there are various forms of service, and the same Lord;

But now there are many members, but one body.

that there should be no disunion in the body, but that members mutual care for one another.

Love never fails; but though there are prophecies, they will fail; though there are tongues, they will cease; though there is knowledge, it will be superseded.

There are, let us say, so many languages in the world, and none without its meaning.

Accordingly, when the whole church assemblies, and everybody is speaking "with tongues," if there enter men unlearned or unbelieving, will they not say that you are mad?

But if there is no one to interpret, let them keep silence in the church, and speak to themselves and to God.

But if to one as he sits there some revelation is made, let the first be silent.

If then, we are preaching Christ, that he rose from the dead, how are some of you saying that there is no resurrection from the dead?

But if there is no resurrection from the dead, then not even Christ has been raised;

All flesh is not the same flesh; there is human flesh, another of fishes of animals, another of birds, another of fishes.

There are both celestial bodies and bodies terrestrial; but the splendor of the celestial is one thing, and the splendor of the terrestrial is another.

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

The body sown is animal The body is raised is spiritual. If there is an animal body, there is also a spiritual body.

On the first day of each week let each of you put aside something, keeping it in store as he may prosper, so that when I come there may be no collections going on.

for if I cause you grief, who is there to cause me joy except those whom I have grieved?

(The Lord means the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord abides there is freedom.)

So there is a new creation when any man is in Christ. The old life has passed away, behold, the new is come.

There is no narrowness in my love; but the narrowness is in your own.

So now complete the doing of it also, in order that just as there was the readiness to will, so there may be the accomplishment according to your means.

For if there be first willing mind, the gift is accepted according to what a man has, and not according to what he has not.

Not to mention other things, there is the crowding pressure of each day upon me, the care of all the churches.

It was for this reason, lest I should be over-elated, that there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan, to buffet me, lest I should be over-elated.

For I dread that perhaps, when I come, I may not find you to be such as I wish, and that I may be found by you such as you do not wish; I dread lest there should be quarrels, jealousy, tempers, party spirit, slandering, gossip, arrogance, tumults;

for another gospel, which indeed is not another; only there are certain individuals who are troubling you, and desiring to pervert the gospel of Christ.

Yet there were false brethren who had crept in to spy out the freedom we enjoy in Christ Jesus, in order to enslave us again.

In him there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

against such there is no law.

There is one body and one spirit, even as also you were called in one hope of your calling.

There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

There is a deep mystery here?? am speaking of Christ and his church.

And you masters, show the same spirit to your slaves, and stop threatening them; for you know that your masters and theirs is in heaven, and that there is no respect of persons with him.

If then there is any comfort in Christ, if there is any persuasive power in love, if there is any companionship of the Spirit, if there is any tenderness or pity,

For there are many??s I used often to tell you, and am now telling you even with tears??ho live and walk as the enemies of the cross of Christ.

In it that new creation there is no "Greek and Jew," "circumcised and uncircumcised," "barbarian," "Scythian," "slave," "free man," but Christ is all, and in us all.

For he who wrongs another will be paid back for his wrong-doing, and there will be no favoritism.

For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only there is one who is hindering and will continue to hinder till he be removed;

But I hear that there are those of your number who are leading idle and disorderly lives, who are not busy, but mere busybodies.

As I begged you when I was setting out for Macedonia, stay where you are at Ephesus, and instruct certain individuals there not to be teaching heterodoxy,

Faithful is the saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that "Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners"! And there is no greater sinner than I!

Now the Spirit distinctly declares that in latter days there will be some who will fall away from the faith, by listening to spirits of error, and to teachings of demons

Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay, some for noble, some for ignoble uses.

Henceforth there is laid up for me the garland of righteousness which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that Day, and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

For there are many individuals who are unruly, empty talkers and deceivers, particularly those of the circumcision, whose mouths must be stopped;

As soon as I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, join me in Nicopolis as quickly as you can, for I have arranged to winter there.

See to it, brothers, that there shall never be in any one of you an evil and unbelieving heart, manifesting itself in apostasy from the living God.

On the contrary, encourage each other daily, so long as there is a "Today," so that no one of you is hindered by the deceitfulness of sin.

Let us be on our guard, then, though there is a promise still standing of being admitted to his rest, lest any one of you should be found to have come short of it.

Now if there were perfection through the Levitical priesthood, (and it was under it that the people received the Law) why was it still necessary for another kind of priest to arise, after the order of Melchizedek, instead of being reckoned according to the order of Aaron?

And this is yet more abundantly clear if, after the likeness of Melchizedek, there arises another Priest,

For there is a setting aside of a foregoing commandment, because of its weakness and unprofitableness

(for the Law brought nothing to perfection); and there is the bringing in of a better hope by which we draw near to God;

Now were he on earth, he would not even be a priest, since there are here those who present the gifts according to the Law??5 those priests who serve a mere outline and shadow of the heavenly reality, just as Moses was divinely instructed when he was about to build the Tabernacle. "See", he says, "that you make everything on the pattern showed you on the mountain."

