And though I give all my substance to feed the poor, and my body to be burnt, and have not charity, I am nothing profited.

Charity never faileth: but as to prophecies, they shall be abolished; or tongues, they shall cease; or knowledge, it shall be laid aside.

But when that which is perfect shall come, then that which is defective shall be laid aside.

Labour after charity, and be desirous of spiritual gifts: but especially that ye may prophesy.

As inanimate things which give a found, whether pipe or harp, unless they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall what is piped or harped be understood?

So also unless ye utter by the tongue intelligible words, how shall what is spoken be understood? for thus ye will be only talking to the wind.

There are, it may be, as many kinds of voices in the world as people, and none of them insignificant.

But if I know not the force of the words, I shall be to him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh will be a barbarian to me.

What is then to be done? I will pray with the Spirit, but I will pray to be understood: I will sing with the spirit, but I will sing to be understood.

But in a public assembly I had rather speak five words to be understood, that I may instruct others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.

My brethren, be not children in sense: but in malice be infants, and in your judgements shew yourselves to be men.

It is written in the law, "By men of another language, and by other lips, will I speak to this people, and even so they will not listen to me, saith the Lord."

If then the whole church be come together and all speak in unknown tongues, and there come in illiterate persons, or infidels, will they not say that ye are mad?

But if all prophesy, and there come in an unbeliever, or one unlearned, he is convinced by all, he is judged by all.

What is then to be done, my brethren? when ye come together, if any of you hath a psalm, a doctrine, a tongue, a revelation, an interpretation,---let all be done for edification.

And if any one speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at most by three, and that by turns; and let one interpret.

But if there be no interpreter, let him be silent in the assembly; and let him speak to himself and to God.

And if any thing be revealed to another sitting by, let the first have done speaking before the other begins.

For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.

Let your women be silent in your assemblies: for it is not permitted to them to speak, but they are to be in subjection, as the law saith.

If any one seem to be a prophet, or acted by the Spirit, let him acknowlege that what I write to you are the commandments of the Lord.

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

Wherefore, my brethren, be most desirous to prophesy, and yet forbid not to speak with tongues:

but let all things be done decently and in order.

By which also ye are saved, if ye retain it as I preached it to you: unless indeed ye have believed in vain.

And that he was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve:

Afterwards He was seen by James, then by all the apostles.

not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his favor to me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all; yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.

Now if it be preached that Christ is risen from the dead, how say some among you, that there is no resurrection of the dead?

for if there be no resurrection of the dead, then Christ is not risen.

And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.

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

for as by man came death, by man cometh also the resurrection of the dead.

For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.

Then will be the end, when He shall have delivered up the kingdom to God even the Father; when He shall have abolished all rule, and all authority, and power.

And when all things shall be subjected to Him, then shall the Son also himself be subject to Him, that put all things under Him, that God may be all in all.

I protest by your rejoicing, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, that I am even dying daily.

Be not deceived, bad conversations corrupt good morals.

And as to what thou sowest, thou sowest not the very body that shall be produced, but a bare grain, it may be, of wheat, or any other corn:

So also will be the resurrection of the dead. Our body is sown in corruption, it is raised incorruptible: it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory:

Behold, I tell you a mystery: we shall not all sleep; 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 shall sound) and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed:

for this corruptible body must put on incorruption, and this mortal body must be clothed with immortality.

And when this corruptible shall be clothed with incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall come to pass the word that is written, "Death is swallowed up in victory."

but thanks be to God, who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, since ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Upon the first day of the week let every one of you set apart something, putting it into the treasury, according as he is prospered: that there may be no need of collections, when I come.

And if it be requisite for me to go also, they shall go with me.

If Timothy should come, see that he be with you without fear: for he is employed in the work of the Lord, as I also am.

Be watchful, stand fast in the faith, behave like men, be strong:

and let all your affairs be carried on in love.

have set themselves to minister to the saints) that you also would be subservient to such, and to every one that worketh and laboureth with us.

