1 Corinthians 14:30

Good News Translation

But if someone sitting in the meeting receives a message from God, the one who is speaking should stop.

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
And if a message from God comes to someone who is sitting, the first speaker should be quiet.

Revised Standard Version
If a revelation is made to another sitting by, let the first be silent.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Yf eny revelacio be made to another that sitteth by let the fyrst holde his peace.

Hebrew Names Version
But if a revelation is made to another sitting by, let the first keep silence.

International Standard Version
If a revelation is made to another person who is seated, the first person should be silent.1 Thessalonians 5:19-20;">[xr]

New American Standard Bible
But if a revelation is made to another who is seated, then the first one is to keep silent.

New Century Version
If a message from God comes to another person who is sitting, the first speaker should stop.

Update Bible Version
But if a revelation is made to another sitting by, let the first keep silent.

Webster's Bible Translation
If [any thing] is revealed to another that sitteth by, let the first hold his peace.

English Standard Version
If a revelation is made to another sitting there, let the first be silent.

World English Bible
But if a revelation is made to another sitting by, let the first keep silence.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
let the first be silent.

Weymouth's New Testament
And if anything is revealed to some one else who is seated there, let the first be silent.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
But if ony thing be schewid to a sittere, the formere be stille.

English Revised Version
But if a revelation be made to another sitting by, let the first keep silence.

Berean Standard Bible
And if a revelation comes to someone who is seated, the first speaker should hold his peace.

Contemporary English Version
If someone sitting there receives a message from God, the speaker must stop and let the other person speak.

Amplified Bible
But if an inspired revelation is made to another who is seated, then the first one must be silent.

American Standard Version
But if a revelation be made to another sitting by, let the first keep silence.

Bible in Basic English
But if a revelation is given to another who is seated near, let the first be quiet.

Complete Jewish Bible
And if something is revealed to a prophet who is sitting down, let the first one be silent.

Darby Translation
But if there be a revelation to another sitting [there], let the first be silent.

Etheridge Translation
30 And if [fn] to another be revealed while sitting, let the first be silent.

Murdock Translation
And if to another sitting by, there should be a revelation, let the first stop speaking.

King James Version (1611)
If any thing be reueiled to another that sitteth by, let the first hold his peace.

New Living Translation
But if someone is prophesying and another person receives a revelation from the Lord, the one who is speaking must stop.

New Life Bible
If someone sitting in the meeting gets some special word from God, the one who is speaking should stop.

New Revised Standard
If a revelation is made to someone else sitting nearby, let the first person be silent.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And if any thing be reueiled to another that sitteth by, let the first holde his peace.

George Lamsa Translation
And if anything is revealed to another who is seated, let the first speaker hold his peace.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
If, however, unto another, a revelation be made, as he is sitting, let the first be silent;

Douay-Rheims Bible
But if any thing be revealed to another sitting, let the first hold his peace.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
If any reuelation be made to another that sitteth by, let ye first holde his peace.

Christian Standard Bible®
But if something has been revealed to another person sitting there, the first prophet should be silent.

King James Version
If any thing be revealed to another that sitteth by, let the first hold his peace.

Lexham English Bible
And if something is revealed to another who is seated, the first must be silent.

Literal Translation
But if a revelation is revealed to another sitting by, let the first be silent.

Young's Literal Translation
and if to another sitting [anything] may be revealed, let the first be silent;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But yf eny reuelacion be made vnto another that sytteth, then let the first holde his peace.

Mace New Testament (1729)
if the meaning be revealed to another that sits by, let the first be silent.

New English Translation
And if someone sitting down receives a revelation, the person who is speaking should conclude.

New King James Version
But if anything is revealed to another who sits by, let the first keep silent.

Simplified Cowboy Version
And don't talk over each other. If someone who is sitting down has a message from the Lord, the one standing up and speaking should let the other give God's word.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
But if a revelation is made to another who is seated, the first one must keep silent.

Legacy Standard Bible
But if a revelation is made to another who is seated, the first one must keep silent.

Contextual Overview

²⁶ 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. ²⁷ If someone is going to speak in strange tongues, two or three at the most should speak, one after the other, and someone else must explain what is being said. ²⁸ But if no one is there who can explain, then the one who speaks in strange tongues must be quiet and speak only to himself and to God. ²⁹ Two or three who are given God's message should speak, while the others are to judge what they say. ³⁰ But if someone sitting in the meeting receives a message from God, the one who is speaking should stop. ³¹ All of you may proclaim God's message, one by one, so that everyone will learn and be encouraged. ³² The gift of proclaiming God's message should be under the speaker's control, ³³ because God does not want us to be in disorder but in harmony and peace. As in all the churches of God's people,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

revealed: 1 Corinthians 14:6, 1 Corinthians 14:26

let: Job 32:11, Job 32:15-20, Job 33:31-33, 1 Thessalonians 5:19, 1 Thessalonians 5:20

Reciprocal: Acts 15:13 - after 1 Corinthians 2:10 - God 1 Corinthians 14:32 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If anything be revealed to another that sitteth by,.... To another prophet that sits, and hears, and tries, and judges what he hears; if he has a clearer revelation made to him of what the other is speaking of, and has a more distinct knowledge of it, and is capable of removing any difficulty that attends it, and of expressing it more plainly, and of proving it more largely, and of setting it in an easier light to the understandings of men:

let the first hold his peace; be that was speaking, upon such an intimation being made to him, let him stop, and give way to him that has the revelation, that the church may receive the benefit of it: hence it may be observed, that the custom of the primitive churches was to hear the word sitting, and the prophet or preacher stood, or sat, as he thought fit; :-, and that sometimes a revelation was made, and light conveyed to these prophets in a very sudden and extraordinary manner, when it was proper that it should be at once communicated for the good of the whole society: but this is to be understood only of those prophets or preachers, not of the common people; for it must not be thought that any that rose up, and pretended to a revelation, might be indulged to deliver it, and the speaker give way to him, which might be attended with much confusion, and many bad consequences; but only such who were known to have gifts, and who at certain times had peculiar revelations made unto them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

If anything be revealed to another - If, while one is speaking, an important truth is revealed to another, or is suggested to his mind by the Holy Spirit, which he feels it to be important to communicate.

Let the first hold his peace - That is, let him that was speaking conclude his discourse, and let there not be the confusion arising from two persons speaking. at the same time. Doddridge understands this as meaning, that he to whom the revelation was made should sit still, until the other was done speaking, and not rise and rudely interrupt him. But this is to do violence to the language. So Macknight understands it, that the one who was speaking was first to finish his discourse, and be silent. before the other began to speak. But this is evidently a forced construction. Locke understands it as meaning, that if, while one was speaking, the meaning of what he said was revealed to another, the first was to cease speaking until the other had interpreted or explained it. But the obvious meaning of the passage is, that the man that was speaking was to close his discourse and be silent. It does not follow, however, that he was to be rudely interrupted. He might close his discourse deliberately, or perhaps by an intimation from the person to whom the revelation was made. At any rate, two were not to speak at the same time, but the one who was speaking was to conclude before the other addressed the assembly.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 30. Be revealed to another that sitteth by — Probably those who were teachers sat on a particular seat, or place, from which they might most readily address the people; and this may be the meaning of sitting by. If such a person could say, I have just received a particular revelation from God, then let him have the liberty immediately to speak it; as it might possibly relate to the circumstances of that time and place.