1Corinthians:1:18-2
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For the message of the cross is of course ,
foolishness to those who are perishing ,
but to us who are being saved it is a power of God .
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For it is written ,
I will destroy the wisdom of the wise ,
and I will frustrate the understanding of those of understanding .
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Where is a wise man ?
Where is a scholar ?
Where is a researcher of this age ?
Did not God make foolish the wisdom of this world ?
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For since in the wisdom of God the world did not know God through its wisdom ,
it pleased God through the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe .
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And because Jews demand a sign and Greeks search for wisdom
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but we proclaim Christ crucified ,
truly to Jews a stumbling-block and to Gentiles foolishness .
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But to them ,
to the called ,
both Jews and Greeks ,
Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God .
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Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men ,
and the weak thing of God is stronger than men .
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For notice your calling ,
brothers ,
that not many are wise according to flesh ,
not many powerful ,
not many eminent .
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But God chose the foolish things of the world ,
so that he might humiliate the wise ,
and God chose the weak things of the world ,
so that he might humiliate the powerful .
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And God chose the common things of the world ,
and the disdained things ,
and the things that are not ,
so that he might make useless the things that are ,
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so that no flesh may boast before God .
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But ye are his ,
in Christ Jesus ,
who became for us wisdom from God ,
and righteousness and sanctification and redemption ,
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so that ,
just as it is written ,
He who boasts ,
let him boast in Lord .
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But I want you not to be ignorant ,
brothers ,
that all our fathers were under the cloud ,
and all passed through the sea ,
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and all in Moses were immersed in the cloud and in the sea .
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And they all ate the same spiritual food ,
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and they all drank the same spiritual drink ,
for they drank from a spiritual rock that followed them .
And the rock was the Christ .
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However with most of them God was not well pleased ,
for they were strewn in the wilderness .
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But these things became our examples ,
for us not to be men who lust for evil things as those also lusted .
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Neither become ye idolaters as some of them ,
as it is written ,
The people sat down to eat and drink ,
and rose up to revel .
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Nor should we fornicate as some of them fornicated ,
and three thousand fell in one day .
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Nor should we challenge the Christ as some of them also challenged ,
and were destroyed by the serpents .
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And ye should not grumble as some of them grumbled ,
and were destroyed by the destroyer .
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Now all these things happened to those men for examples ,
and they were written for our admonition ,
to whom the ends of the ages came .
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Therefore let him who seems to stand take heed lest he fall .
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No temptation has taken you except is common to man .
But God is faithful who will not allow you to be tempted above what ye are able ,
but with the temptation will also make the way to escape ,
to enable you to endure .
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Therefore ,
my beloved ,
flee from idolatry .
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I speak as to wise men ,
judge ye what I say .
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The cup of the blessing that we bless ,
is it not a participation of the blood of the Christ ?
The bread that we break ,
is it not a participation of the body of the Christ ?
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Because we ,
the many ,
are one bread ,
one body ,
for we are all partakers of the one bread .
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Look at Israel according to flesh .
Those who eat the sacrifices ,
are they not partakers of the altar ?
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What therefore do I say ,
that an idol is anything ,
or that a sacrifice to an idol is anything ?
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Rather ,
that which the Gentiles sacrifice ,
they sacrifice to demons and not to God ,
and I do not want you to become partakers of demons .
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Ye cannot drink the cup of Lord ,
and the cup of demons .
Ye cannot be partakers of a table of Lord ,
and of a table of demons .
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Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy ?
Are we stronger than he ?
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All things are permitted for me ,
but not all things are expedient .
All things are permitted for me ,
but not all things are constructive .
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Let not one man seek that of himself ,
but each man that of the other .
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Eat everything being sold in a meat market ,
inquiring of nothing because of the conscience ,
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for the earth is the Lord '
s ,
and the fullness of it .
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If any of those unbelievers invites you ,
and ye want to go ,
eat everything being set before you ,
inquiring of nothing because of the conscience .
