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* For the word of the cross is foolishness to those being lost , but to us being saved , it is the power of God . * For it has been written , "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise , and I will set aside the understanding of the understanding ones ." Isaiah . strkjv @29:14 * Where is the wise ? Where the scribe ? Where the lawyer of this world ? Did God not make the wisdom of this world foolish ? * For since in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom did not know God , God was pleased through the foolishness of preaching to save the ones believing . * And since Jews ask for a sign , and Greeks seek wisdom , * we on the other hand preach Christ crucified (truly an offense to Jews , and foolishness to Greeks ), * but to the called-out ones , both to Jews and to Greeks , Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God ; * because the foolish thing of God is wiser than men , and the weak thing of God is stronger than men . * For you see your calling , brothers , that there are not many wise according to flesh , nor many powerful , not many wellborn . * But God chose the foolish things of the world that the wise might be put to shame , and God chose the weak things of the world so that He might put to shame the strong things . * And God chose the low-born of the world , and the despised , and the things that are not , so that He might bring to nothing the things that are , * so that no flesh might glory in His presence . * But of Him , you are in Christ Jesus , who was made to us wisdom from God , both righteousness and sanctification and redemption , * so that even as it has been written , "He that glories , let him glory in " the "Lord ." Jeremiah . strkjv @9:24 * And I do not want you to be ignorant , brothers , that our fathers were all under the cloud , and all passed through the Sea . * And all were baptized to Moses in the cloud , and in the Sea , * and all ate the same spiritual food . * And all drank the same spiritual drink ; for they drank of the spiritual rock following , and that Rock was Christ . * Yet God was not pleased with most of them , "for they were scattered in the deserted place ." Numbers . strkjv @14:16 * But these things became examples for us , so that we may not be lusters after evil , even as those indeed lusted . * Neither be idolaters , even as some of them , as it has been written , "The people sat down to eat and drink , and stood up to play ." Ex . strkjv @32:6 * Nor should we commit fornication , as some of them fornicated , and twenty three thousand fell in one day . * Neither over-tempt Christ , as some of them tempted , and perished by serpents . * Neither should you murmur , as also some of them murmured , and perished by the destroyer . * And all these things happened to those as examples , and it was written for our warning , on whom the ends of the ages have come . * So that he that thinks to stand , let him be careful that he not fall . * No temptation has taken you except what is human ; but God is faithful , who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able . But with the temptation , He will also make the way out , so that you may be able to bear it . * On account of this , flee from idolatry , my beloved . * I speak as to prudent ones ; you judge what I say . * The cup of blessing that we bless , is it not a partaking of the blood of Christ ? The bread which we break , is it not a partaking of the body of Christ ? * Because we , the many , are one bread , one body , for we all partake of the one bread . * Look at Israel according to flesh ; are not those eating the sacrifices partakers of the altar ? * What then do I say , that an idol is anything , or that an idolatrous sacrifice is anything ? * But the things the nations sacrifice , " they sacrifice to demons , and not to God ." Deuteronomy . strkjv @32:17 But I do not want you to become sharers of demons ; * you cannot drink the cup of the Lord and a cup of demons ; you cannot partake of the table of the Lord , and a table of demons . * Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy ? Are we stronger than He ? Deuteronomy . strkjv @32:21 * All things are lawful to me , but not all things profit . All things are lawful to me , but not all things build up . * Let no one seek the things of himself , but each one that of the other . * Eat everything being sold in a meat market , examining nothing because of conscience , * for "the earth is the Lord 's , and the fullness of it ." Psa . strkjv @24:1 * And if any of the unbelievers invite you , and you desire to go , eat everything set before you , examining nothing because of conscience . * But if anyone tells you , This is slain in sacrifice to idols , do not eat , because of that one pointing it out , and the conscience ; for "the earth is the Lord 's , and the fullness of it ." Psa . strkjv @24:1 * But I say conscience , not that of himself , but that of the other . For why is my freedom judged by another 's conscience ? * But if I partake by grace , why am I evil spoken of because of what I give thanks for ? * Then whether you eat or drink , or whatever you do , do all things to the glory of God . * Be without offense both to Jews and Greeks , and to the church of God . * Even as I also please all in all things , not seeking my own advantage , but that of the many , that they may be saved . * Be imitators of