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For just as the body is one and has many parts, and all the parts of that body, though many, are one body—so also is Christ.

so that there would be no division in the body, but that the members would have the same concern for each other.

So if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

If I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing.

I wish all of you spoke in other tongues, but even more that you prophesied. The person who prophesies is greater than the person who speaks in tongues, unless he interprets so that the church may be built up.

So now, brothers and sisters, if I come to you speaking in other tongues, how will I benefit you unless I speak to you with a revelation or knowledge or prophecy or teaching?

So also you—since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, seek to excel in building up the church.

For you can all prophesy one by one, so that everyone may learn and everyone may be encouraged.

So then, my brothers and sisters, be eager to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in other tongues.

Whether, then, it is I or they, so we proclaim and so you have believed.

and if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation is in vain, and so is your faith.

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

When everything is subject to Christ, then the Son himself will also be subject to the one who subjected everything to him, so that God may be all in all.

So it is with the resurrection of the dead: Sown in corruption, raised in incorruption;

So it is written, The first man Adam became a living being; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

Like the man of dust, so are those who are of the dust; like the man of heaven, so are those who are of heaven.

On the first day of the week, each of you is to set something aside and save in keeping with how he is prospering, so that no collections will need to be made when I come.

and perhaps I will remain with you or even spend the winter, so that you may send me on my way wherever I go.

So let no one look down on him. Send him on his way in peace so that he can come to me, because I am expecting him with the brothers.

He comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any kind of affliction, through the comfort we ourselves receive from God.