1Corinthians:1:18-2
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For this doctrine (
the doctrine of the cross )
is ,
indeed ,
foolishness to the destroyed ;
but to us ,
who are saved ,
it is the power of God .
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Therefore ,
it is written ,» '
I will destroy the wisdom of the wise ,
and will set aside the knowledge of the prudent .'
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Where is the wise man ?
where the scribe ?
where the disputers of this world ?
Has not God shown the wisdom of this world to be folly ?
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For ,
when ,
in the wisdom of God ,
the world ,
through wisdom ,
knew not God ,
it pleased God ,
through the foolishness of this proclamation ,
to save them who believe .
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And though the Jews demand a sign ,
and the Greeks seek wisdom ;
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yet we proclaim a crucified Christ :
to the Jews ,
indeed ,
a stumbling block ,
and to the Greeks foolishness :
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but to them who are called ,
both Jews and Greeks ,
Christ ,
the power of God and the wisdom of God .
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Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men ,
and the weakness of God is stronger than men .
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For you see the calling of you ,
brethren ,
that not many wise men after the flesh ,
not many mighty ,
not many noble ;
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but God has chosen the foolish of the world to put the wise to shame ;
and the weak God has chosen to put the strong to shame ;
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the ignoble of the world ,
and the despised ,
God has chosen ;
nay ,
those that are nothing ,
to reduce to nothing those that are ;
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that not flesh might boast in his presence .
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Of him ,
therefore ,
you are in Christ Jesus ,
who is become to us wisdom from God ,
justification ,
also ,
and sanctification ,
and redemption .
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So that ,
as it is written ,» '
Let him who boasts ,
boast in the Lord .'
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Now ,
I would not have you ignorant ,
brethren ,
that our fathers were all under the cloud ,
and all passed through the sea :
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and all were immersed into Moses ,
in the cloud and in the sea ;
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and all did eat the same spiritual meat ;
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and all did drink the same spiritual drink ; (
for they drank of the spiritual rock ,
which followed them ,
and that rock was Christ .)
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Nevertheless ,
with the greater part of them ,
God was not well pleased ;
for they were cast down in the wilderness .
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Now ,
these things have become types to us ,
in order that we should not be lusters after evil things ,
even as they lusted .
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Neither be you idolaters ,
as some of them were ;
as it is written ,» '
The people sat down to eat ,
and to drink ,
and rose up to dance .'
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Neither let us commit whoredom ,
as some of them committed whoredom ,
and fell ,
in one day ,
twenty-three thousand .
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Neither let us grievously tempt Christ ,
as some of them tempted ,
and perished by serpents .
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Neither murmur you ,
as even some of the murmured ,
and perished by the destroyer .
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Now ,
all these things happened to them as types ;
and are written for our admonition ,
on whom the ends of the ages are come .
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Wherefore ,
let him who thinks he stands ,
take heed ,
lest he fall .
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No trial has come upon you but such as belongs to man ;
and God is faithful ,
who will not suffer you to be tried above what you are able ,
but will ,
with the trial ,
also make a way to escape ,
that you may be able to bear .
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Wherefore ,
my beloved ,
fly from idolatry .
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I speak as to wise men ;
judge you what I say .
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The cup of blessing ,
which we bless ;
is it not the joint participation of the blood of Christ ?
The loaf ,
which we break ;
is it not the joint participation of the body of Christ ?
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Because there is one loaf ,
we ,
the many ,
are one body :
for we all participate of that one loaf .
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Look at Israel after the flesh .
Are not they ,
who eat of the sacrifices ,
joint partakers of the altar ?
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What ,
then ,
do I affirm ?
that an idol is anything ,
or than an idol sacrifice is anything ?
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No .
But ,
that what the heathens sacrifice ,
they sacrifice to demons ,
and not to God .
Now ,
I would not have you become joint partakers with the demons .
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You can not drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons :
you can not partake of the table of the Lord ,
and of the table of demons .
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Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy ?
Are we stronger than he ?
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All things are lawful ,
but all are not expedient ;
all are lawful ,
but all do not edify .
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Let no one seek his own ,
but that of his neighbor ,
also .
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Whatever is sold in the shambles ,
eat ,
asking no question on account of conscience ;
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for the earth is the Lord '
s ,
and the fullness thereof .»
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And if any of the unbelievers invite you ,
and you incline to go ,
whatever is set before you ,
eat ;
asking no question on account of conscience .
