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and [salute] the church that is in their house. Salute Epaenetus my beloved, who is the first fruits of Asia to Christ.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

And God has set some in the church, first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, [diverse] kinds of tongues.

He that speaks in a tongue edifies himself; but he that prophesies edifies the church.

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

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

nevertheless in the church I would 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 is assembled together and all speak with tongues, and unlearned or unbelieving men come in, will they not say that you are insane?

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

And if they want to 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, to the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints that are in the whole of Achaia:

For you have heard of my manner of life in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and made havoc of it: