The eye cannot say to the hand, "I do not need you," or the head to the feet, "I do not need you."

I want you all to speak ecstatically, but I especially want you to be inspired to preach. The man who is inspired to preach is more useful than the one who speaks ecstatically??nless he can explain what he says so that it may do the church some good.

Therefore, the man who can speak ecstatically should pray for the power to explain what he says.

For if you utter blessings in ecstatic speech, how is an ordinary man to say Amen to your thanksgiving? For he does not know what you are saying.

But in public worship I would rather say five words with my understanding so as to instruct others also than ten thousand words in an ecstasy.

In the Law it says, "By men of strange languages and by the lips of foreigners I will speak to this nation, and not even then will they listen to me, says the Lord."

Hence, if the whole church assembles and they all speak ecstatically, and ordinary people or unbelievers come in, will they not say that you are crazy?

If there is any ecstatic speaking, let it be limited to two or three people at the most, and have one speak at a time and someone explain what he says.

Women are to keep quiet in church, for they are not allowed to speak. They must take a subordinate place, just as the Law says.

Now if what we preach about Christ is that he was raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead?

for everything is to be reduced to subjection and put under Christ's feet. But when it says that everything is subject to him, he is evidently excepted who reduced it all to subjection to him.

Return to your sober sense as you ought, and stop sinning, for some of you are utterly ignorant about God. To your shame I say so.

But someone will say, "How can the dead rise? What kind of a body will they have when they come back?"

This is also what the Scripture says: "The first man Adam became a living creature." The last Adam has become a life-giving Spirit.

And when this mortal nature puts on immortality, then what the Scripture says will come true??Death has been triumphantly destroyed.

Was it vacillating of me to want to do that? Do I make my plans like a worldly man, ready to say "Yes" and "No" in the same breath?

For if I was out of my senses, as they say, it was between God and me; and if I am in my right mind, it is for your good.

For he says, "I have listened to you at a welcome time, And helped you on a day of deliverance!" Now the welcome time has come! This is the day of deliverance!

Therefore, "Come out from them, And separate from them, says the Lord, And touch nothing that is unclean. Then I will welcome you,

I will become a father to you, And you shall become my sons and daughters, Says the Lord Almighty."

but to equalize the burden, and in the present situation to have your plenty make up for what they need, so that some day their plenty may make up for what you need, and so things may be made equal??15 as the Scripture says, "The man who got much did not have too much, and the man who got little did not have too little."

for if some people from Macedonia come with me, and find that you are not ready, it will humiliate me??o say nothing of you??or having expressed such confidence.

as the Scripture says, "He scatters his gifts to the poor; His uprightness will never be forgotten."

For they say, "His letters are impressive and telling, but his personal appearance is insignificant and as a speaker he amounts to nothing."

Such people had better understand that when I arrive and take action I will do just as I say I will in my letters when I am far away.

When I boast in this reckless way, I do not say what I am saying for the Lord, but as a fool would talk.

But granting that I did not burden you myself, I was clever about it, you say, and took you in by a trick.

they only heard people say, "The man who once persecuted us is now preaching the good news of the faith he tried to destroy,"

For there is a curse upon all who rely on obedience to the Law, for the Scripture says, "Cursed be anyone who does not stand by everything that is written in the Book of the Law and obey it."

Christ ransomed us from the Law's curse by taking our curse upon himself (for the Scripture says, "Cursed be anyone who is hung on a tree")

Now the promises were made to Abraham and his line. It does not say, "and to your lines," in the plural, but in the singular, "and to your line," that is, Christ.

For the Scripture says that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave-girl, and one by the free woman.

For the Scripture says, "Rejoice, childless woman, who bear no children, Break into shouting, you who have no birth pains! For the desolate woman has more children than the married one!"

Yet what does the Scripture say? "Drive the slave-girl and her son away, for the slave-girl's son shall not share the inheritance with the son of the free woman."

So it says, "When he went up on high, he led a host of captives, And gave gifts to mankind."

Whatever anyone may say in the way of worthless arguments to deceive you, these are the things that are bringing God's anger down upon the disobedient.

So it says, "Wake up, sleeper! Rise from the dead, And Christ will dawn upon you!"

Goodbye, and the Lord be with you always. Again I say, goodbye.

And whatever you have to say or do, do it all as followers of the Lord Jesus, and offer your thanksgiving to God the Father through him.

When people say, "What peace and security!" then suddenly destruction will be upon them, like birth-pains upon a woman about to give birth to a child, and there will be no escape.

encourage you and strengthen you to do and say everything that is right.

The Spirit distinctly says that in later times some will turn away from the faith, and devote their attention to deceitful spirits and the things that demons teach

For the Scripture says, "You must not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain," and the workman deserves his wages.

Think over what I say. For the Lord will help you to understand it perfectly.

who have missed the truth and say that the resurrection has taken place already, thus undermining people's faith.

and present a wholesome, unobjectionable message, so that your opponent may be put to shame at finding nothing bad to say about us.

For to what angel did God ever say, "You are my Son! I have today become your Father"? Or again, "I will become his Father, and he shall become my Son"?

But of the time when he is to bring his firstborn Son back to the world he says, "And let all God's angels bow before him."

