for if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit doth pray, and my understanding is unfruitful.

What then is it? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray also with the understanding; I will sing psalms with the spirit, and I will sing psalms also with the understanding;

since, if thou mayest bless with the spirit, he who is filling the place of the unlearned, how shall he say the Amen at thy giving of thanks, since what thou dost say he hath not known?

for thou, indeed, dost give thanks well, but the other is not built up!

so that the tongues are for a sign, not to the believing, but to the unbelieving; and the prophesy is not for the unbelieving, but for the believing,

and if all may prophecy, and any one may come in, an unbeliever or unlearned, he is convicted by all, he is discerned by all,

and so the secrets of his heart become manifest, and so having fallen upon his face, he will bow before God, declaring that God really is among you.

What then is it, brethren? whenever ye may come together, each of you hath a psalm, hath a teaching, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation? let all things be for building up;

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

Your women in the assemblies let them be silent, for it hath not been permitted to them to speak, but to be subject, as also the law saith;

and if they wish to learn anything, at home their own husbands let them question, for it is a shame to women to speak in an assembly.

and if any one is ignorant -- let him be ignorant;

And last of all -- as to the untimely birth -- he appeared also to me,

and by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace that is towards me came not in vain, but more abundantly than they all did I labour, yet not I, but the grace of God that is with me;

And if Christ is preached, that out of the dead he hath risen, how say certain among you, that there is no rising again of dead persons?

and if Christ hath not risen, then void is our preaching, and void also your faith,

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

for since through man is the death, also through man is a rising again of the dead,

for even as in Adam all die, so also in the Christ all shall be made alive,

the last enemy is done away -- death;

for all things He did put under his feet, and, when one may say that all things have been subjected, it is evident that He is excepted who did subject the all things to him,

if after the manner of a man with wild beasts I fought in Ephesus, what the advantage to me if the dead do not rise? let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die!

awake up, as is right, and sin not; for certain have an ignorance of God; for shame to you I say it.

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

and God doth give to it a body according as He willed, and to each of the seeds its proper body.

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

and there are heavenly bodies, and earthly bodies; but one is the glory of the heavenly, and another that of the earthly;

So also is the rising again of the dead: it is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption;

it is sown in dishonour, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power;

it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body; there is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body;

so also it hath been written, 'The first man Adam became a living creature,' the last Adam is for a life-giving spirit,

but that which is spiritual is not first, but that which was natural, afterwards that which is spiritual.

The first man is out of the earth, earthy; the second man is the Lord out of heaven;

as is the earthy, such are also the earthy; and as is the heavenly, such are also the heavenly;

and, according as we did bear the image of the earthy, we shall bear also the image of the heavenly.

And this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood the reign of God is not able to inherit, nor doth the corruption inherit the incorruption;

and the sting of the death is the sin, and the power of the sin the law;

and to God -- thanks, to Him who is giving us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ;

so that, my brethren beloved, become ye stedfast, unmovable, abounding in the work of the Lord at all times, knowing that your labour is not vain in the Lord.

And concerning the collection that is for the saints, as I directed to the assemblies of Galatia, so also ye -- do ye;

And if Timotheus may come, see that he may become without fear with you, for the work of the Lord he doth work, even as I,

And I entreat you, brethren, ye have known the household of Stephanas, that it is the first-fruit of Achaia, and to the ministration to the saints they did set themselves --

that ye also be subject to such, and to every one who is working with us and labouring;

Salute you do the assemblies of Asia; salute you much in the Lord do Aquilas and Priscilla, with the assembly in their house;

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ is with you;

my love is with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, through the will of God, and Timotheus the brother, to the assembly of God that is in Corinth, with all the saints who are in all Achaia:

Blessed is God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the mercies, and God of all comfort,

who is comforting us in all our tribulation, for our being able to comfort those in any tribulation through the comfort with which we are comforted ourselves by God;

because, as the sufferings of the Christ do abound to us, so through the Christ doth abound also our comfort;

and whether we be in tribulation, it is for your comfort and salvation, that is wrought in the enduring of the same sufferings that we also suffer; whether we are comforted, it is for your comfort and salvation;

and our hope is stedfast for you, knowing that even as ye are partakers of the sufferings -- so also of the comfort.

For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of our tribulation that happened to us in Asia, that we were exceedingly burdened above our power, so that we despaired even of life;

but we ourselves in ourselves the sentence of the death have had, that we may not be trusting on ourselves, but on God, who is raising the dead,

who out of so great a death did deliver us, and doth deliver, in whom we have hoped that even yet He will deliver;

ye working together also for us by your supplication, that the gift through many persons to us, through many may be thankfully acknowledged for us.

For our glorying is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we did conduct ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you;

according as also ye did acknowledge us in part, that your glory we are, even as also ye are ours, in the day of the Lord Jesus;

This, therefore, counselling, did I then use the lightness; or the things that I counsel, according to the flesh do I counsel, that it may be with me Yes, yes, and No, no?

and God is faithful, that our word unto you became not Yes and No,

for the Son of God, Jesus Christ, among you through us having been preached -- through me and Silvanus and Timotheus -- did not become Yes and No, but in him it hath become Yes;

for as many as are promises of God, in him are the Yes, and in him the Amen, for glory to God through us;

and He who is confirming you with us into Christ, and did anoint us, is God,

who also sealed us, and gave the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

for if I make you sorry, then who is he who is making me glad, except he who is made sorry by me?

and I wrote to you this same thing, that having come, I may not have sorrow from them of whom it behoved me to have joy, having confidence in you all, that my joy is of you all,

sufficient to such a one is this punishment, that is by the more part,

so that, on the contrary, it is rather for you to forgive and to comfort, lest by over abundant sorrow such a one may be swallowed up;

and to God are thanks, who at all times is leading us in triumph in the Christ, and the fragrance of His knowledge He is manifesting through us in every place,

to the one, indeed, a fragrance of death to death, and to the other, a fragrance of life to life; and for these things who is sufficient?

for we are not as the many, adulterating the word of God, but as of sincerity -- but as of God; in the presence of God, in Christ we do speak.

Do we begin again to recommend ourselves, except we need, as some, letters of recommendation unto you, or from you?

manifested that ye are a letter of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not in the tablets of stone, but in fleshy tablets of the heart,

not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything, as of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God,

who also made us sufficient to be ministrants of a new covenant, not of letter, but of spirit; for the letter doth kill, and the spirit doth make alive.

for if the ministration of the condemnation is glory, much more doth the ministration of the righteousness abound in glory;

for if that which is being made useless is through glory, much more that which is remaining is in glory.

Having, then, such hope, we use much freedom of speech,

and are not as Moses, who was putting a vail upon his own face, for the sons of Israel not stedfastly to look to the end of that which is being made useless,

but their minds were hardened, for unto this day the same vail at the reading of the Old Covenant doth remain unwithdrawn -- which in Christ is being made useless --

but till to-day, when Moses is read, a vail upon their heart doth lie,

and whenever they may turn unto the Lord, the vail is taken away.

And the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty;