So that no one can say that you were baptized into my Faith.

For no man can lay any other foundation than the one already laid-Jesus Christ.

Can it be that, when one of you has a dispute with another, he dares to have his case tried before the heathen, instead of before Christ's People?

Can it be that there is not one man among you wise enough to decide between two of his Brothers?

How can you tell, wife, whether you may not save your husband? and how can you tell, husband, whether you may not save your wife?

If I tell the Good News, I have nothing to boast of, for I can but do so. Woe is me if I do not tell it!

Have you no houses in which you can eat and drink? Or are you trying to show your contempt for the Church of God, and to humiliate the poor? What can I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this matter I cannot praise you.

Therefore I tell you plainly that no one who speaks under the influence of the Spirit of God says 'JESUS IS ACCURSED,' and that no one can say 'JESUS IS LORD,' except under the influence of the Holy Spirit.

Can every one be an Apostle? can every one be a Preacher? can every one be a Teacher? can every one have supernatural powers?

Can every one have power to cure diseases? can every one speak in 'tongues'? can every one interpret them?

Strive for the greater gifts. Yet I can still show you a way beyond all comparison the best.

Even with inanimate things, such as a flute or a harp, though they produce sounds, yet unless the notes are quite distinct, how can the tune played on the flute or the harp be recognized?

And so with you; unless, in using the gift of 'tongues,' you utter intelligible words, how can what you say be understood? You will be speaking to the winds!

If you bless God with your spirit only, how can the man in the congregation who is without your gift say 'Amen' to your thanksgiving? He does not know what you are saying!

For you can all preach in turn, so that all may learn some lesson and all receive encouragement.

This I say, Brothers-Flesh and blood can have no share in the Kingdom of God, nor can the perishable share the imperishable.

On the first day of every week each of you should put by what he can afford, so that no collections need be made after I have come.