In speaking of the angels he says, "He who changes his angels into winds, And his attendants into blazing fire!"

But of the Son he says, "God is your throne forever and ever! And a righteous scepter is the scepter of his kingdom!

But to what angel did he ever say, 'Sit at my right hand, Until I make your enemies a footstool for you"?

and say, "I will tell your name to my brothers, In the midst of the congregation I will sing your praise";

Now the faithfulness of Moses in all the house of God was that of a servant, in faithfully repeating what he was told to say;

Therefore, as the holy Spirit says, "If you hear his voice today,

for he says somewhere of the seventh day, "On the seventh day God rested after all his work,"

while here he says again, "They shall never be admitted to my Rest!"

For he says in another passage, "You are a priest forever of the priesthood of Melchizedek."

I have much to say to you about this, but it is difficult to make it clear to you, because you have become so slow of apprehension.

But about you, dear friends, even though we say this, we are sure of better things that promise salvation.

But in his dissatisfaction with them he says, " 'See! the time is coming,' says the Lord, 'When I will conclude a new agreement with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah,

Not like the one that I made with their forefathers, On the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out from the land of Egypt, For they would not abide by their agreement with me, So I paid no attention to them,' says the Lord.

'For this is the agreement that I will make with the house of Israel, In those later days,' says the Lord; 'I will put my laws into their minds, And write them on their hearts, And they will have me for their God, And I will have them for my people.

So I said, 'See, I have come! as the Book of the Law says of me, O God, to do your will!' "

At first he says, "You never wished or cared for sacrifices or offerings, or burnt-offerings or sacrifices for sin"??ll of which the Law prescribes??9 and then he adds, "See, I have come to do your will!" He is taking away the old to put the new in its place.

" 'This is the agreement that I will make with them In those later days,' says the Lord, 'I will put my laws into their minds, And write them upon their hearts,' " he goes on,

So that we can confidently say, "The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can men do to me?"

and you pay attention to the man in the fine clothes and say to him, "Sit here; this is a good place!" and say to the poor man, "Stand up, or sit on the floor at my feet,"

If you really obey the supreme law where the Scripture says, "You must love your neighbor as you do yourself," you are doing right,

and one of you says to them, "Goodbye, keep warm and have plenty to eat," without giving them the necessaries of life, what good does it do?

But someone may say, "You have faith, and I good deeds." Show me your faith without any good deeds, and I will show you my faith by my good deeds.

and so the Scripture came true that says, "Abraham had faith in God, and it was credited to him as uprightness, and he was called God's friend."

For we all make many mistakes. Anyone who never makes a mistake in what he says has a character that is fully developed and is able to control his whole body as well.

Do you suppose the Scripture means nothing when it says, "He yearns jealously over the Spirit he has put in our hearts?"

But he gives all the greater blessing. As the Scripture says, "God opposes haughty persons, but he blesses humble-minded ones."

Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we are going to such and such a town, to stay a year and go into business and make money,"

for the Scripture says, "You must be holy, Because I am holy."

For it says in Scripture, "Here I lay a choice stone in Zion, a costly cornerstone; No one who believes in it will ever be disappointed!"

If we say, "We have fellowship with him," and yet live in darkness, we are lying and not living the truth.

If we say, "We are without any sin," we are deceiving ourselves, and there is no truth in our hearts.

If we say, "We have not sinned," we are making him a liar, and his message is not in our hearts.

Whoever says, "I know him," but does not obey his commands, is a liar, and there is no truth in his heart;

whoever says, "I am always in union with him" must live just as he lived.

Whoever says, "I am in the light," and yet hates his brother, is still in darkness.

If anyone says, "I love God," and yet hates his brother, he is a liar; for whoever does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

If anyone sees his brother committing any sin except a deadly one, he will ask and obtain life for him??rovided the sin is not a deadly one. There is such a thing as deadly sin; I do not say that a man should pray about that.

I have written briefly to the church, but Diotrephes who likes to be their leader will not accept what I say.

"I am the Alpha and the Omega." says the Lord God, who is and was and is coming, the Almighty.

say, "Write what you see in a roll and send it to the seven churches??o Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea."

Let everyone who can hear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. I will permit him who is victorious to eat the fruit of the tree of life that stands in the Paradise of God.'

Let everyone who can hear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. He who is victorious will not be hurt by the second death.'

Let everyone who can hear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. I will give him who is victorious some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white pebble with a new name written on it which no one knows except the man who receives it.'

But to the rest of you at Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching and have not learned the "deep things" of Satan, as they call them??o you I say, I have no fresh burden to lay on you,

Let everyone who can hear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches.'

Let everyone who can hear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches.'

Let everyone who can hear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches.'

Because you say, "I am rich, I have become wealthy, I need nothing," and you do not know that it is you that are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked,

Let everyone who can hear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches.' "

The four animals have each of them six wings, and they are covered with eyes all over and underneath their wings. And day and night they never cease to say, "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and is and is coming."

the twenty-four elders fall down before him who is seated on the throne, and worship him who lives forever and ever, and they throw down their crowns before the throne, and say,

Then I heard every creature in heaven, on earth, underneath the earth, and on the sea, and all that they contain, say, "Blessing, honor, glory, and power to him who is seated on the throne and to the Lamb forever and ever!"