Now I wish that all of you spoke in unknown tongues, but even more [I wish] that you would prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater [and more useful] than the one who speaks in tongues, unless he translates or explains [what he says], so that the church may be edified [instructed, improved, strengthened].

But as it is brothers, if I come back to you and speak ecstatically, what good will I do you, unless I have some revelation or special knowledge or message or teaching to give you?

Likewise, the inanimate things which produce a sound, whether flute or lyre, if they do not produce a distinction in the tones, how will it be known what is played on the flute or on the lyre?

If the bugle does not sound a clear call, who will prepare for battle?

So if you in your ecstatic speaking utter words no one can understand, how will people know what you are saying? You will be talking to the empty air!

There are, we will suppose, a great number of languages in the world, and no creature is without a language.

So if I do not know the meaning of the language, I shall seem to the man who is speaking to be a foreigner, and he will seem to me to be one too.

So since you are ambitious for spiritual endowments, you must try to excel in them in ways that will do good to the church.

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 otherwise, if you praise in [your] spirit, how will the one who fills the place of the outsider say the "amen" at your thanksgiving, because he does not know what you are saying?

But in the church, I will to speak five words by my mind, that I might also sound. in the ears of others, than ten thousand words in a tongue.

In the law it is written, "With other tongues, and with other lips will I speak unto this people, and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord."

Therefore, [unknown] tongues are [meant] for a [supernatural] sign, not to believers but to unbelievers [who might be receptive]; while prophecy [foretelling the future, speaking a new message from God to the people] is not for unbelievers but for believers.

If therefore when all the congregation is come together, and all speak with tongues, there come in they that are unlearned, or they which believe not: will they not say that ye are out of your wits?

But if everyone is prophesying, when an unbeliever or an uneducated person comes in he will be convicted and examined by everything that's happening.

the secrets of his heart are exposed, and he will fall down on his face and worship God, and declare that God is really among you.

For [in this way] you can all prophesy one by one, so that everyone may be instructed and everyone may be encouraged;

for the spirits of prophets will give way to prophets,

If they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is a shame for women to speak in the congregation.

If anyone thinks and claims that he is a prophet [a true spokesman for God] or spiritually astute [filled with and energized by the Holy Spirit], let him recognize that the things which I write to you are the Lord’s commandment.

But if any will be ignorant, let him be ignorant.

Therefore, believers, desire earnestly to prophesy [to foretell the future, to speak a new message from God to the people], and do not forbid speaking in unknown tongues.

by which also you will be saved, if you so retain it as I preached it to you, unless you have believed without sufficient grounds.

Now if it is preached that Christ was raised from the dead, how can some people among you say that people will not be raised from the dead?

for since by man came death, by man the resurrection of the dead will likewise come.

For just as because of their relation to Adam all men die, so because of their relation to Christ they will all be brought to life again.

However, this will happen to each person in the proper order: first the Messiah, then those who belong to the Messiah when he comes.

After that will come the end, when he will turn over the kingdom to God his Father, bringing to an end all other government, authority, and power,

For his rule will go on till he has put all those who are against him under his feet.

The last enemy to be overthrown will be death,

for He will have put all things in subjection under His feet. And when He shall have declared that "All things are in subjection," it will be with the manifest exception of Him who has reduced them all to subjection to Him.

And when everything is reduced to subjection to him, then the Son himself will also become subject to him who has reduced everything to subjection to him, so that God may be everything to everyone.

Otherwise, what will those people do who are being baptized because of those who have died? If the dead are not raised at all, why are they being baptized because of them?

From the human point of view, what good is it to me that I have fought wild animals here in Ephesus? If the dead do not rise at all, "Let us eat and drink, for we will be dead tomorrow!"

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

Fool! What you sow will not come to life unless it dies.

and what you plant is not the form that it will be, but a bare kernel, whether it is wheat or something else.

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

it is sown in dishonour, it will be raised in glory: it is sown in decay, it will be raised in power:

it is sown an animal body, it will rise a spiritual body. there is an animal body, and there is a spiritual body.

Just as we have borne the likeness of the man who was made from dust, we will also bear the likeness of the man from heaven.

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.

I will tell you a secret. We shall not all fall asleep, but we shall all be changed,

in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the sound of the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised free from decay, and we shall be changed.

For this body which comes to destruction will be made free from the power of death, and the man who is under the power of death will put on eternal life.

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

therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye inflexibly steady, and continually surpass others in the work of the Lord, knowing that he will not leave your christian labour unrewarded.

On the first of every week each of you is to put aside and store up whatever he gains, so that money will not have to be collected after I come.

When I am come, whosoever ye shall allow by your letters, them will I send to bring your liberality unto Jerusalem.

And if it is worthwhile for me to go also, they will travel with me.

I will come unto you after I have gone over Macedonia. For I will go throughout Macedonia.

With you peradventure I will abide a while: or else winter, that ye may bring me on my way whithersoever I go.

I will not see you now in my passage: but I trust to abide a while with you, if God shall suffer me.

I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost:

To speak of brother Apollos: I greatly desired him to come unto you with the brethren, but his mind was not at all to come at this time. Howbeit, he will come when he shall have convenient time.

For they cheered me up, as they have cheered [or, will cheer] you up [also]. [Note: How these three men did this for Paul and the Corinthians is not known]. You should give recognition to such men.

If anyone does not love the Lord [does not obey and respect and believe in Jesus Christ and His message], he is to be accursed. Maranatha (O our Lord, come)!