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But if any one say to you ,
This is a thing sacrificed to an idol ;
do not eat ,
on account of him who showed it ,
and of conscience .
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Now ,
I say conscience ,
not your own ,
but that of the other .
But why is my liberty judged by another '
s conscience ?
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But if ,
by favor ,
I be a partaker ,
why am I evil spoken of ,
for that for which I give thanks ?
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Whether ,
then ,
you eat or drink ,
or whatever you do ,
do all to the glory of God .
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Be no occasion of stumbling ;
neither to the Jews ,
nor to the Greeks ,
nor to the congregation of God .
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Even as I please all men in all things ;
not seeking my own advantage ,
but that of the many ,
that they may be saved .
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Become imitators of me ,
even as I also am of Christ .
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Now I praise you ,
brethren ;
because ,
in all things you remember me ,
and hold fast the traditions as I delivered them to you .
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But I would have you know ,
that the head of every man is Christ ;
and the head of the woman is the man ;
and the head of Christ is God .
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Every man who prays ,
or prophesies ,
having his head covered ,
dishonors his head .
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And every woman who prays ,
or prophesies ,
with her head uncovered ,
dishonors her head .
Besides ,
it is one and the same ,
with being shaved .
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Wherefore ,
if a woman be not veiled ,
even let her be shorn :
but ,
if it be shame for a woman to be shorn or shaved ,
let her be veiled .
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Now ,
man ,
indeed ,
ought not to cover the head ,
being the image and glory of God ,
but woman is the glory of man .
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Besides the man is not of the woman ;
but the woman is of the man .
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And ,
also ,
the man was not created for the woman ,
but the woman for the man .
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For this reason ,
ought the woman to have a vail on her head ,
on account of the messengers .
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However ,
neither is the man ,
without the woman ,
nor the woman without the man ,
in the Lord .
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Besides ,
as the woman is from the man ,
so also ,
the man is by the woman ;
but all from God .
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Judge in yourselves ,
is it decent that a woman pray to God unveiled ?
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Does not even nature itself teach you that if ,
indeed ,
a man have long hair ,
it is a disgrace to him ?
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But if a woman have long hair ,
it is a glory to her :
for her hair is given to her for a vail .
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However ,
if any one resolve to be contentious ,
we have no such custom ;
neither the congregations of God .
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Now ,
in declaring this ,
that you come together ,
not for the better ,
but for the worse ,
I do not praise you .
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For ,
first ,
indeed ,
I hear ,
that when you come together in the congregation ,
there are schisms among you ;
and I partly believe it .
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For there must even be sects among you ,
that the approved among you may be made manifest .
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But your coming together into one place ,
is not to eat the Lord '
s supper .
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For ,
in eating it ,
every one takes first his own supper ;
and one ,
indeed ,
is hungry ,
and another is filled .
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What !
have you not houses ,
to eat and to drink in ?
or ,
do you despise the congregation of God and put to shame those who have not ?
What shall I say to you ?
Shall I praise you ?
In this ,
I praise you not .
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For I received from the Lord what ,
also ,
I delivered to you ;
that the Lord Jesus ,
in the night in which we was betrayed ,
took a loaf ;
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and ,
having given thanks ,
he broke it ;
and said ,
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In like manner ,
also ,
the cup ,
after he had supped ;
saying ,
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For as often as you eat this loaf ,
and drink this cup ,
you openly publish the death of the Lord ,
until he come .
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So ,
then ,
whosoever shall eat this loaf ,
and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily ,
shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord .
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But let a man examine himself ,
and then let him eat of the loaf ,
and drink of the cup .
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For he who eats and drinks unworthily ,
eats and drinks judgment to himself ,
not distinguishing the body of the Lord .
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For this cause ,
many among you are weak and sick ,
and a considerable number are fallen asleep .
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But if we would judge ourselves ,
we should not be judged .
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Yet ,
when we are judged by the Lord ,
we are corrected ,
that we may not be condemned with the world .
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Wherefore ,
my brethren ,
when you come together to eat ,
wait for each other .
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And if any one hunger ,
let him eat at home ,
that you may not come together for judgment .
And the other things I will set in order when I come .
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Now ,
concerning spiritual gifts ,
brethren ,
I would not have you ignorant .
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You know that you were Gentiles ,
led away to dumb idols ,
even as you happened to be led .
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Wherefore ,
I inform you ,
that no one ,
speaking by the Spirit of God ,
pronounces Jesus accursed ;
and ,
that no one can declare Jesus Lord ,
except by the Holy Spirit .
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Now ,
there are diversities of gifts ,
but the same spirit .
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And there are diversities of ministries ,
but the same Lord .
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And there are diversities of operations ,
but the same God ,
who works all in all .
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And to each is given this manifestation of the Spirit ,
for the advantage of all .
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For to one ,
indeed ,
is given ,
by the Spirit ,
the word of wisdom :
and to another ,
the word of knowledge ,
according to the same Spirit .
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And to another ,
faith ,
by the same Spirit :
and to another ,
healing ,
by the same Spirit :
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and to another ,
the operations of powers :
and to another ,
prophecy :
and to another ,
diverse kinds of foreign tongues :
and to another ,
the interpretation of foreign tongues .
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Now ,
all these does the one and the same Spirit effectively work ;
distributing to each ,
respectively ,
as he pleases .
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For ,
as the body is one ,
although it have many members ;
and all the members of that one body ,
being many ,
are one body ,
so also is Christ .
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For ,
indeed ,
by one Spirit ,
we all have been immersed into one body ;
whether Jews or Greeks ,
whether slaves or freemen ;
and all have been made to drink of one Spirit .
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Since ,
then ,
the body is not one member ,
but many ;
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if the foot shall say ,
Because I am not the hand ,
I am not of the body ;
is it ,
for this ,
not of the body ?
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And if the ear shall say ,
Because I am not the eye ,
I am not of the body ;
is it ,
for this ,
not of the body ?
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If the whole body were an eye ,
where were the hearing ?
If the whole were hearing ,
where were the smelling ?
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But ,
now ,
God has placed the members ,
every one of them ,
in the body ,
as he has pleased .
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Besides ,
if all were one member ,
where were the body ?
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But now ,
indeed ,
there are many members ,
but one body .
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Therefore ,
the eye can not say to the hand ,
I have no need of you :
nor ,
again ,
the head to the feet ,
I have no need of you .
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Nay ,
those members of the body which seem to be more feeble ,
are necessary .
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And those which we think are less honorable members of the body ,
around them we throw more abundant honor ;
and so our uncomely members have more abundant comeliness .
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But ,
our comely members have no need .
However ,
God has tempered the body together ;
having given to the member which wants it ,
more abundant honor .
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That there may be no schism in the body ;
but ,
that the members may have the very same anxious care ,
one for another .
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So ,
whether one member suffer ,
all the members sympathize ;
or ,
one member be honored ,
all the members rejoice together .
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Now ,
you are Christ '
s body ,
and members in particular .
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And these ,
indeed ,
God has placed in the congregation :
first ,
Apostles ;
secondly ,
prophets ;
thirdly ,
teachers ;
next ,
powers ;
then ,
gifts of healing ;
helpers ,
directors ,
kinds of foreign languages .
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Are all Apostles ?
are all prophets ?
are all teachers ?
have all powers ?
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have all the gift of healing ?
do all speak in foreign languages ?
do all interpret ?
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Now ,
ardently desire the best gifts ;
and yet I show you a more excellent way .
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Though I could speak with the tongues of men ,
of angels ,
but have not love ,
I become as sounding brass ,
or a noisy cymbal .
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And though I have prophecy ,
and know all secrets ,
and all knowledge ;
and though I have all faith ,
so as to remove mountains ,
but have not love ,
I am nothing .
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And though I spend all my goods in feeding the poor ,
and though I deliver my body to be burned ,
but have not love ,
I am nothing profited .
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Love suffers long ,
and is kind .
Love envies not .
Love does not vaunt ;
is not puffed up ;
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does not behave itself unbecomingly ;
does not seek its own things ;
is not exasperated ;
does not imagine evil ;
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does not rejoice in iniquity ,
but greatly 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 out of use :
or foreign languages ,
they shall cease :
or science ,
it shall be abolished .
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For we know only in part ,
and prophesy in part .
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But when perfection is come ,
then what is in part will be done away .
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When I was a child ,
I spoke as a child ,
I conceived as a child ,
I reasoned as a child .
But when I became a man ,
I put away childish things .
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For now we seek through a glass obscurely ;
but then ,
face to face :
now ,
I know in part ;
but then ,
I shall fully know ,
even as I am fully known .
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And now abide faith ,
hope ,
love ,
these three :
but the greatest of these is love .
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Pursue love ,
and earnestly desire spiritual gifts ;
but especially that you may prophesy .
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For he who speaks in a foreign language ,
speaks not to men ,
but to God ;
for no one understands him :
nevertheless ,
by the Spirit he speaks secrets .
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But he who prophesies ,
speaks to men for edification ,
and exhortation ,
and consolation .
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He who speaks in a foreign language ,
edifies himself :
but he who prophesies ,
edifies the congregation .
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I wish ,
indeed ,
that you all spoke in foreign languages ;
but rather that you prophesied :
for greater is he who prophesies ,
than he who speaks in foreign languages ,
unless ,
indeed ,
he interpret ,
that the congregation may receive edification .
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For now ,
brethren ,
if I should come to you speaking in foreign languages ,
what shall I profit you ,
unless I shall speak to you intelligibly ;
either by revelation ,
or by knowledge ,
or by prophecy ,
or by doctrine ?
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In like manner ,
things without life ,
giving sound ;
whether pipe ,
or harp ;
unless they give a difference to the notes ,
how shall it be known what is piped ,
or harped ?
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And ,
therefore ,
if the trumpet give and unintelligible sound ,
who will prepare himself for battle ?
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So ,
also ,
you ,
unless with the tongue you give intelligible speech ,
how shall it be known what is spoken ?
Therefore ,
you will be speaking to the air .
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There are ,
perhaps ,
so many kinds of languages in the world ,
and none of them is without signification .
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Yet ,
if I do not know the meaning of the language ,
I shall be to him who speaks ,
a foreigner ;
and he who speaks ,
will be a foreigner to me .
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Wherefore ,
you ,
also ,
since you are earnestly desirous of spiritual gifts ,
seek them ,
that you may abound for the edification of the congregation .
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For which cause ,
let him who prays in a foreign language ,
pray that he may interpret .
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For if I pray in a foreign language ,
my spirit prays ;
but my understanding is unfruitful .
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What ,
then ,
is to be done ?
I will pray with the Spirit ,
but I will pray also with understanding :
I will sing with the Spirit ;
but I will sing also with understanding .
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Else ,
when you shall bless with the spirit ,
how shall he who fills up the place of the unlearned ,
say the Amen to your thanksgiving ,
since he knows not what you say ?
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For you ,
indeed ,
give thanks well ;
but the other is not edified .
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I give thanks to God ,
speaking in more foreign languages than all of you ;
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yet ,
in the congregation ,
I would rather speak five sentences with my meaning understood ,
that I may instruct others ,
also ,
than ten thousand sentences in a foreign language .
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Brethren ,
be not children in understanding ;
but in evil be children ,
and in understanding be full grown men .
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In the law it is written ,» '
Surely ,
with other tongues ,
and with other lips ,
I will speak to this people ;
yet not even then will they hearken to me ,
says the Lord .'
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So that foreign languages are for a sign ;
not to believers ,
but to unbelievers :
but prophecy is for a sign ;
not to unbelievers ,
but to believers .
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If ,
then ,
the whole congregation be come together in one place ,
and all speak in foreign languages ;
and there come in unlearned persons ,
or unbelievers ,
will they not say that you are mad ?
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But if all prophesy ,
and there come in an unbeliever ,
or an unlearned person ,
he is corrected by all ,
he is examined by all ;
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the hidden things of his heart are made manifest :
and so ,
falling on his face ,
he will worship God ,
publishing that God is actually among you .
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What is it ,
then ,
brethren ?
When you are come together ,
each of you has a psalm ,
has a discourse ,
has a foreign language ,
has a revelation ,
has an interpretation !
Let all things be done to edification .
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And if any one speak in a foreign language ,
let it be by two ,
or at most by three sentences ,
and separately ;
and let one interpret .
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But if there be no interpreter ,
let him be silent in the congregation ;
yet let him speak to himself and to God .
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Now ,
let two or three prophets speak ,
and let the others judge .
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But ,
if to another ,
sitting by ,
anything be revealed ,
let the first be silent .
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For you all can prophesy ,
one by one ,
that all may learn ,
and all may be comforted .
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For the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets .
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Besides ,
God is not the author of confusion ,
but of peace .
As in all the assemblies of the saints ,
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let your women be silent in the congregations :
for it has not been permitted to them to speak ,
but they must be in subjection ;
as the law also commands .