me , as I also of Christ . * But I praise you , brothers , that in all things you have remembered me , and even as I delivered to you , you hold fast the doctrines . * But I want you to know that Christ is the Head of every man , and the man is the head of a woman , and God is the head of Christ . * Every man praying or prophesying , having anything down over his head shames his Head . * And every woman praying or prophesying with the head unveiled dishonors her head , for it is the same as being shaved . * For if a woman is not veiled , let her also be shorn . But if it is shameful for a woman to be shorn , or to be shaved , let her be veiled . * For truly a man ought not to have the head covered , being the image and glory of God . But woman is the glory of man ; * for man is not of the woman , but woman of man ; * for also man was not created for the sake of the woman , but woman for the sake of the man ; * because of this , the woman ought to have authority on the head , because of the angels . * However , man is not apart from woman , nor woman apart from man , in the Lord . * For as the woman is out of the man , so also the man through the woman ; but all things from God . * You judge among yourselves : is it fitting for a woman to pray to God unveiled ? * Or does not nature herself teach you that if a man indeed wears long hair , it is a dishonor to him ? * But if a woman wears her hair long , it is a glory to her ; because the hair has been given to her corresponding to a veil . * But if anyone thinks to be contentious , we do not have such a custom , nor the churches of God . * But enjoining this , I do not praise you , because you come together not for the better , but for the worse . * Indeed , first , I hear divisions to be among you when you come together in the church . And I believe some part . * For there must also be heresies among you , so that the approved ones may become revealed among you . * Then you coming together into one place , it is not to eat the Lord 's supper . * For each one takes his own supper first in the eating ; and one is hungry , and another drunken . * For do you not have houses to eat and to drink ? Or do you despise the church of God , and shame those who have not ? What do I say to you ? Shall I praise you for this ? I do not praise . * 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 ; * and giving thanks , He broke and said , Take , eat ; this is My body which is broken on behalf of you ; this do in remembrance of Me . * In the same way the cup also , after supping , saying , This cup is the New Covenant in My blood ; as often as you drink , do this in remembrance of Me . See Luke strkjv @22:19 , 20 * For as often as you may eat this bread , and drink this cup , you solemnly proclaim the death of the Lord , until He shall come . * So that whoever should eat this bread , or drink the cup of the Lord , unworthily , that one will be guilty of the body and of the blood of the Lord . * But let a man examine himself , and so let him eat of the bread , and let him drink of the cup ; * for he eating and drinking unworthily eats and drinks judgment to himself , not discerning the body of the Lord . * For this reason many among you are weak and feeble , and many sleep . * For if we discerned ourselves , we would not be judged . * But being judged , we are corrected by the Lord , that we not be condemned with the world . * So that , my brothers , coming together to eat , wait for one another . * But if anyone is hungry , let him eat at home , that you may not come together for judgment . And the other things I will set in order whenever I come . * But concerning the spiritual things , brothers , I do not wish you to be ignorant . * You know that being led away , you nations were led to dumb idols . * Because of this I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God says , Jesus is a curse . And no one is able to say Jesus is Lord , except by the Holy Spirit . * And there are differences of gifts , but the same Spirit ; * and there are differences of ministries , yet the same Lord . * And there are differences of workings , but the same God is working all things in all . * And to each one is given the showing forth of the Spirit to our profit . * For through the Spirit is given to one a word of wisdom , and to another a word of knowledge , according to the same Spirit ; * and to another , faith by the same Spirit , and to another , gifts of healing by the same Spirit , * and to another , workings of powers , and to another , prophecy , and to another , discerning of spirits , and to another , kinds of languages , and to another , interpretation of languages . * But the one and the same Spirit works all these things , distributing separately to each as He wills . * Even as the body is one , and has many members , but all the members of the one body , being many , are one body , so also is Christ . * For also we all were baptized by one Spirit into one body , whether Jews or Greeks , whether slaves or free , even all were given to drink into one Spirit . * For also the body is not one member , but many . * If the foot says , Because I am not a hand , I am not of the body , on account of this , is it not of the body ? * And if the ear says , Because I am not an eye , I am not of the body , on account of this , is it not of the body ? * If all the body were an eye , where would be the hearing ? If all hearing , where the