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whereas our comely [parts] have no need: but God tempered the body together, giving more abundant honor to that [part] which lacked;

And God has set some in the church, first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, [diverse] kinds of tongues.

For he that speaks in a tongue speaks not to men, but to God; for no man understands; but in the spirit he speaks mysteries.

I thank God, I speak with tongues more than all of you:

the secrets of his heart are made manifest; and so he will fall down on his face and worship God, declaring that God is among you indeed.

but if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.

for God is not [a God] of confusion, but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints,

What? was it from you that the word of God went forth? or did it come to you alone?

For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed on me was not found vain; but I labored more abundantly than of them all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Yes, we are found false witnesses of God; because we witnessed of God that he raised up Christ: whom he did not raise up, if indeed the dead are not raised.

Then [comes] the end, when he shall deliver up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have abolished all rule and all authority and power.

And when all things have been subjected to him, then shall the Son also himself be subjected to him that subjected all things to him, that God may be all in all.

Awake to soberness righteously, and don't sin; for some have no knowledge of God: I speak [this] to move you to shame.

but God gives it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own.

Now this I say, brothers, that flesh and blood can't inherit the kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.

but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints that are in the whole of Achaia:

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort;