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but when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined, so that we may not be condemned with the world.

Now there are different gifts, but the same Spirit.

There are different ministries, but the same Lord.

And there are different activities, but the same God produces each gift in each person.

Indeed, the body is not one part but many.

But as it is, God has arranged each one of the parts in the body just as he wanted.

As it is, there are many parts, but one body.

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

But desire the greater gifts. And I will show you an even better way.

If I speak human or angelic tongues but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

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.

And if I give away all my possessions, and if I give over my body in order to boast but do not have love, I gain nothing.

Love finds no joy in unrighteousness but rejoices in the truth.

Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end.

but when the perfect comes, the partial will come to an end.

For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, as I am fully known.

Now these three remain: faith, hope, and love—but the greatest of these is love.

For the person who speaks in another tongue is not speaking to people but to God, since no one understands him; he speaks mysteries in the Spirit.

The person who speaks in another tongue builds himself up, but the one who prophesies builds up the church.

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.