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39 Therefore, my brothers and sisters, be eager to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues.
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39 Therefore, my brothers and sisters, earnestly desire to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues.
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39 Therefore, my brethren, desire earnestly to prophesy, and do not forbid to speak in tongues.
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39 Therefore, believers, desire earnestly to prophesy [to foretell the future, to speak a new message from God to the people], and do not forbid speaking in unknown tongues.
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39 So, my brothers, be eager to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues.
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39 Brothers and sisters, you should want to prophesy. And don’t stop people from speaking in languages they had not known before.
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