Chiasm
1 Corinthians 14:26–40
1 Corinthians 14:26–404 matched frames1 pivot
Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.
- A 26b Let all things be done unto edifying.
- B 27 If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret.
- C 28-30 But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God. Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge. If any thing be revealed to another that sitteth by, let the first hold his peace.
- C' 34-35 Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law. And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.
- B' 36-39 What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you only? 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. But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant. Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.
- B 27 If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret.
- A' 40 Let all things be done decently and in order.