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But if any man say to you ,
This is a sacrifice to an idol ,
do not eat for the sake of that man who informed ,
and the conscience ,
for the earth is the Lord '
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and the fullness of it .
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And I say conscience ,
not the one of himself ,
but the one of the other man .
For why is my liberty judged by another conscience ?
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If I partake with thankfulness ,
why am I maligned about which I express thanks ?
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Therefore whether ye eat ,
or drink ,
or anything ye do ,
do all to the glory of God .
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Become ye inoffensive both to Jews and to Greeks ,
and to the church of God ,
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just as I also strive to please in all things for all men ,
not seeking my own advantage ,
but that of the many ,
so that they may be saved .
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Become ye followers of me ,
even as I also am of Christ .
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Now I praise you ,
brothers ,
that ye remember me in all things and keep the traditions ,
just as I delivered them to you .
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But I want you to know that the head of every man is the Christ ,
and the head of a woman is the man ,
and the head of Christ is God .
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Every man praying or prophesying having something upon his head dishonors his head .
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But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered dishonors her head ,
for it is one and the same thing as the woman who has been shaven .
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For if a woman is not covered ,
let her also shear herself .
But if it is an ugly thing for a woman to shear herself or be shaven ,
she should be covered .
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For a man indeed ought not to cover his head ,
being an image and glory of God ,
but woman is a glory of man .
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For man is not from woman ,
but woman from man .
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For also man was not created for the woman ,
but woman for the man .
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Because of this the woman ought to have authority over her head ,
because of the heavenly agents .
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Nevertheless ,
neither is man independent of woman ,
nor woman independent of man ,
in Lord .
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For just as the woman is from the man ,
so also the man is through the woman .
But all things are from God .
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Judge ye among yourselves ,
is it proper for a woman to pray to God uncovered ?
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Or does not nature itself teach you that if a man actually wears long hair it is a disgrace to him ?
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But if a woman wears long hair ,
it is a glory to her ,
because her hair has been given for a cloak .
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But if any man appears to be a lover of strife ,
we have no such custom ,
nor the congregations of God .
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Now in this that is commanded ,
I do not praise you ,
because ye do not assemble for the better but for the worse .
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For indeed first ,
when ye come together in a congregation ,
I hear divisions are present among you ,
and I partly believe it .
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For there must also be factions among you ,
so that the genuine may become apparent among you .
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When therefore ye come together in the same place ,
it is not to eat the Lord '
s supper .
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For each man proceeds to eat his own meal ,
and one is hungry and another is drunken .
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For have ye no houses to eat and to drink in ?
Or do ye disparage the church of God ,
and humiliate those not having ?
What shall I say to you ?
Shall I praise you in this ?
I do not praise you .
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For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you ,
that the Lord Jesus in the night in which he was betrayed took bread ,
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and having expressed thanks ,
he broke in pieces ,
and said ,
Take ye ,
eat ,
this is my body broken for you .
This do ye for my memorial .
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Likewise also the cup after the supper ,
saying ,
This cup is the new covenant in my blood .
This do ,
as often as ye drink it ,
for my memorial .
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For as often as ye eat this bread and drink this cup ,
ye proclaim the Lord '
s death until he comes .
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Therefore whoever may eat this bread or drink the cup of the Lord unworthily of the Lord ,
will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord .
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But let a man examine himself ,
and let him so eat of the bread ,
and drink of the cup .
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For he who eats and drinks unworthily ,
eats and drinks condemnation to himself ,
not discerning the body of the Lord .
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Because of this many are weak and sickly among you ,
and a considerable sleep .
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But if we were discerning ourselves we would not be judged .
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But when we are judged by Lord ,
we are chastened so that we may not be condemned with the world .
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Therefore ,
my brothers ,
when ye come together to eat ,
await each other .
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And if any man is hungry ,
let him eat at home so that ye may not come together for condemnation .
And the rest I will set in order as soon as I come .
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Now concerning the spiritual things ,
brothers ,
I do not want you to be ignorant .