If any one love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be made a curse.

Maran-atha. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.

Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the church of God which is at Corinth, and all the saints that are in Achaia:

grace be to you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and God of all consolation; who comforteth us in all our affliction,

that we may be able to comfort those, that are in any trouble, by the consolation wherewith we ourselves are comforted by God.

For as the sufferings for the sake of Christ abound on us, so our consolation by Christ doth also abound.

And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is wrought out by the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or if we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.

you also assisting by prayer for us, that the favor obtained for us by the prayers of many might be thankfully acknowledged by many on our account.

For this is our rejoicing, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and pious sincerity, not with carnal wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and especially towards you.

And in this confidence I had a mind to come to you first, (that ye might have a second benefit,) and to pass by you into Macedonia;

and then to come to you again from Macedonia, and by you to be forwarded on my way to Judea.

Now when I intended this, was I chargeable with levity? or what I purpose, do I purpose from carnal motives, that with me there should be yea, yea, and then no, no?

For Jesus Christ the Son of God, who was preached among you by us, even by me, and Silvanus, and Timothy, was not yea and nay,

but was yea in Him, (for all the promises of God are in Him yea, and in Him amen,) to the glory of God by us:

not that we are lords over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand.

for if I grieve you, who is it that maketh me glad, but he that is grieved by me?

For through much affliction and distress of heart I wrote to you with many tears; not that ye might be grieved, but that ye might know the love with which I abound towards you.

all) though sufficient to such a one is the censure passed on him by many.

So that on the contrary, ye ought rather to forgive and comfort him, least such a one should be swallowed up with excessive sorrow.

And to whom ye forgive any thing, I also forgive it: for if I have forgiven any thing, I forgave it him, to whom I did forgive it, for your sakes, in the person of Christ; that we might not be foiled by Satan:

But thanks be to God, who always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and spreadeth the odor of his knowledge by us in every place.

Ye are our epistle, inscribed on our hearts, known and read by all men:

being manifest that ye are the epistle of Christ, through our ministration, written not with ink, but by the Spirit of the living God; not on tables of stone, but on tables of the heart of flesh.

Who hath also fitted us to be ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life.

Now if the ministration of death which was in writing, and engraven on stones, was so glorious that the children of Israel could not look stedfastly on the face of Moses, because of the lustre of his countenance, which was to be taken away:

shall not the ministration of the Spirit be more glorious?

For if that, which was to be taken away, came with glory, much more that which abideth is glorious.

and do not as Moses, who put a veil upon his face, intimating that the children of Israel could not look to the end of that which was to be abolished; but their minds were blinded:

but have rejected shameful disguises, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth, recommending ourselves to every man's conscience, in the sight of God.

And if our gospel also be veiled, it is to those that perish;

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power might be evidently of God, and not of us:

cast down, but not destroyed; always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be manifested in our body.

For we, who are yet living, are always exposed to death for the sake of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

knowing that He, who raised up the Lord Jesus, will raise up us also by Jesus, and present us with you.

And therefore whilst we are in this tabernacle we groan, being very desirous to be covered with our house which is from heaven: since though unclothed of this body,

yet we shall not be found naked.

For we who are in this tabernacle do groan, being burthened; wherefore we desire, not to be wholly unclothed, but to put on immortality, that the mortal part may be swallowed up in life.

(for we walk by faith, not by sight,) we are confident, I say,

and well-pleased rather to be absent from the body, and to dwell with the Lord.

Wherefore we are also ambitious, whether dwelling in the body, or out of it, to be well-pleasing to Him.

For whether we be in extasies, it is to God: or if we be composed, it is for your benefit.

And therefore if any one be in Christ, he is created anew: old things are passed away, behold all things are become new.

But all these things are from God, who hath reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ, and made us ministers of the reconciliation;

We are therefore ambassadors for Christ, and as God exhorteth you by us, we intreat you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.

For He hath made Him, who knew no sin, to be a sin-offering for us, that in Him we might be made righteous before God.