smelling ? * But now God set the members , each one of them , in the body , even as He desired . * But if all was one member , where would the body be ? * But now , indeed , many are the members , but one body . * And the eye is not able to say to the hand , I have no need of you ; or again the head to the feet , I have no need of you . * But much rather the members of the body seeming to be weaker are necessary . * And those of the body we think to be less honorable , to these we put more abundant honor around them . And our unpresentable members have more abundant propriety . * But our presentable members have no need . But God tempered the body together , giving more abundant honor to the member having need , * that there not be division in the body , but that the members might have the same care for one another . * And if one member suffers , all the members suffer with it . If one member is glorified , all the members rejoice with it . * And you are Christ 's body , and members in part . * And God placed some in the church : firstly apostles ; secondly , prophets ; thirdly , teachers ; then works of power ; then gifts of healing , helps , governings , kinds of languages . * Are all apostles ? All prophets ? All teachers ? All workers of power ? * Do all have gifts of healing ? Do all speak languages ? Do all interpret ? * But zealously strive after the better gifts . And yet I show you a way according to excellence : * If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels , but I do not have love , I have become as sounding brass or a clanging cymbal . * And if I have prophecies , and know all mysteries and all knowledge , and if I have all faith so as to move mountains , but do not have love , I am nothing . * And if I give out all my goods , and if I deliver my body that I be burned , but I do not have love , I am not profited anything . * Love has patience , is kind ; love is not envious ; love is not vain , is not puffed up ; * does not behave indecently , does not pursue its own things , is not easily provoked , thinks no evil ; * does not rejoice in unrighteousness , but rejoices in the truth . * Love quietly covers all things , believes all things , hopes all things , endures all things . * Love never fails . But if there are prophecies , they will be caused to cease ; if tongues , they shall cease ; if knowledge , it will be caused to cease . * For we know in part , and we prophesy in part ; * but when the perfect thing comes , then that which is in part will be caused to cease . * When I was an infant , I spoke as an infant , I thought as an infant , I reasoned as an infant . But when I became a man , I caused to cease the things of the infant . * For now we see through a mirror in dimness , but then face to face . Now I know in part , but then I will fully know even as I also was fully known . * And now faith , hope , and love , these three things remain ; but the greatest of these is love . * Pursue love , and seek eagerly the spiritual things , but rather that you may prophesy . * For the one speaking in a tongue does not speak to men , but to God , for no one hears , but in spirit he speaks mysteries . * But the one prophesying to men speaks for building up , and encouragement , and comfort . * The one speaking in a tongue builds himself up , but he prophesying builds up a church . * And I wish all of you to speak in languages , but rather that you may prophesy . For the one prophesying is greater than the one speaking in tongues , unless he interpret that the church may receive building up . * But now , brothers , if I come to you speaking in tongues , what will I profit you , except I speak to you either in revelation , or in knowledge , or in prophecy , or in teaching ? * Yet lifeless things giving a sound , whether flute or harp , if they do not give a distinction in the sound , how will it be known what is being piped or harped ? * For also if a trumpet gives an uncertain sound , who will get himself ready for war ? * So also you , if you do not give a clear word through the language , how will it be known what is being said ? For you will be speaking into air . * So it may be many kinds of sounds are in the world , and not one is without distinct sound . * If , then , I do not know the power of the sound , I will be a foreigner to the one speaking , and he speaking in me a foreigner . * So also you , since you are zealots of spiritual things , seek to build up the church that you may abound . * So then , the one speaking in a language , let him pray that he may interpret . * For if I pray in a tongue , my spirit prays , but my mind is unfruitful . * What then is it ? I will pray with the spirit , and I will also pray with the mind ; I will sing with the spirit , and I will also sing with the mind . * Else , if you bless in the spirit , the one occupying the place of the unlearned , how will he say the amen at your giving of thanks , since he does not know what you say ? * For you truly give thanks well , but the other is not built up . * I thank my God that I speak more languages than all of you . * But in a church I desire to speak five words with my mind , that I may also instruct others , than myriads of words in a foreign language . * Brothers , do not be children in your minds , but in malice be like infants , and in your minds be mature . * It has been written in the Law , "By other tongues " and "by other lips " "I will speak