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Ye know that ,
while Gentiles ,
ye were being carried away to the voiceless idols ,
as ye were led .
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Therefore I make known to you ,
that no man speaking by the Spirit of God says ,
Jesus is accursed ,
and no man can say ,
Jesus is Lord ,
except by Holy Spirit .
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Now there are varieties of gifts ,
but the same Spirit .
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And there are varieties of services ,
and the same Lord .
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And there are varieties of functions ,
but it is the same God who works all in all .
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But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each man toward that which is beneficial .
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For to one ,
the word of wisdom is given through the Spirit ,
and to another ,
the word of knowledge according to the same Spirit ,
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to a different man ,
faith by the same Spirit ,
and to another ,
gifts of healings by the same Spirit ,
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and to another ,
workings of miracles ,
and to another ,
prophecy ,
and to another ,
discerning of spirits ,
and to a different man ,
kinds of tongues ,
and to another ,
the interpretation of tongues .
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But the one and the same Spirit works all these things ,
distributing to each man individually as it wills .
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For just as the body is one and has many parts ,
and all the parts of the body ,
being many ,
are one body ,
so also is the Christ .
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For also by one Spirit we are all immersed into one body ,
whether Jews or Greeks ,
whether bondmen or freemen ,
and we were all made to drink into one Spirit .
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For the body also is not one part ,
but many .
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If the foot should say ,
Because I am not a hand I am not of the body ,
it is not by this not of the body .
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And if the ear should say ,
Because I am not an eye I am not of the body ,
it is not by this not of the body .
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If the whole body were an eye ,
where would be the hearing ?
If the whole were hearing ,
where would be the smelling ?
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But now God has placed the parts ,
each one of them ,
in the body just as he intended .
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And if they were all one part ,
where would be the body ?
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But now of course there are many body-parts ,
but one body .
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And the eye cannot say to the hand ,
I have no need of thee ,
nor again the head to the feet ,
I have no need of you .
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Instead ,
much more the parts of the body that seem to be more feeble are necessary .
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And those things of the body presumed to be without esteem ,
we place around these more abundant worth .
And our unpresentable parts have more abundant propriety ,
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whereas our presentable parts have no need .
Instead ,
God united the body together ,
having given more abundant worth to the part that lacks ,
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so that there would be no schisms in the body ,
but that the parts would have the same care for each other .
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And if one part suffers ,
all the parts suffer together ,
or one part is honored ,
all the parts rejoice together .
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Now ye are the body of Christ ,
and body-parts individually .
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And in the church God has placed men who are first apostles ,
secondly prophets ,
thirdly teachers ,
then miracles ,
then gifts of healings ,
helps ,
administrations ,
kinds of tongues .
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Are all apostles ?
Are all prophets ?
Are all teachers ?
Do all do miracles ?
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Do all have gifts of healing ?
Do all speak with tongues ?
Do all interpret ?
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But be zealous for the better gifts .
And yet I show you a more excellent way .
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If I speak with the tongues of men and of heavenly agents ,
but have not love ,
I have become sounding brass ,
or a clashing cymbal .
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And if I have prophecy ,
and know all mysteries and all knowledge ,
and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains ,
and have not love ,
I am nothing .
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And if I dole out all things possessed by me ,
and if I deliver my body so that I may be burned ,
and have not love ,
I benefit nothing .
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Love is patient and is kind .
Love does not envy .
Love does not brag ,
and is not puffed up .
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It does not behave improperly ,
does not seek the things of itself ,
is not made sharp ,
does not contemplate evil ,
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does not rejoice in wrong but rejoices in the truth ,
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covers all things ,
believes all things ,
hopes all things ,
endures all things .
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Love never fails .
But whether prophecies ,
they will be abolished ,
whether tongues ,
they will cease ,
whether knowledge ,
it will be abolished .
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But we know in part ,
and we prophesy in part ,
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but when the perfect comes ,
then what is in part will be abolished .
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When I was a child ,
I spoke as a child ,
I understood as a child ,
I reasoned as a child ,
but when I became a man ,
I abolished the childish things .
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For now we see by polished metal ,
in dimness ,
but then face to face .
Now I know in part ,
but then I will know just as also I was known .
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And now remain faith ,
hope ,
love ,
these three ,
but the greater of these is love .
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Pursue love ,
and be zealous for the spiritual things ,
but more that ye may prophesy .
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For he who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men ,
but to God ,
for no man hears ,
but in spirit he speaks mysteries .
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But he who prophesies speaks to men edification and encouragement and comfort .
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He who speaks in a tongue builds himself up ,
but he who prophesies builds up the congregation .
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Now I want you all to speak in tongues ,
but more that ye may prophesy .
For greater is he who prophesies than he who speaks in tongues ,
unless he interprets ,
so that the congregation may receive edification .
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But now ,
brothers ,
if I come to you speaking in tongues ,
what will I benefit you ,
unless I would speak to you either in a revelation ,
or in knowledge ,
or in prophesying ,
or in doctrine ?
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Likewise lifeless things that give a sound ,
whether flute or harp ,
if they give no distinction in the sounds ,
how will it be known what is being piped or harped ?
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For also if a trumpet gives an uncertain sound ,
who will prepare himself for battle ?
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So also ye ,
unless ye give understandable speech by the tongue ,
how will that which is spoken be known ?
For ye will be talking into the air .
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Since there are perhaps ,
so many kinds of voices in the world ,
and none of them is without significance .
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If therefore I know not the force of the voice ,
I will be a foreigner to him who speaks ,
and he who speaks will be a foreigner to me .
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So also ye ,
since ye are zealots of spirits ,
seek so that ye may excel for the edification of the church .
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Therefore let him who speaks in a tongue pray that he may interpret .
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For if I pray in a tongue my spirit prays ,
but my intellect is unfruitful .
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What is it therefore ?
I will pray with the spirit ,
and I will pray with the intellect also .
I will sing with the spirit ,
and I will sing with the intellect also .
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Otherwise if thou would bless with the spirit ,
how will the man who fills the place of the unlearned ,
say the Truly at thy thanksgiving ,
since he knows not what thou say ?
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For thou indeed express thanks well ,
but the other man is not edified .
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I thank my God that I speak in tongues more than all of you .
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Yet in an assembly I would rather speak five words with my intellect ,
so that I might also make others understand ,
than countless words in a tongue .
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Brothers ,
become not children in your thoughts .
Instead be childlike in wickedness ,
but in your thoughts become mature .
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In the law it is written ,
In other tongues and in other lips I will speak to this people ,
and not even so will they hear me ,
says Lord .
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Therefore tongues are for a sign ,
not to those who believe ,
but to the unbelieving .
But prophesying is not to the unbelieving ,
but to those who believe .
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If therefore the whole congregation comes together in the same place ,
and all speak in tongues ,
and unlearned or unbelieving men come in ,
will they not say that ye are mad ?
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But if all prophesy ,
and some unbelieving or unlearned man comes in ,
he is convicted by all ,
he is called to account by all .
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And so the secrets of his heart are made manifest .
And so having fallen down on his face he will worship God ,
declaring that God is really among you .
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What is it therefore ,
brothers ?
When ye come together ,
each of you has a psalm ,
has a teaching ,
has a tongue ,
has a revelation ,
has an interpretation .
Let all things be done for edification .
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If any man speaks in a tongue ,
be according to two ,
or at the most three ,
and in succession .
And let one interpret .
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But if there is no interpreter ,
let him keep silence in an assembly ,
and let him speak to himself and to God .
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And let two or three prophets speak ,
and let the other men pass judgment .
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But if it should be revealed to another man who is seated ,
let the first be silent .
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For ye can all prophesy one by one ,
so that all may learn ,
and all may be encouraged .
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And the spirits of prophets are subject to prophets ,
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for God is not a God of confusion ,
but of peace .
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As in all the churches of the sanctified ,
let the women keep silent in the churches .
For it is not permitted for them to speak ,
but to be subordinate ,
as the law also says .
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And if they want to learn anything ,
let them question their own husbands at home ,
for it is an ugly thing for women to speak in an assembly .
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Or did the word of God come forth from you ?
Or did it come to you only ?
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If any man presumes to be a prophet or spiritual ,
let him acknowledge what I write to you ,
that they are commandments of Lord .
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But if any man is ignorant ,
let him be ignorant .
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Therefore brothers ,
be zealous for prophesying ,
and do not forbid to speak in tongues .
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Let all things be done decently and in order .
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And ,
brothers ,
I make known to you the good-news that I preached to you ,
which also ye received ,
and in which ye stand ,
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by which also ye are saved if ye hold firm that word I preached to you ,
unless ye believed in vain .
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For I delivered to you at first what I also received ,
that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures ,
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and that he was buried ,
and that he arose on the third day according to the scriptures ,
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and that he appeared to Cephas ,
then to the twelve .
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Then he appeared to over five hundred brothers at once ,
of whom the greater part remain until now ,
but some also slept .
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Then he appeared to James ,
then to all the apostles ,
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and last of all ,
as to the untimely birth ,
he also appeared to me .
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For I am the least of the apostles ,
who am not worthy to be called an apostle ,
because I persecuted the church of God .
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But by the grace of God I am what I am .
And his grace for me did not become empty ,
but I labored more abundantly than them all ,
yet not I ,
but the grace of God with me .
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Therefore whether I or those men ,
so we proclaim ,
and so ye believed .
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Now if Christ is proclaimed that he has risen from the dead ,
how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead ?
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But if there is no resurrection of the dead ,
neither has Christ risen .
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And if Christ has not risen ,
then our preaching is empty ,
and your faith is also empty .
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And also we are found FALSE witnesses of God ,
because we witnessed according to God that he raised up the Christ ,
whom he did not raise up ,
if therefore the dead are really not raised .
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For if the dead are not raised ,
neither has Christ been raised .
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And if Christ has not been raised ,
your faith is vain .
Ye are still in your sins .
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Then also those who slept in Christ have perished .
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If we are men who have hoped in Christ in this life only ,
we are of all men more miserable .
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But now Christ has been raised from the dead .
He became the first fruit of those who are asleep .
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For since death is because of a man ,
the resurrection of the dead is also because of a man .
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For as by Adam all die ,
so also by Christ all will be made alive .
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But each in his own order .
Christ the first fruit ,
then those of Christ at his coming .
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Afterwards the end ,
when he delivers up the kingdom to the God and Father ,
when he will abolishes all rule ,
and all authority and power .
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For he must reign until he will put all his enemies under his feet .
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The last enemy abolished is death .
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For he subordinated all things under his feet .
But when he says that all things have been subordinated ,
it is clear that he who subordinated all things under him ,
is excepted .
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And when all things are made subordinate to him ,
then the Son himself will also be made subordinate to him who subordinated all things to him ,
so that God may be all in all .
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Otherwise what will they do who are immersed for the dead ?
If the dead do not rise at all ,
why then are they immersed for the dead ?
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And we ,
why are we in peril every hour ?
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By the pride that belongs to you ,
that I keep in Christ Jesus our Lord ,
I die daily .
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If in respect to men I fought with beasts at Ephesus ,
what is the benefit to me if the dead are not raised ?
Let us eat and drink ,
for tomorrow we die .
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Be not led astray .
Evil associations corrupt good habits .
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Sober up rightly ,
and do not sin ,
for some have ignorance of God .
I speak shame about you .
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But some man will say ,
How are the dead raised ,
and with what kind of body do they come ?
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Thou foolish man ,
what thou sow is not made alive unless it dies .
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And what thou sow ,
thou do not sow the body that it will become ,
but a bare grain ,
if it may happen of wheat ,
or of some other kind .
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But God gives it a body as he wills ,
and to each of the seeds its own body .
