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What, have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and put them to shame that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you? In this I praise you not.

Wherefore I make known unto you, that no man speaking in the Spirit of God saith, Jesus is anathema; and no man can say, Jesus is Lord, but in the Holy Spirit.

And there are diversities of workings, but the same God, who worketh all things in all.

But now hath God set the members each one of them in the body, even as it pleased him.

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

And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, divers kinds of tongues.

For he that speaketh in a tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God; for no man understandeth; but in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.

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

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 be no interpreter, let him keep silence 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 came it unto 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 upon me was not found vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we witnessed of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead are not raised.

Then cometh 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 unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subjected to him that did subject all things unto him, that God may be all in all.

Awake to soberness righteously, and sin not; for some have no knowledge of God: I speak this to move you to shame.

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

Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.