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And if they wish to learn anything ,
let them ask their own husbands ,
at home :
for it is an indecent thing for women to speak in the congregation .
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What !
went the word of God forth from you ?
or did it come to you only ?
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If any one be really a prophet ,
or spiritual person ,
let him acknowledge the things I write to you ,
that they are the commandments of the Lord .
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And if any one be ignorant ,
let him be ignorant .
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Wherefore ,
brethren ,
earnestly desire to prophesy ;
and hinder not to speak in foreign languages .
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Let all things be done decently and in order .
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Now I declare to you ,
brethren ,
the glad tidings which I announced to ;
which ,
also ,
you have received ,
and in which you stand .
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By which ,
also ,
you are saved ,
if you retain those joyful tidings which I delivered to you ;
unless you believed to no purpose .
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For I delivered to you ,
among the first things ,
what also I received first-that Christ died for our sins ,
according to the scriptures ;
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and that he was buried ;
and that he rose again the third day ,
according to the scriptures ;
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and that he was seen by Cephas ,
then by the twelve .
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After that ,
he was seen by above five hundred brethren at once ;
of whom the greater part remain to this present time ,
but some are fallen asleep .
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After that ,
he was seen by James ;
then ,
by all the Apostles .
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And ,
last of all he was seen by me ,
as by one born out of due time .
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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 congregation of God .
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But ,
by the favor of God ,
I am what I am :
and his favor which was bestowed on me ,
was not vain ;
for I have labored more abundantly than all of them ;
yet not I ,
but the favor of God ,
which is with me .
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Well ,
then ,
whether I or they ,
so we proclaim ,
and so you believed .
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Now ,
if it be proclaimed that Christ was raised from the dead ,
how is it that some among you say ,
that there is no resurrection of the dead ?
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For if there be no resurrection of the dead ,
neither has Christ been raised .
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And if Christ has not been raised ,
vain ,
certainly ,
is our proclamation ,
and vain ,
also ,
is your faith .
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Besides ,
we are found even false witnesses concerning God ;
because we have witnessed ,
with respect to God ,
that he raised Christ ;
whom he raised not ,
if ,
indeed ,
the dead are not raised .
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And if the dead are not raised ,
neither has Christ been raised ,
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Farther ,
if Christ has not been raised ,
your faith is useless ;
you are still in your sins .
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Certainly ,
also ,
they who are fallen asleep in Christ are perished .
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If in this life ,
only ,
we have hope in Christ ,
we are ,
of all men ,
the most miserable .
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But now Christ is raised from the dead , -
the first fruit of them who have fallen asleep .
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For since through a man came death ,
through a man also comes the resurrection of the dead .
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Therefore ,
as by Adam all die ,
so also by Christ all shall be made alive .
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But every one in his own rank :
Christ the first fruit ;
they that are Christ '
s ,
afterward ,
at his coming .
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Then comes the end ,
when he shall resign the kingdom to God ,
even the Father ;
when he shall have abolished all government ,
and all authority ,
and power .
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For he must reign till he has put all the enemies under his feet .
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The last enemy ,
Death ,
shall be destroyed .
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For he has subjected all things under his feet .
Now when it says that all things are subjected ,
it is manifest that he is excepted ,
who has subjected all things to him .
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Now ,
when all things are subjected to him ,
then even the Son himself shall be subjected to him ,
who subjected all things to him ,
that God may be all in all .
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Otherwise ,
what shall they do ,
who are immersed for the dead ,
if the dead rise not at all ?
why then are they immersed for them ?
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And why do we endanger ourselves every hour ?
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I solemnly declare ,
by your rejoicing ,
what I also have in Christ Jesus our Lord ,
that every day I die .
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If ,
after the manner of men ,
I have fought with wild beasts at Ephesus ,
what is the advantage to me ,
if the dead rise not ?
Let us eat and drink ,
for tomorrow we die .
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Be not deceived :
evil communications corrupt good manners .
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Awake up as you ought ,
and sin not ;
for some of you have not the knowledge of God .
For shame to you ,
I say it .
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But some one will say ,
How can the dead be raised up ?
and with what kind of body do they come ?
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Simpleton !
what you sow is not made alive ,
except it die .
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And as to what you sow ,
you do not show the body which shall be produced ,
but the naked grain ;
it may be of wheat ,
or of any other kind :
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but God gives it a body ,
as it has pleased him ;
and to each of the seeds ,
its proper body .