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All flesh is not the same flesh ,
but one of men ,
and another flesh of beasts ,
and another of fishes ,
and another of birds ,
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and heavenly bodies ,
and earthly bodies (
but the glory of the heavenly is different ,
and the glory of the earthly is different ),
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another glory is of the sun ,
and another glory of the moon ,
and another glory of the stars ,
for star differs from star in glory .
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So also is the resurrection of the dead .
It is sown in the perishable ,
it is raised in imperishability .
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It is sown in dishonor ,
it is raised in glory .
It is sown in weakness ,
it is raised in power .
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It is sown a natural body ,
it is raised a spiritual body .
There is a natural body ,
and there is a spiritual body .
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And so it is written ,
The first man Adam developed into a living soul .
The last Adam a life giving spirit .
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Nevertheless the spiritual is not first ,
but the natural ,
then the spiritual .
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The first man was of the earth ,
earthly .
The second man is the Lord from heaven .
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As is the earthly ,
such also are the earthly .
And as is the heavenly ,
such also are the heavenly .
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And just as we have worn the form of the earthly ,
we will also wear the form of the heavenly .
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Now this I affirm ,
brothers ,
that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God ,
nor does the perishable inherit imperishability .
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Behold ,
I tell you a mystery .
We will actually not all sleep ,
but we will all be transformed ,
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in an instant ,
in the blink of an eye ,
at the last trumpet .
For it will sound ,
and the dead will be raised imperishable ,
and we will be transformed .
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For this perishable must put on imperishability ,
and this mortal put on immortality .
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But when this perishable will have put on imperishability ,
and this mortal will have put on immortality ,
then will come to pass the saying that is written ,
Death was swallowed up in victory .
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O death ,
where is thy sting ?
O Hades ,
where is thy victory ?
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The sting of death is sin ,
and the power of sin is the law .
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But thanks is to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ .
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Therefore ,
my beloved brothers ,
become ye steadfast ,
unmovable ,
always abounding in the work of the Lord ,
knowing that your labor is not empty in Lord .
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Now concerning the collection for the sanctified ,
as I arranged for the congregations of Galatia ,
so also do ye .
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Upon the first day of the week let each of you set something aside near himself ,
storing up whatever he may prosper ,
so that when I come no collections may be made then .
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And when I arrive ,
whomever ye may approve by letters ,
I will send these men to bring your gift to Jerusalem .
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And if it is fitting for me to go also ,
they will go with me .
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But I will come to you when I pass through Macedonia ,
for I do pass through Macedonia .
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And it may be that I will remain with you ,
or I will even spend winter ,
so that ye may set me on my way wherever I go .
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For I do not want to see you now in passing ,
but I hope to remain some time with you ,
if the Lord allows .
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But I will remain at Ephesus until Pentecost .
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For a great and effective door has opened to me ,
and yet there are many who are hostile .
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But if Timothy comes ,
see that he becomes without fear with you ,
for he works the work of Lord ,
as I also .
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Let not any man therefore disparage him ,
but send him forth in peace ,
so that he may come to me ,
for I expect him with the brothers .
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And about Apollos the brother ,
I urged him much that he would come to you with the brothers ,
and it was not at all his will that he should come now ,
but he will come when he has opportunity .
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Watch ye ,
stand firm in the faith ,
act like men ,
be strong .
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Let all things of you be done in love .
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Now I beseech you ,
brothers (
ye know the house of Stephanas ,
that it is the first fruit of Achaia ,
and that they committed themselves to service for the sanctified ),
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that ye also be subject to such men ,
and to every man working together and laboring .
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And I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus ,
because these men filled your lack .
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For they refreshed my spirit and yours .
Therefore acknowledge ye such men .
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The congregations of Asia salute you .
Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in Lord ,
with the congregation associated with their house .
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All the brothers salute you .
Salute each other by a holy kiss .
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The salutation of Paul by my hand .
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If any man does not love the Lord Jesus Christ ,
let him be accursed .
Maranatha .
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The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ is with you .
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My love is with you all in Christ Jesus .
Truly .
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