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I commend to you Phebe our sister, who is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea:

Likewise [greet] the church that is in their house. Salute my well-beloved Epenetus, who is the first-fruits of Achaia to Christ.

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

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

For this cause have I sent to you Timothy, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who will bring you into remembrance of my ways which are in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.

If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.

Give no offense, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:

For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there are divisions 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 shame them 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, next miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of languages.

He that speaketh in an [unknown] language edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church.

I would that ye all spoke in languages, but rather that ye prophesied: for greater [is] he that prophesieth than he that speaketh in languages, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.

Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual [gifts], seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church.

Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that [by my voice] I may teach others also, than ten thousand words in an [unknown] language.

If therefore the whole church is assembled in one place, and all speak in languages, and there come in [those that are] unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are insane?

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

And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home; for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.

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

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

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy [our] brother, to the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in all Achaia: