for man was also not created on account of the woman, but woman on account of the man;

Does not even nature herself teach, that, if a man have long hair, it is a dishonor to him?

But, in giving this charge, I praise you not; because, not for the better, but for the worse, do ye come together.

When, therefore, ye assemble yourselves together, it is not to eat a Supper of the Lord;

What! have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? Or despise ye the assembly of God, and put to shame those who have them not? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I praise you not.

For I received from the Lord that which also I delivered to you: that the Lord Jesus, in the same night in which He was being betrayed, took bread;

for he that eats and drinks unworthily, eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the body.

For this cause, many among you are weak and sick, and not a few sleep.

But, if we discerned ourselves, we would not be judged;

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

If any one is hungry, let him eat at home, that ye come not together unto judgment. And the rest I will set in order, when I come.

Now concerning the spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not wish you to be ignorant.

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

If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body"; it is not, therefore, not of the body.

And, if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body"; it is not, therefore, not of the body.

And the eye cannot say to the hand, "I have no need of you"; nor again the head to the feet, "I have no need of you."

but our comely parts have no need. But God attempered the body, giving the more abundant honor to that which lacked;

If I speak with tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

And, if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all the mysteries and all knowledge; and, if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing,

And, if I bestow in morsels all my goods; and, if I give my body to he burned, but have not love, I am profited nothing.

Love suffers long, is kind; love envies not; love vaunts not herself, is not puffed up,

behaves not unseemly, seeks not her own, is not provoked, takes no account of evil,

rejoices not at unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

For he that speaks in a tongue speaks not to men, but to God; for no one understands; but in the spirit he speaks mysteries.

If, then, I know not the meaning of the voice, I will be to him who is speaking a barbarian; and he that is speaking, a barbarian to me.

Else, if you are blessing with the spirit, how will he who fills the place of the unlearned say the "Amen" at your giving of thanks, since he knows not what you say?

For you, verily, give thanks well, but the other is not edified.

Brethren, do not be children in mind; yet in evil be babes, but in mind be full-grown.

In the law it has been written, "With other tongues, and with lips of others, I will speak to this people; and not even thus will they listen to Me," saith the Lord.

Therefore, the tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe, but to the unbelieving; but prophecy is a sign, not to the unbelieving, but to those who believe.

If, therefore, the whole assembly comes together, and all are speaking with tongues, and there come in those who are unlearned or unbelieving, will they not say that ye are mad?

for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints.

Let the wives keep silence in the assemblies; for it is not permitted them to speak, but let them be in subjection, as also says the law.

So then, my brethren, desire earnestly to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.

For I am the least of the apostles, who am not fit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.

But by God's grace I am what I am; and His grace which was bestowed upon me did not prove vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

and, if Christ hath not been raised, then is our preaching vain, and vain is your faith;

and we are found also false witnesses of God, because we testified in respect to God that He raised up the Christ, Whom He raised not, if so be that the dead are not raised.

For, if the dead are not raised, neither hath Christ been raised;

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

Else what will those do who are immersed for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are they even immersed for them?

If in human fashion I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what is the profit to me? If the dead rise not; "Let us eat and drink; for to-morrow we die."

Be not deceived; evil companionships corrupt good morals.

Awake to soberness righteously, and sin not; for some have not a knowledge of God: I say it to your shame!

Foolish one! that which you sow is not made alive, except it die;

and that which you sow, you sow not the body that shall be, but a bare grain, it may be of wheat, or of some other kind;

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

And the spiritual is not first, but the natural; then the spiritual.

Behold, I tell you a mystery: we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

Therefore, my beloved brethren, become steadfast, immovable, abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

For I do not wish to see you now in passing; for I hope to remain sometime with you, if the Lord permit.

But concerning Apollos, the brother, I besought him much to come to you with the brethren; and it was not at all his will to come now; but he will come, when he shall have opportunity.

If anyone loves not the Lord, let him be accursed, when the Lord cometh!