Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in 1 Corinthians 14:1, and Living Bread opens it right there.
Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- 1 Timothy 4:14
Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.
- 1 Corinthians 14:39
Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.
- 1 Corinthians 16:14
Let all your things be done with charity.
- 1 Corinthians 12:1
Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:20
Despise not prophesyings.
- Hebrews 12:14
Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
- 1 Corinthians 14:3
But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort.
- 1 Corinthians 13:13
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
- Proverbs 15:9
The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the LORD: but he loveth him that followeth after righteousness.
- 1 Peter 3:11
Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.
- 1 Timothy 6:11
But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
- 1 Corinthians 14:37
If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.
More to meet God in 1 Corinthians
How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.