When you come together,

Each of us has a hymn;

That our tongues gather,

Giving spiritual vim.

It gives revelation,

Letting all things done build;

Through interpretation,

Our spirit is filled.

If anyone would speak,

Utters a foreign tongue;

Ensure that you can seek,

To construe what is flung.

Make them to keep silent,

If no one understands;

Interpreting absent,

That inclusion demands.

For revelations said,

To others sitting there;

Speaking should not instead,

Be silent not to share.

For you can prophesy,

So that each of us learn;

With encouraging why,

And to what we will earn.

God is not confusion,

Rather as God of peace;

Who has a solution,

That contradictions cease.

Your women keep silence,

Not permitted to speak;

Obey, no defiance,

Rather humbled and meek.

If desire to learn,

Then they must ask their spouse;

For the knowledge to earn,

When they get to the house.

A woman to proclaim,

Speaking out in the church;

Is putting her to shame,

Perceiving what they search.

It should be as prescribed,

Through service of the Word;

As in Scripture subscribed,

Comprehended as heard.



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