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Romans 12:6

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We all have different gifts, each of which came because of the grace God gave us. The person who has the gift of prophecy should use that gift in agreement with the faith.

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So I tell you this: I am sending to you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify. Some of them you will beat in your synagogues and chase from town to town.

“Then the servant who had been given two bags of gold came to the master and said, ‘Master, you gave me two bags of gold to care for, so I used your two bags to earn two more.’

This is why in his wisdom God said, ‘I will send prophets and apostles to them. They will kill some, and they will treat others cruelly.’

In the church at Antioch there were these prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon (also called Niger), Lucius (from the city of Cyrene), Manaen (who had grown up with Herod, the ruler), and Saul.

Judas and Silas, who were also prophets, said many things to encourage the believers and make them stronger.

‘God says: In the last days I will pour out my Spirit on all kinds of people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams.

He had four unmarried daughters who had the gift of prophesying.

I want very much to see you, to give you some spiritual gift to make you strong.

Because God has given me a special gift, I have something to say to everyone among you. Do not think you are better than you are. You must decide what you really are by the amount of faith God has given you.

If each part of the body were the same part, there would be no body. But truly God put all the parts, each one of them, in the body as he wanted them.

I may have the gift of prophecy. I may understand all the secret things of God and have all knowledge, and I may have faith so great I can move mountains. But even with all these things, if I do not have love, then I am nothing.

You should seek after love, and you should truly want to have the spiritual gifts, especially the gift of prophecy.

But suppose everyone is prophesying and some people come in who do not believe or do not understand. If everyone is prophesying, their sin will be shown to them, and they will be judged by all that they hear.

Only two or three prophets should speak, and the others should judge what they say.

Is Apollos important? No! Is Paul important? No! We are only servants of God who helped you believe. Each one of us did the work God gave us to do.

I wish that everyone were like me, but each person has his own gift from God. One has one gift, another has another gift.

If you want to give, your gift will be accepted. It will be judged by what you have, not by what you do not have.

People who lived in other times were not told that secret. But now, through the Spirit, God has shown that secret to his holy apostles and prophets.

And Christ gave gifts to people—he made some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to go and tell the Good News, and some to have the work of caring for and teaching God’s people.

All of us who are spiritually mature should think this way, too. And if there are things you do not agree with, God will make them clear to you.

Do not treat prophecy as if it were unimportant.

Most of all, you must understand this: No prophecy in the Scriptures ever comes from the prophet’s own interpretation.




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