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but if there is no interpreter, he must 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.

Was it from you that the word of God first went forth? Or has it come to you only?

For I am the least of the apostles, and not fit 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 toward me did not prove vain; but I labored even more than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God with me.

Moreover we are even found to be false witnesses of God, because we testified against God that He raised Christ, whom He did not raise, if in fact the dead are not raised.

then comes the end, when He hands over the kingdom to the God and Father, when He has abolished all rule and all authority and power.

When all things are subjected to Him, then the Son Himself also will be subjected to the One who subjected all things to Him, so that God may be all in all.

Become sober-minded as you ought, and stop sinning; for some have no knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.

But God gives it a body just as He wished, and to each of the seeds a body of its own.

Now I say this, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.

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

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the church of God which is at Corinth with all the saints who are throughout 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,

who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

indeed, we had the sentence of death within ourselves so that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead;

For our proud confidence is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and godly sincerity, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you.

But as God is faithful, our word to you is not yes and no.

For the Son of God, Christ Jesus, who was preached among you by us—by me and Silvanus and Timothy—was not yes and no, but is yes in Him.