So if the whole church comes together and all speak in tongues, and unbelievers or uninformed people enter, will they not say that you have lost your minds?

I am speaking to thoughtful people. Consider what I say.

Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking. Instead, be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.

My conversation and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

Do you not know that all the runners in a stadium compete, but only one receives the prize? So run to win.

It is the same with you. Since you are eager for manifestations of the Spirit, seek to abound in order to strengthen the church.

and by which you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message I preached to you – unless you believed in vain.

Sober up as you should, and stop sinning! For some have no knowledge of God – I say this to your shame!

For this reason, I have sent Timothy to you, who is my dear and faithful son in the Lord. He will remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach them everywhere in every church.

But this knowledge is not shared by all. And some, by being accustomed to idols in former times, eat this food as an idol sacrifice, and their conscience, because it is weak, is defiled.