to this people ," "and even so they will not hear " Me , says the Lord ." Isaiah . strkjv @28:11 , 12 * So that tongues are not a sign to those believing , but to those not believing . But prophecy is not to those not believing , but to those believing . * Then if the whole church comes together , and all speak in languages , and uninstructed ones or unbelievers come in , will they not say that you rave ? * But if all prophesy , and some unbeliever or one not instructed comes in , he is convicted by all , he is judged by all . * And so the secrets of his heart become revealed ; and so , falling on his face , he will worship God , declaring that God is truly among you . * Then what is it , brothers ? When you come together , each one of you has a psalm , he has a teaching , he has a language , he has a revelation , he has an interpretation . Let all things be for building up . * If one speaks in a language , let it be by two or three at the most , and in turn , also let one interpret . * And if there is no interpreter , let him be silent in church , and let him speak to himself and to God . * And if there are two or three prophets , let them speak , and let the others discern . * But if a revelation is revealed to another sitting by , let the first be silent . * For you can all prophesy one by one , that all may learn , and all may be encouraged . * And the spirits of prophets are subject to prophets . * For God is not God of confusion , but of peace , as in all the churches of the saints . * Let your women be silent in the churches , for it is not allowed to them to speak , but to be in subjection , as also the Law says . * But if they desire to learn anything , let them question their husbands at home ; for it is a shame for a woman to speak in a church . * Or did the Word of God go out from you ? Or did it reach only to you ? * If anyone thinks to be a prophet , or a spiritual one , let him recognize the things I write to you , that they are a command of the Lord . * But if any be ignorant , let him be ignorant . * So then , brothers , seek eagerly to prophesy , and do not forbid to speak in languages . * And let all things be done decently and in order . * But , brothers , I reveal to you the gospel which I preached to you , which you also received , in which you also stand , * by which you also are being kept safe , if you hold fast the word which I preached to you , unless you believed in vain . * For I delivered to you in the first place what I also received , that Christ died for our sins , according to the Scriptures , * and that He was buried , and that He was raised the third day , according to the Scriptures , * and that He appeared to Peter , and then to the Twelve . * Then He appeared to over five hundred brothers at once , of whom the most remain until now , but some also fell asleep . * Then He was seen by James , then by all the apostles ; * and last of all , even as if to one born out of time , He was also seen by me . * For I am the least of the apostles , who am not sufficient to be called an apostle , because I persecuted the church of God . * But by the grace of God I am what I am , and His grace which was toward me has not been without fruit , but I labored more abundantly than all of them , yet not I , but the grace of God with me . * Then whether they or I , so we preach , and so you believed . * But if Christ is proclaimed , that He was raised from the dead , how do some among you say that there is not a resurrection of the dead ? * But if there is not a resurrection of the dead , neither has Christ been raised . * But if Christ has not been raised , then our proclamation is worthless , and your faith is also worthless . * And also we are found to be false witnesses of God , because we witnessed as to God that He raised Christ , whom He did not raise , if then dead ones are not raised . * For if the dead are not raised , Christ has not been raised . * But if Christ has not been raised , your faith is foolish ; you are still in your sins . * And then those that fell asleep in Christ were lost . * If we only have hope in Christ in this life , we are of all men most miserable . * But now Christ has been raised from the dead ; He became the firstfruit of those having fallen asleep . * For since death is through man , also through a Man is a resurrection of the dead ; * for as in Adam all die , so also in Christ all will be made alive . * But each in his own order : Christ , the firstfruit , afterward those of Christ at His coming . * Then is the end , when He delivers the kingdom to God , even the Father , when He makes to cease all rule and all authority and power . * for it is right for Him to reign until He puts all the enemies under His feet ; Psa . strkjv @110:1 * the last enemy made to cease is death . * For "He subjected all things under His feet ;" but when He says that all things have been subjected , it is plain that it excepts Him who has subjected all things to Him . Psa . strkjv @8:6 * But when all things are subjected to Him , then the Son Himself also will be subjected to the One who has subjected all things to Him , that God may be all things in all . * Otherwise , what will they do , those being baptized on behalf of the dead ? If the dead are not at all raised , why indeed are they baptized on behalf of the dead ? * Why are we also in danger every hour ? * Day by day I die , by your boasting , which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord . * If according to man I fought with beasts in Ephesus , what the profit to me if the dead are not raised ? ("Let us eat and drink , for tomorrow we die .") Isaiah . strkjv @22:13 * Do not be led astray ; bad companionships ruin good habits . * Be righteously awake , and do not sin ; for some have ignorance of God . I speak to your shame . * But someone will say , How are the dead raised ? And with what body do they come ? * Foolish one ! What you sow is not made alive unless it dies . * And what you sow , you do not sow the body that is going to be , but a bare grain , (it may be of wheat , or of some of the rest ), * and God gives it a body according as He willed , and to each of the seeds its own body . * Not every flesh is the same flesh , but one flesh of men , and another flesh of beasts , and another of fish , and another of birds . * And there are heavenly bodies , and earthly bodies . But the glory of the heavenly is truly different , and that of the earthly different ; * one glory of the sun , and another glory of the moon , and another glory of the stars ; for star differs from star in glory . * So also the resurrection of the dead . It is sown in corruption , it is raised in incorruption . * It is sown in dishonor , it is raised in glory . It is sown in weakness , it is raised in power . * It is sown a natural body , it is raised a spiritual body ; there is a natural body , and there is a spiritual body . * So also it has been written , "The " first "man ", Adam , "became a living soul ;" the last Adam a life-giving Spirit . Genesis . strkjv @2:7 * But not the spiritual first , but the natural ; afterward the spiritual . * The first man was out of earth , earthy . The second Man was the Lord out of Heaven . Genesis . strkjv @2:7 * Such the earthy man , such also the earthy ones . And such the heavenly Man , such also the heavenly ones . * And as we bore the image of the earthy man , we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man . * And I say this , brothers , that flesh and blood is not able to inherit the kingdom of God , nor does corruption inherit incorruption . * Behold , I speak a mystery to you : we shall not all fall asleep , but we shall all be changed . * In a moment , in a glance of an eye , at the last trumpet ; for a trumpet will sound , and the dead will be raised incorruptible , and we shall all be changed . * For this corruptible must put on incorruption , and this mortal must put on immortality . * But when this corruptible shall put on incorruption , and this mortal shall put on immortality , then will take place the word that has been written , "Death was swallowed up in victory ." Isaiah . strkjv @25:8 * "O death , where is your sting ? Hades , where is your victory ?" Hosea . strkjv @13:14 * Now the sting of death is sin , and the power of sin is the law ; * but thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ ! * So that , my beloved brothers , you be firm , immovable , abounding in the work of the Lord always , knowing that your labor is not without fruit in the Lord . * And about the collection for the saints , as I charged the churches of Galatia , so also you do . * On the first of a week , let each of you put by himself , storing up whatever he is prospered , that there not be collections then when I come . * And when I arrive , whomever you approve through these epistles , I will send to carry your grace to Jerusalem . * And if it is suitable for me to go also , they shall go with me . * But I will come to you when I go through Macedonia . For I am going through Macedonia . * And possibly I will stay with you , or even spend the winter , that you may set me forward wherever I may go . * For I do not desire to see you now in passage , but I am hoping to remain some time with you , if the Lord permits . * But I will remain in Ephesus until Pentecost . * For a door opened to me , great and effective , and many are opposing . * But if Timothy comes , see that he is with you without fear ; for he works the work of the Lord , even as I . * Then do not let any despise him , but set him forward in peace , that he may come to me ; for I am waiting for him with the brothers . * And concerning the brother Apollos , I much urged him that he come to you with the brothers , but it was not altogether his will that he come now . But he will come when he has opportunity . * Watch ! Stand fast in the faith ! Be men ! Be strong ! * Let all your things be in love . * But I exhort you , brothers . You know the house of Stephanas , that it is the firstfruit of Achaia , and they appointed themselves to ministry to the saints . * See that you also may submit to such ones , and to everyone working and laboring with me . * And I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas , and of Fortunatus and Achaicus , because these supplied your lack . * For they refreshed my spirit and yours . Then recognize such ones . * The churches of Asia greet you . Aquila and Priscilla much greet you in the Lord , with the church in their house . * The brothers all greet you . Greet one another with a holy kiss . * The greeting with my hand , Paul . * If anyone does not love the Lord Jesus Christ , let him be a curse . The Lord comes ! * The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you . * My love be with all of you in Christ Jesus . Amen .

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