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For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the death of the Lord, until he comes.

for a person who eats and drinks without recognizing the body eats and drinks judgment upon himself.

So then, my brothers, when you gather together to eat, wait for one another.

If someone is hungry, he should eat at home, so that when you meet together it will not result in judgment. As for the other matters, I will instruct you about them when I come.

Moreover, to each person is given the particular manifestation of the Spirit that will be for the common good.

For just as the body is one but has many parts; and all the parts of the body, though many, constitute one body; so it is with the Messiah.

For it was by one Spirit that we were all immersed into one body, whether Jews or Gentiles, slaves or free; and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.

For indeed the body is not one part but many.

while our attractive parts have no need for such treatment. Indeed, God has put the body together in such a way that he gives greater dignity to the parts that lack it,

So that there will be no disagreements within the body, but rather all the parts will be equally concerned for all the others.

For our knowledge is partial, and our prophecy partial;

For now we see obscurely in a mirror, but then it will be face to face. Now I know partly; then I will know fully, just as God has fully known me.

But for now, three things last — trust, hope, love; and the greatest of these is love.

For someone speaking in a tongue is not speaking to people but to God, because no one can understand, since he is uttering mysteries in the power of the Spirit.

And if the bugle gives an unclear sound, who will get ready for battle?

Therefore someone who speaks in a tongue should pray for the power to interpret.

For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit does pray, but my mind is unproductive.

For undoubtedly you are giving thanks very nicely, but the other person is not being edified.

Thus tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers, while prophecy is not for unbelievers but for believers.

What is our conclusion, brothers? Whenever you come together, let everyone be ready with a psalm or a teaching or a revelation, or ready to use his gift of tongues or give an interpretation; but let everything be for edification.