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I commend unto you Phoebe our sister, who is a servant of the church that is at Cenchreae:

and salute the church that is in their house. Salute Epaenetus my beloved, who is the firstfruits of Asia unto Christ.

Gaius my host, and of the whole church, saluteth you. Erastus the treasurer of the city saluteth you, and Quartus the brother.

unto the church of God which is at Corinth, [even] them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called [to be] saints, with all that call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, their [Lord] and ours:

For this cause have I sent unto you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who shall put you in remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every church.

If then ye have to judge things pertaining to this life, do ye set them to judge who are of no account in the church?

Give no occasion of stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the church of God:

For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that divisions exist among you; and I partly believe it.

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.

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.

He that speaketh in a tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church.

Now I would have you all speak with tongues, but rather that ye should prophesy: and greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.

So also ye, since ye are zealous of spiritual [gifts], seek that ye may abound unto the edifying of the church.

howbeit in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue.

If therefore the whole church be assembled together, and all speak with tongues, and there come in men unlearned or unbelieving, will they not say that ye are mad?

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

And if they would learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home: for it is shameful for a woman to speak in the church.

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

The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Prisca salute you much in the Lord, with the church that is in their house.

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