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whereas our more respectable members do not need this. But God has so arranged the body, giving the greater honor to the inferior member,

And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

Now I would like all of you to speak in tongues, but even more to prophesy. One who prophesies is greater than one who speaks in tongues, unless someone interprets, so that the church may be built up.

So with yourselves; if in a tongue you utter speech that is not intelligible, how will anyone know what is being said? For you will be speaking into the air.

So with yourselves; since you are eager for spiritual gifts, strive to excel in them for building up the church.

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

So, my friends, be eager to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues;

Whether then it was I or they, so we proclaim and so you have come to believe.

for as all die in Adam, so all will be made alive in Christ.

When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to the one who put all things in subjection under him, so that God may be all in all.

So it is with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable.

As was the man of dust, so are those who are of the dust; and as is the man of heaven, so are those who are of heaven.

On the first day of every week, each of you is to put aside and save whatever extra you earn, so that collections need not be taken when I come.

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

therefore let no one despise him. Send him on his way in peace, so that he may come to me; for I am expecting him with the brothers.

for they refreshed my spirit as well as yours. So give recognition to such persons.

who consoles us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to console those who are in any affliction with the consolation with which we ourselves are consoled by God.

For just as the sufferings of Christ are abundant for us, so also our consolation is abundant through Christ.

Our hope for you is unshaken; for we know that as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our consolation.