However, I should like for everyone to be just as I am myself, yet each of us has his own special gift from God, one for one way, another for another.

To the Jews I have become like a Jew for the winning of Jews; to men under the law, like one under the law, though I am not under the law myself, to win the men under the law;

to men who have no written law, like one without any law, though I am not without God's law but specially under Christ's law, to win the men who have no written law.

So that is the way I run, with no uncertainty as to winning. That is the way I box, not like one that punches the air.

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I laid aside my childish ways.

I would like for all of you to speak in ecstasy, but I would rather that you prophesy. The man who speaks with real prophetic insight renders greater service than the man who speaks in ecstasy, unless the latter explains it, so the congregation may receive an uplift.

Even inanimate things, like the flute or the harp, may give out sounds, but if there is no difference in the notes, how can the tune that is played on the flute or the harp be told?

It is just like this with the resurrection of the dead.

Now those who are made of the dust are just like him who was first made of dust, and those who are heavenly are like Him who is from heaven,

Be always on your guard; stand firm in your faith; keep on acting like men; continue to grow in strength;

I beg you to put yourselves under leaders like these, and under anyone who cooperates with you, and labors hard.