fer to speak five words through my mind, that I may instruct others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue. 20 Brethren, become not little children in understanding, but in malice be childlike, but in understanding become full-grown men. 21 In the law it is written: In words of another tongue and in other lips will I speak to this people, and not even thus will they hearken to me, says the Lord. 22 So, then, the tongues are for a sign, not for the believers, but for the unbelievers, but prophecy, not for the unbelievers, but for the believers. 23 If, then, the whole church shall have come together into the same place, and all speak with tongues, but there come in unlearned men or unbelievers, will they not say that you are mad? 24 But if all prophesy, and there come in any unbeliever or unlearned man, he is convinced by all, he is judged by all; 25 the secrets of his heart become mani fest; and so, falling on his face, he will worship God, reporting that in reality God is in you. For you can all prophesy one by one, that all may learn and all be comforted. 32 And the spirits of prophets are subject to prophets; 33 for God is not of disorder, but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints, 34 let your women be silent in the churches; for it is not permitted to them to speak, but to be in subjection, as the law also says. 35 But if they wish to learn any thing, let them ask their own husbands at home; for it is a shame to a woman to speak in a church. 36 Or came the word of God out from you, or to you only did it come? 37 If any one thinks he is a prophet or spiritual, let him acknowledge the things which I write, that they are of the Lord; 38 but if one is ignorant, let him be ignorant. 39 So then, brethren, ardently desire to prophesy, and forbid not to speak in tongues; 40 but let all things be done in a becoming manner and in order. 15 1 Moreover, I make known to you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, in which also you have stood, 2 through which also you are saved, if you hold fast with what word I preached to you, unless you believed in vain. 3 For I delivered to you, among the first things, that which I also received; that Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures; 4 and that he was buried; and that he rose from the dead on the third day, according to the Scriptures; 5 and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. 6 After that he appeared to more than five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain till 26 What, then, is it, brethren? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has a tongue, has an interpretation: let all things be done with a view to edification. 27 If any one speaks with a tongue, by twos, or, at most, by threes, and in turn, and let one interpret; 28 but if there be no interpreter, let him be silent in the church, but let him speak to himself and to God. 29 And let two or three prophets speak, and let the others discern; 30 but if a revelation be made to another sitting by, let the first be silent. 31 now, but some have also fallen ali die, so also in Christ shall all asleep. 7 After that he appeared to James, after that to all the apostles. 8 But, last of all, as to the one born out of due time, he appeared to me also. 9 For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God; 10 but by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace which was for me became not vain, but I labored more abundantly than they all: not I, however, but the grace of God which was with me. 11 Whether, therefore, I or they, so we preach, and so you believed. be made alive. 23 But each one in his own order; the firstfruit Christ, afterward those that are Christ's at his coming: 24 then the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to the God and Father, when he shall have destroyed all principality and all authority and power. 25 For he must reign till he shall have put all enemies under his feet. 26 Death, the last enemy, shall be destroyed. 27 For he has put all things under his feet. But when he shall have said that all things have been subjected, it is evident that he is excepted who subjected all things to him; 28 but when all things shall have been subjected to him, then shall the Son also be subjected to him who subjected all things to him, that God may be the all in all. 29 Otherwise, what shall they do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are they even baptized for them? 30 Why also are we in danger every hour? 31 I protest by the rejoicing over you, brethren, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily. 32 If as a man I fought with wild beasts in Ephesus, what advantage is it to me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die. 33 Be not de|ceived: Evil communications corrupt good manners. 34 Awake to sobriety, as it is right, and sin not: for ignorance of God some have. For shame to you I speak. 12 But if Christ is preached that he has risen from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, neither has Christ been raised; 14 and if Christ has not been raised, vain then both what we preached, and vain also your faith 15 further, we are also found false witnesses of God, because we testified against God that he raised up Christ, whom he did not raise, if indeed then the dead are not raised. 16 For if the dead are not raised, neither has Christ been raised; 17 but if Christ has not been raised, fruitless your faith, you are yet in your sins: 18 then also those that have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. 19 If only in this life we have been hoping in Christ, more miserable than all men are we. 20 But now has Christ been raised from the dead, the first- 35 But some one will say: How fruits of those that have slept. 21 are the dead raised up? and with For since through man death, what body do they come? 36 Foolthrough man also the resurrection ish man, that which thou sowest is of the dead. 22 For as in Adam not made alive unless it die; 37 and that which thou sowest, thou sowest not the body that shall be produced, but naked grain it may be of wheat, or some of the rest; 38 but God gives it a body as it pleased him, and to each of the seeds its own body. 39 All flesh is not the same flesh, but one indeed of men, but another flesh of beasts, but another flesh of birds, but another of fishes. 40 And there are bodies celestial, and bodies terrestrial; but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial another. 41 There is one giory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory. 42 So also the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption. 