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But if there is no one to give the sense, let him keep quiet in the church; and let his words be to himself and to God.

For God is not a God whose ways are without order, but a God of peace; as in all the churches of the saints.

What? was it from you that the word of God went out? or did it only come in to you?

For I am the least of the Apostles, having no right to be named an Apostle, because of my cruel attacks on the church of God.

But by the grace of God, I am what I am: and his grace which was given to me has not been for nothing; for I did more work than all of them; though not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Yes, and we are seen to be false witnesses of God; because we gave witness of God that by his power Christ came again from the dead: which is not true if there is no coming back from the dead.

Then comes the end, when he will give up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he will have put an end to all rule and to all authority and power.

And when all things have been put under him, then will the Son himself be under him who put all things under him, so that God may be all in all.

Be awake to righteousness and keep yourselves from sin; for some have no knowledge of God: I say this to put you to shame.

But God gives it a body, as it is pleasing to him, and to every seed its special body.

Now I say this, my brothers, that it is not possible for flesh and blood to have a part in the kingdom of God; and death may not have a part in life.

But praise be to God who gives us strength to overcome through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Paul, an Apostle of Jesus Christ by the purpose of God, and Timothy the brother, to the church of God which is in Corinth, with all the saints who are in all Achaia:

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

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort;

Who gives us comfort in all our troubles, so that we may be able to give comfort to others who are in trouble, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

Yes, we ourselves have had the answer of death in ourselves, so that our hope might not be in ourselves, but in God who is able to give life to the dead:

You at the same time helping together by your prayer for us; so that for what has been given to us through a number of persons, praise may go up to God for us from all of them.

For our glory is in this, in the knowledge which we have that our way of life in the world, and most of all in relation to you, has been holy and true in the eyes of God; not in the wisdom of the flesh, but in the grace of God.

As God is true, our word to you is not Yes and No.