προφητεία

G4394 names prophecy or a prophetic utterance. Its nineteen governed forms refer to Isaiah's prophecy, Spirit-given activity in the church, prophecies associated with Timothy's service, prophecy of Scripture, and the book of Revelation. The noun does not make every occurrence identical in authority, mode, audience, or function. The surrounding passage must determine whether the reference concerns canonical Scripture, a congregational gift, prior words about a worker, or Revelation's own written prophecy.

First Corinthians places prophecy among gifts and repeatedly subordinates gifted speech to love, intelligibility, edification, order, and evaluation. First Thessalonians joins refusal to despise prophecies with testing everything and holding fast to what is good. These texts resist both automatic dismissal and uncritical acceptance. They do not by themselves settle later continuationist and cessationist debates, nor do they authorize a speaker to bypass Scripture, communal discernment, correction, or accountability by claiming divine origin.

Second Peter says prophecy did not arise from human will as people spoke from God while carried by the Holy Spirit. Revelation blesses readers who keep its words and warns against alteration. These claims honor Scripture and do not make every contemporary impression canonical, inerrant, or immune from testing. Pastoral handling must reject prophecies used to control marriage, money, sex, medical treatment, medication, voting, relocation, reporting, or access to leaders. A claim should never override consent, evidence, qualified care, civil law, or protection from abuse.

Nineteen governed forms cover fulfilled scriptural prophecy, a congregational gift, prophecies concerning Timothy, prophecy of Scripture, and Revelation's written prophecy.