43 It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power: 44 it is sown a psychical body, it is raised a spiritual body. changed, 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruptibility, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54 And when this corruptible shall have put on incorruptibility, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: Death is swallowed up in victory. 55 Where thy sting, O death? Where thy victory, O death? 56 The sting of death is sin, but the strength of sin is the law. 57 But thanks to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 58 So then, my beloved brethren, become steadfast, immovable, abounding in the work of the Lord always, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. 16 If there is a psychical body, there 1 But concerning the colis also a spiritual body. 45 So lection which is for the also it is written: The first man saints, as I gave order to the Adam was made a living soul, the churches of Galatia, so also do you. last Adam a life-giving spirit. 46 But not first the spiritual, but the psychical: after that the spiritual. 47 The first man is from the earth, earthy; the second man, from heaven. 48 As the earthy, such also the earthy; and as the heavenly, such also the heavenly; 49 and as we have worn the image of the earthy, we shall also wear the image of the heavenly. 50 But this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, neither does corruption inherit incorruption. 51 Behold, I tell you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be 2 On every first day of the week let each one of you lay by himself, treasuring up whatever he has been prospered, that there be no collections when I come. 3 And when I have come, whomever you may approve, these will I send with letters to bear your favor to Jerusalem; 4 and if it be worth my going also, they shall go with me. 5 But I will come to you when I shall have passed through Macedonia; 6 for I am going through Macedonia, but with you, it may be, I shall remain or even spend the winter, that you may send me forward wherever I may go. 7 For I do not wish to see you now in passing; for I hope to remain some time with you, if the Lord permit. 8 But I shall abide in Ephesus till Pentecost; 9 for there has been opened to me a door great and effectual, and there are many adversaries. 10 Now if Timothy come, see that he be with you without fear; for he works the work of the Lord as I also do: 11 let no one therefore despise him. But send him forward in peace, that he may come to me; for I wait for him with the brethren. 12 But concerning Apollos the brother, I exhorted him much to come to you with the brethren; and his will was not at all to come now; but he will come when he shall have opportunity. 13 Watch, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. 14 Let all your deeds be done in love. 15 Now I beseech you, brethren: PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS-I 1 1 Paul, an apostle of Christ | by God; 5 for as the sufferings Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy the brother, to the church of God which is in Corinth, with all the saints that are in all Achaia. 2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort. 4 who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those that are in all affliction through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted of Christ abound toward us, SO through Christ our comfort also abounds. 6 But whether we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer; and our hope of you is firm: or if we are comforted, it is for your comfort and salvation, 7 knowing that as you are partakers of the sufferings, so also of the comfort. 8 For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning our affliction that came upon us in Asia, 2 that we were exceedingly pressed Silvanus, and Timothy, was not yes beyond strength, so that we de- and no, but in him was yes. 20 For spaired even of life; 9 but we our- as many promises of God as there selves have had in ourselves the are, in him is the yes, and in him sentence of death, that we should the amen to the glory of God not trust in ourselves, but in God through us. 21 Now he who estabwho raises the dead, 10 who deliv-lishes us with you in Christ, and ered us from so great a death and has anointed us is God, 22 who has does deliver, on whom we hope that also sealed us and given us the earhe will even yet deliver, 11 you nest of the Spirit in our hearts. also helping together by prayer for 23 But I call God as a witness us, that for the gift bestowed on against my soul, that, because I us because of the prayers of many would spare you, I came no more persons, thanks may be given to Corinth. 24 Not that we are through many on our behalf. 12 lords over your faith, but we are For our glorying is this, the testi- helpers of your joy; for by faith mony of our conscience, that in sim- you stand. plicity and godly sincerity, not in 1 But I determined this for carnal wisdom, but in the grace of myself, that I would not again God, have we conducted ourselves in sorrow come to you. 2 For if I in the world, but more abundantly give you sorrow, who then is he with you. 13 For we write no other that gives me joy but he that is things to you than what you read or even acknowledge; and I hope you will acknowledge even to the end, 14 even as you also acknowledge us in part, that we are your cause of glorying as you also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus. 15 And in this confidence I intended before to come to you, that you might have a second benefit; 16 and through you to pass into Macedonia, and to come again from Macedonia to you; and by you to be sent forward into Judea. 17 Intending this, then, did I use lightness? or the things which I intend, do I intend according to the flesh, that there should be with me the yes yes and the no no? 18 But as God is faithful, our word which is toward you is not yes and no. 19 For the Son of God, Christ Jesus, who was preached among you through us, through me, and made sorrowful by me? 3 And I wrote this very thing, that I might not on coming have sorrow from those from whom I ought to have joy, having confidence in you all that my joy is the joy of you all. 4 For out of much affliction and distress of heart I wrote to you through many tears, not that you might be made sorrowful, but that you might know the love that I have more abundantly toward you. 5 But if any one has caused sorrow, not me has he made sorrowful, but in part,-that I may not overcharge him,-all of you. 6 Sufficient for such a one is this punishment which was inflicted by the greater number: 7 so that on the other hand you should rather forgive and comfort, lest such a one should be swallowed up by overmuch sorrow. 8 Wherefore I exhort you to confirm to him your love; 9 for to this |