let the wives be quiet in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to be talking except in submission, as the law also says,
if they desire to learn anything. “Let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is shameful for a wife to be talking in the assembly.”
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