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Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away with; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away with.

but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away with.

When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things.

What is the outcome then? I will pray with the spirit, but I will pray with the mind also; I will sing with the spirit, but I will sing with the mind also.

nevertheless, in church I prefer to speak five words with my mind so that I may instruct others also, rather than ten thousand words in a tongue.

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.

If from human motives I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what good is it to me? If the dead are not raised, LET'S EAT AND DRINK, FOR TOMORROW WE DIE.

But someone will say, "How are the dead raised? And with what kind of body do they come?"

When I arrive, whomever you approve, I will send them with letters to take your gift to Jerusalem;

and if it is appropriate for me to go also, they will go with me.

and perhaps I will stay with you or even spend the winter, so that you may send me on my way wherever I go.

For I do not want to see you now just in passing; for I hope to remain with you for some time, if the Lord permits.

So do not look down on him, anyone. But send him on his way in peace, so that he may come to me; for I expect him with the brothers.

Now concerning our brother Apollos, I strongly encouraged him to come to you with the brothers; and it was not at all his desire to come now, but he will come when he has the opportunity.

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

All the brothers and sisters greet you. Greet one another with a holy kiss.

The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you.

My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.

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

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.