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For as the body is one, and has a number of parts, and all the parts make one body, so is Christ.

But those parts of the body which are beautiful have no need of such care: and so the body has been joined together by God in such a way as to give more honour to those parts which had need of it;

So that there might be no division in the body; but all the parts might have the same care for one another.

So if you, in using a strange tongue, say words which have no sense, how will anyone take in what you are saying? for you will be talking to the air.

So if you are desiring the things which the Spirit gives, let your minds be turned first to the things which are for the good of the church.

For if you give a blessing with the spirit, how will the man who has no knowledge say, So be it, after your prayer, seeing that he has not taken in what you are saying?

But in the church it would be better for me to make use of five words of which the sense was clear, so that others might have profit, than ten thousand words in a strange tongue.

In the law it is said, By men of other tongues and by strange lips will my words come to this people; and not even so will they give ear to me, says the Lord.

For you may all be prophets in turn so that all may get knowledge and comfort;

But if any man is without knowledge, let him be so.

So then, my brothers, let it be your chief desire to be prophets; but let no one be stopped from using tongues.

And if that is so, your faith is of no effect; you are still in your sins.

For as by man came death, so by man there is a coming back from the dead.

For as in Adam death comes to all, so in Christ will all come back to life.

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.

So is it with the coming back from the dead. It is planted in death; it comes again in life:

And so it is said, The first man Adam was a living soul. The last Adam is a life-giving spirit.

And in the same way as we have taken on us the image of the man from the earth, so we will take on us the image of the one from heaven.

Now about the giving of money for the saints, as I gave orders to the churches of Galatia, so do you.

On the first day of the week, let every one of you put by him in store, in measure as he has done well in business, so that it may not be necessary to get money together when I come.