If the whole body were an eye, what part would do the hearing? If the whole were an ear, what part would exercise the sense of smell?

If they all made up one member, what would become of the body?

what we think to be less honourable, is loaded with additional ornaments, and the less graceful have adventitious finery,

Is everyone able to cure the sick? Can everyone speak ecstatically? Can everyone explain what it means?

[Note: The following traits should be understood in the context of love for people]. Love is patient [with people], and is kind [to them]; love does not envy [what people are or have]; love does not boast [of being superior to others], it is not arrogant [in dealing with people].

does not behave in an unseemly manner, does not seek what is its own, is not quickly provoked, does not impute evil,

It takes no pleasure in wrongdoing, but has joy in what is true;

it excuses all things, believes what is favourable, hopes for the best, and suffers the worst.

For what we know is incomplete and what we prophesy is incomplete.

But when perfection comes, what is imperfect will pass away.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I reasoned as a child; when I became a man, I had done with what belonged to the child.

For now we see a dim reflection in a looking-glass. But then we shall see face to face; Now what I know is imperfect, but then I shall know perfectly, as God knows me.

For he who makes use of tongues is not talking to men but to God; because no one has the sense of what he is saying; but in the Spirit he is talking of secret things.

I want you all to speak ecstatically, but I especially want you to be inspired to preach. The man who is inspired to preach is more useful than the one who speaks ecstatically??nless he can explain what he says so that it may do the church some good.

Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues: what shall I profit you? Except I speak to you, either by revelation, or knowledge, or prophesying, or doctrine.

Moreover when things without life give sound: whether it be a pipe, or a harp - except they make a distinction in the sounds - how shall it be known what is piped or harped?

Or, for example, if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, what soldier will be prepared for battle?

Even so, likewise, when ye speak with tongues, except ye speak words that have signification, how shall it be understood what is spoken? For ye shall but speak in the air.

If I know not what the voice meaneth, I shall be unto him that speaketh an alien: and he that speaketh shall be an alien unto me.

Therefore, the man who can speak ecstatically should pray for the power to explain what he says.

For if I pray in a language [supernaturally], [it is] my spirit that is praying, but my mind does not understand [what I am saying]. [Note: Here Paul raises an objection to the use of a language without the person knowing what he is saying].

What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and will pray with the mind also. I will sing with the spirit, and will sing with the mind also.

For else when thou blessest with the spirit, how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned say "amen" at thy giving of thanks? Seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest?

Then what is the right course, brothers? When you meet together, suppose every one of you has a song, a teaching, a revelation, an ecstatic utterance, or an explanation of one; it must all be for the good of all.

If there is any ecstatic speaking, let it be limited to two or three people at the most, and have one speak at a time and someone explain what he says.

If there is no one able to interpret what is said, they should remain silent at the meeting of the Church, and speak to themselves and to God.

And let two or three who are inspired to preach speak, while the rest weigh what is said;

What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you only?

If any man think himself a prophet, either spiritual: let him understand what things I write unto you. For they are the commandments of the Lord.

Now I am going to make clear to you, my brothers, what the good news was which I gave to you, and which you took, and on which your faith is based,

by the which also ye are saved - I do you to know, after what manner I preached unto you - if ye keep it, except ye have believed in vain.

For I passed on to you, among the primary principles of the good news, what I had received, that Christ died for our sins, in accordance with the Scriptures,

But by God's favor I have become what I am, and the favor he showed me has not gone for nothing, but I have worked harder than any of them, although it was not really I but the favor God showed me.

But whether it was I or they, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed.

Now if what we preach about Christ is that he was raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead?

And if Christ has not risen, it follows that what we preach is a delusion, and that your faith also is a delusion.

Either, else what do they which are baptised over the dead, if the dead rise not at all? Why are they then baptised over the dead?

That I have fought with beasts at Ephesus after the manner of men, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not again? "Let us eat and drink, tomorrow we shall die."

Come to your senses; do what is right and stop sinning. Some of you do not know God [i.e., in a personal way]. I am saying this to make you ashamed.

But some man will say, "How shall the dead arise? With what bodies come they in?

unwise! thou -- what thou dost sow is not quickened except it may die;

And what sowest thou? Thou sowest not that body that shall be: but bare corn - I mean either of wheat, or of some other -

But God gives it what body he pleases, and to each kind of seed its own body.

This is how it will be at the resurrection of the dead. What is planted is decaying, what is raised cannot decay.

This is also what the Scripture says: "The first man Adam became a living creature." The last Adam has become a life-giving Spirit.

Nevertheless, it is not what is spiritual that came first, but what is animal; what is spiritual came afterwards.

What the earthy one is, that also are those who are earthy; and what the heavenly One is, that also are those who are heavenly.

But I can tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot share in the Kingdom of God, and decay will not share in what is imperishable.

For what is decaying must be clothed with what cannot decay, and what is dying must be clothed with what cannot die.

And when this mortal nature puts on immortality, then what the Scripture says will come true??Death has been triumphantly destroyed.

As to the collection for God's people, what I have directed the Churches of Galatia to do, you must do also.

After the Sabbath ends, each of you should set aside and save something from your surplus in proportion to what you have, so that no collections will have to be made when I arrive.

And I am glad that Stephanas, Fortunatus, and Achaicus have come to see me, because they have supplied what you lacked.