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All flesh is not the same flesh :
but there is ,
indeed ,
one flesh of men ,
and another of beasts ,
and another of fishes ,
and another of fowls .
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And there are bodies celestial ,
and bodies terrestrial :
but different ,
indeed ,
is the glory of the celestial ,
and that of the terrestrial .
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The glory of the sun is one ,
and the glory of the moon is another ,
and the glory of the stars another ;
moreover ,
star excels star in glory .
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Just so is the resurrection of the dead .
It is sown in corruption-it is raised in incorruption :
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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 an animal body-it is raised a spiritual body .
There is an animal body ,
and there is a spiritual body .
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For thus it is written ,» '
The first man ,
Adam ,
was made a living soul-the last Adam ,
a vivifying spirit .'
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However ,
that was not first ,
which is spiritual ;
but that which is animal ,
and then that which is spiritual .
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The first man ,
from the earth ,
was earthy ;
the second man is the Lord from heaven .
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As was the earthy ,
so also are the earthy ;
and as is the heavenly ,
such also shall be heavenly .
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For ,
as we have borne the image of the earthy ,
we shall also bear the image of the heavenly .
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And this I affirm ,
brethren ,
that flesh and blood can not inherit the kingdom of God ;
neither can corruption inherit incorruption .
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Behold ,
I tell you a secret :
we shall not ,
indeed ,
all die ;
but we shall all be changed ;
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in a moment ,
in the twinkling of an eye ,
at the last trumpet ;
for it shall sound ,
and then the dead shall be raised incorruptible ;
and we shall be changed .
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For this corruptible body ,
must put on incorruption ;
and this mortal body must put on immortality .
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Now ,
when this corruptible body shall have put on incorruption ,
and this mortal body shall have put on immortality ,
then that saying of scripture shall be accomplished ,» '
Death is swallowed up forever .'
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Death !
where is thy sting ?
Hades !
where is thy victory ?
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For the sting of death is sin ,
and the strength of sin is the law .
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Now thanks be to God ,
who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ .
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Wherefore ,
my beloved brethren ,
be stable ,
unmoved ;
abounding in the work of the Lord at all times ,
knowing that your labor is not vain in the Lord .
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Now ,
concerning the collection ,
which is for the saints ;
as I ordered the congregations of Galatia ,
so also so you .
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On the first say of the week ,
let each of you lay somewhat by itself ,
according as he may have prospered ,
putting it into the treasury ;
that when I come ,
there may be then no collection .
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And when I come ,
whomsoever you shall approve by letters ,
them I will send to carry your gift to Jerusalem .
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Or ,
if it be proper that even I should go ,
they shall go with me .
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Now ,
I will come to you ,
when I have passed through Macedonia , (
for I do pass through Macedonia ;)
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and ,
perhaps ,
I shall abide ,
and even winter with you ,
that you may send me forward ,
whithersoever I may go .
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For I will not now see you in passing ;
but I hope to remain with you sometime ,
if the Lord permit .
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However ,
I shall remain at Ephesus till Pentecost .
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For a great and effectual door is opened to me ,
yet there are many opposers .
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Now ,
if Timothy be come ,
take care that he be among you without fear ;
for he works ,
even as I do ,
the work of the Lord .
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Wherefore ,
let no one despise him ;
but send him forward in peace ,
that he may come to me ;
for I expect him with the brethren .
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And with relation to our brother Apollos ,
I entreated him much to go to you with the brethren ;
but his inclination was not at all to go now ,
but he will go when he shall find a convenient season .
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Watch ;
stand fast in the faith ;
acquit yourselves like men ;
be strong .
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Let all things be done with love .
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You know the family of Stephanus ,
that it is the first fruit of Achaia ,
and that they have devoted themselves to the ministry of the saints .
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I entreat you ,
therefore ,
brethren ,
that you submit yourselves to such ,
and to every joint worker and laborer .
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I am glad of the coming of Stephanus ,
and Fortunatus ,
and Achaicus ;
for they have supplied your deficiency ,
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and have refreshed my spirit and yours ;
wherefore ,
acknowledge such persons .
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The congregations of Asia salute you .
Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord ,
with the congregation which is in their house .
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All the brethren salute you .
Salute one another with a holy kiss .
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The salutation of Paul with my own hand .
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If any one love not the Lord Jesus Christ ,
he shall be accursed when the Lord comes .
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The favor of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you .
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My love be with you all in Christ Jesus .
Amen .
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