For if the first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no need for a second.

But finding fault with them, He says. "There are days coming," says the Lord, "When I will establish with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah a new covenant;

For where there is a testament, there must also be brought forward in evidence the death of the testator.

almost everything is purified by blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins.

But when these have been remitted, there is no more any offering for sin.

For if we sin wilfully, after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains any other sacrifice for sins,

and thus there sprang from one man, and him practically dead, a nation like the stars in the heavens in multitude, or grains of sand upon the seashore, innumerable.

It is for discipline that you are enduring these sufferings. God is dealing with you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

Look carefully that there be no one who falls back from the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springs up to trouble you, and by its means many become defiled.

Take care lest there be any fornicator or scorner like Esau among you, who for one meal sold his birthright.

and you look up to him who wears the fine clothing, and say to him, "Sit here in this fine place!" and to the poor man you say, "Stand there!" or "Sit on the floor at my feet!"

For wherever jealousy and faction exist, there is confusion and every evil deed.

Go to now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we shall journey to such a city and spend a year there, and trade and make money,"

For he did receive honor and glory from God the Father, when there was borne such a voice to him from the Majestic Glory, This is my Son, my Beloved, in whom I delight;

But there were false prophets, too, among the people, just as among you also there will be false teachers. These will secretly bring in destructive sects, denying even the Master who bought them, and bringing swift ruin upon themselves.

Then there will be many who will follow their immorality, because of whom the Way of the Truth will be maligned.

For they willingly ignore the fact that there were heaven, from of old, and an earth formed out of water and through water, by the word of God;

It is the same in all his letters when he speaks of these things. There are indeed some things in his letters hard to understand, which the ignorant and the shifty wrest, as also they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

But he who loves his brother is abiding in the light, and in it there is no cause of stumbling.

For there are three who bear testimony, the Spirit, and the water,

If any one sees his brother committing a sin that is not deadly, he shall ask, and God will give him life, for any one who is not committing a deadly sin. There is a deadly sin; concerning that I do not say that he should pray.

All unrighteousness is sin; and there is sin that is not deadly.

how they used to say to you, "In the last times there will be scoffers who will be led only by their godless passions."

But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat food offered to idols, and to practise immorality.

Immediately I was in the Spirit; and behold, there stood a throne in heaven, and upon the throne One sat;

and he who sat was in appearance like a jasper stone and a sardius; and there was a rainbow round about the throne, like an emerald to look upon.

And I saw, and lo, a white horse, and he who sat on him had a bow; and there was given him a crown; and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.

And there was given to each one of them a white robe; and they were told that they should rest for yet a little time, until the number should be completed by their fellow slaves and their brethren who were about to be put to death as they had been.

And I looked when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black, like sackcloth, and the full moon became like blood;

And when he opened the seventh seal, there followed a silence in heaven, about the space of half an hour.

Then the angel took the censer, and he filled it with fire from the altar, and poured it upon the earth; and there followed thunders and voices and lightnings and an earthquake.

And the first angel blew his trumpet, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and it fell upon the earth; and the third part of the earth was burned up, and the third part of the trees, and all the green grass.

And the third angel blew his trumpet, and there fell from heaven a great star, blazing like a torch. It fell upon a third of the rivers and upon the springs. (The name of the star is called Wormwood.)

And the fourth angel blew his trumpet, and the third part of the sun was blasted, and a third part of the moon, and a third part of the stars; so that the third part of them should be darkened, and for a third part of the day there was no light, and at night it was the same.

And he opened the bottomless pit, and out of the pit there went up a smoke like the smoke of a great furnace. And the sun and the air grew dark, because of the smoke out of the pit.

The appearance of the locusts was like horses equipped for battle. On their heads there was something like crowns of gold, and their faces were like men's faces,

"The first woe has passed; and still there are two woes to follow."

"Delay there shall be no more, but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to blow his trumpet, then shall there be finished the mystery of God, according to the Good News which he told unto his slaves, the prophets."

And there was given me a reed like to a rod, and a voice said to me. "Go and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and those who are worshiping therein.

And in that hour there was a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell; and there were killed in the earthquake seven thousand persons; and the rest were frightened and gave glory to the God of heaven.

"The second woe is passed; and there is a third woe soon to follow."

And the seventh angel blew his trumpet; and there followed great voices in heaven, and they said, "THE KINGDOMS OF THIS WORLD ARE BECOME THE KINGDOM OF OUR LORD AND OF HIS CHRIST, AND HE WILL REIGN FOREVER AND EVER."

Then the temple of God in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant was seen inside his sanctuary; and there followed lightnings and voices and thunders, and an earthquake, and great hail.

And there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels went forth to war with the dragon; and the dragon also fought, and his angels;

And he was permitted to utter loud boasts and blasphemies; and there was given to him authority to continue forty-two months.

The beast was allowed to wage war upon the saints, and to conquer them; and there was given him authority over every tribe and people and tongue and nation;

And I looked, and lo, there was the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with were a hundred and forty and four thousand who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads.