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New King James Version

1 Corinthians 14:30

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- The Topic Concordance - Prophecy and Prophets;   Tongues;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Prophets;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Gifts of the spirit;   Prophecy, prophet;   Revelation;   Women;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Leadership;   Worship;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Worship of God;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Church;   Offices in the New Testament;   Prophecy, Prophets;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Corinthians, First Epistle to the;   Ethics;   Prophet;   Spiritual Gifts;   Tongues, Gift of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Edification;   Holy Spirit;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Tongues, Gift of;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Synagogue;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Apostle;   Church;   Spiritual Gifts;  

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.
Good News Translation
But if someone sitting in the meeting receives a message from God, the one who is speaking should stop.
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.
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 How is it then, brethren? Whenever you come together, each of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification. 27 If anyone speaks in a tongue, let there be two or at the most three, each in turn, and let one interpret. 28 But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent in church, and let him speak to himself and to God. 29 Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others judge. 30 But if anything is revealed to another who sits by, let the first keep silent. 31 For you can all prophesy one by one, that all may learn and all may be encouraged. 32 And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets. 33 For God is not the author of confusion but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints.

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.


 
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