In the law it is written, "That with other tongues, and with other lips, will I speak to this people: and even thus will they not attend to me, saith the Lord."

Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to those that believe, but to those who do not believe: but the gift of prophecy is not for those who are infidels, but for believers.

But if all prophesy, and any infidel or illiterate person come in, he receives conviction from all, he is judged of all:

and thus the secrets of his heart are made manifest; and so falling down on his face, he will worship God, declaring that God verily is among you.

For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all the churches of his saints.

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

But if they will learn any thing, let them ask their own husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.

If any man thinketh that he is a prophet, or spiritually gifted, let him acknowledge that the things which I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.

And last of all he was seen also by me, who am but as an abortion.

But if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you, that there is no resurrection of the dead?

But if there is no resurrection of the dead, neither is Christ risen:

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

For if the dead are not raised, neither is Christ risen:

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

But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first-fruit of those who have fallen asleep.

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

For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith, that all things are put under him, it is evident that there is an exception of him, who subjected all things to him.

Awake as the righteous, and sin not; for some have an ignorance of God: I speak this to your shame.

Thou fool! what thou sowest is not quickened except it die:

but God giveth it a body as he pleaseth, and to each of the seeds its peculiar body.

All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, and another flesh of cattle, and another of fishes, and another of birds.

Also there are celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and that of the terrestrial another.

There is one glory of the sun; and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for star differeth from star in glory.

So also is the resurrection 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 an animal body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is an animal body, and there is a spiritual body.

And so it is written, There was a first man Adam a living soul; a last Adam a quickening spirit.

But that which is spiritual was not first, but that which is animal; and afterward that which is spiritual.

As is the earthly, so are they also that are earthly: and as is the heavenly, such also are they that are heavenly.

And as we have borne the image of the earthly, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

For that which is corruptible must put on incorruption, and that which is mortal must put on immortality.

So when that which is corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and that which is mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying which is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?

The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.

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, knowing that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

NOW concerning the collection which is for the saints, as I have given an order to the churches of Galatia, so also do ye.

for there is opened to me a great door, and effectual, and there are many adversaries.

But if Timothy come, see that he may be among you without fear: for he worketh the Lord's work, as I also do.

As concerning brother Apollos, I besought him much that he would come to you with the brethren; but it was not at all his wish to come at this time: but he will come when he can find a good opportunity.

Now I exhort you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first fruits of Achaia, and they have devoted themselves to the ministry of the saints:)

wherefore submit yourselves to such, and to every one that worketh with us and laboureth.

The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord, with the church which is in their house.

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

who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we might be able to comfort those who are in all tribulation, by the consolation with which we ourselves are comforted of God.

Because as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so through Christ aboundeth also our consolation.

But whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectually wrought by patient endurance of the same sufferings which we also suffer; or if we are comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.

And our hope of you is sure, knowing that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so also of the consolation.

For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, of the tribulation which came to us in Asia, that above measure we have been burdened beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life:

Who from so imminent a prospect of death hath delivered us, and still delivers: in whom we trust also that he will yet deliver us:

ye also labouring together for us in prayer, that from many persons thanks may be given on our behalf for the gifts bestowed on us by many.

For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with carnal wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and peculiarly towards you.

As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your glory, as also ye are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.

But as sure as God is true, our word to you was not yea and nay.

For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us??y me and Silvanus and Timotheus??as not yea and nay, but there was yea in him;

for all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, to the glory of God by us.

Now he that confirmeth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God;

who also hath put his seal upon us, and given us the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

But I appeal to God as a witness unto my soul, that to spare you I have not yet come to Corinth:

For if I make you sorry, who is he that maketh me glad, but he that is made sorrowful by me?

And I have written unto you for this very purpose, that I might not, when I come to you, have sorrow from those in whom I ought to rejoice, having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

Sufficient for such person is that chastisement which hath been inflicted by the majority of you.

that no advantage be gained over us by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his devices.

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

To the one we are the odour of death unto death, to the other the odour of life unto life: and who is sufficient for these things?

For we are not as the many, adulterating the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, speak we in Christ.

DO we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some, commendatory letters to you, or commendatory letters from you?

not that we are sufficient of ourselves to account any thing of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God.

Who hath made us also able ministers of the new testament, not of the letter but of the spirit; for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

For if the ministry of condemnation is glory, much more doth the ministry of righteousness excel in glory.

For if that which was abolished came in a glorious manner, much more is that which remaineth glorious.

Having therefore such a hope, we use much freedom of speech.

And [act] not as Moses who spread a veil over his face, in order that the children of Israel might not look stedfastly to the end of that which should be abolished.

But their understandings were darkened: for unto this day the same veil in their reading the old testament abideth unremoved; which veil is taken away by Christ.

For unto this day, when Moses is read, the veil is spread over their hearts.