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For if I pray in another tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful.

For you may very well be giving thanks, but the other person is not being built up.

Brothers and sisters, don’t be childish in your thinking, but be infants in regard to evil and adult in your thinking.

Speaking in other tongues, then, is intended as a sign, not for believers but for unbelievers, while prophecy is not for unbelievers but for believers.

But if all are prophesying and some unbeliever or outsider comes in, he is convicted by all and is called to account by all.

But if there is no interpreter, that person is to keep silent in the church and speak to himself and God.

But if something has been revealed to another person sitting there, the first prophet should be silent.

since God is not a God of disorder but of peace.

the women should be silent in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak, but are to submit themselves, as the law also says.

But everything is to be done decently and in order.

Then he appeared to over five hundred brothers and sisters at one time; most of them are still alive, but some have fallen asleep.

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.

But as it is, Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.

But each in his own order: Christ, the firstfruits; afterward, at his coming, those who belong to Christ.

But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? What kind of body will they have when they come?”

And as for what you sow—you are not sowing the body that will be, but only a seed, perhaps of wheat or another grain.

But God gives it a body as he wants, and to each of the seeds its own body.

There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the splendor of the heavenly bodies is different from that of the earthly ones.

However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, then the spiritual.

Listen, I am telling you a mystery: We will not all fall asleep, but we will all be changed,