for the man is not from the woman, but the woman from the man;

and the man was not created for the woman, but the woman for the man.

Doth not even nature itself teach you, that if a man have long hair, it is a shame to him,

But I give you this charge, not praising you, because ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.

What! have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? Or despise ye the church of God, and shame those who have nothing? What am I to say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I do not praise you.

For I received of the Lord, what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took a loaf,

for he that eateth and drinketh eateth and drinketh judgment to himself, if he do not discern the body.

But if we judged ourselves, we should not be judged;

but when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

If any one hunger, let him eat at home; that ye may not come together to condemnation. And the rest I will set in order when I come.

Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant.

For the body also is not one member, but many.

If the foot say, Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body, is it for this reason not of the body?

And if the ear say, Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body, is it for this reason not of the body?

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.

while our seemly parts have no need. But God so put the body together, as to give special honor to that part which lacked,

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.

And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give up my body that I may be burned, and have not love, it profiteth me nothing.

Love suffereth long, is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not herself, is not puffed up,

doth not behave herself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, maketh no account of an injury,

rejoiceth not at iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth,

For he that speaketh in an [unknown] tongue speaketh not to men, but to God; for no one heareth; but in the Spirit he speaketh mysteries;

There are, it may be, so many kinds of languages in the world, and not one is without meaning.

If then I know not the meaning of the language, I shall be to him that speaketh a foreigner, and he that speaketh a foreigner to me.

Else, if thou bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupieth the place of the unlearned say the Amen at thy giving of thanks, since he understandeth not what thou art saying?

For thou indeed givest thanks well; but the other is not edified.

Brethren, do not become children in understanding; yet in malice be children, but in understanding be men.

and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord." Wherefore the tongues are for a sign, not to believers, but to unbelievers; but prophesying is not for unbelievers, but for believers.

If therefore the whole church be assembled in one place, and all be speaking with tongues, and there come in those who are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?

for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints,

let your women keep silence in the churches; for it is not permitted them to speak, but they are to be in subjection, as also saith the Law.

Wherefore, brethren, desire earnestly to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues;

For I am the least of the apostles, one not worthy 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 bestowed upon me was not in vain, but I labored more abundantly than they all; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then Christ hath not risen;

and if Christ hath not risen, then is our preaching vain, and vain also is your faith.

And we are also found false witnesses concerning God; because we testified concerning God that he raised up Christ, whom he did not raise up, if so be that the dead rise not.

For if the dead rise not, then Christ hath not risen;

and if Christ hath not risen, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins;

If it be not so, what are they doing, who are baptized for the dead? If the dead rise not at all, why are they then baptized for them?

If with the views of men I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what advantage is it to me? If the dead rise not, "let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."

Be not deceived; "evil communications corrupt good manners."

Awake, as is your duty, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God; I say it to your shame.

Fool! that which thou sowest is not brought to life unless it die;

and what thou sowest, not the body that shall be dost thou sow, but a bare grain, of wheat perhaps, or of some of the other grains;

All flesh is not the same flesh; but there is one flesh of men, another of beasts, another of birds, another of fishes.

But the spiritual is not first, but the animal; and afterward the spiritual.

Behold, I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep; but we shall all be changed,

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, since ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Every first day of the week let each of you lay by him something in store, according as he hath prospered; that the collections may not have to be made when I come.

As regards Apollos, the brother, I urged him much to come to you with the brethren; and it was not at all his will to come at this time; but he will come when he hath a convenient opportunity.

If any one loveth not the Lord, let him be accursed! The Lord is at hand.