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that there shulde be no stryfe in the body, but that the membres shulde indifferently care one for another. And yf one membre suffre, all the membres suffre with him:

For oure knowlege is vnparfecte, and oure prophecienge is vnparfecte.

Laboure for loue. Couet spirituall giftes, but specially that ye maye prophecye.

For he yt speaketh with tunges, speaketh not vnto men, but vnto God: for no man heareth him. Howbeit in ye sprete he speaketh misteries.

I wolde that ye all spake with tunges, but rather that ye prophecied. For greater is he that prophecieth, then he that speaketh wt tuges: excepte he also expounde it, that the congregacion maye haue edifienge.

Euen so ye likewyse, whan ye speake with tunges, excepte ye speake playne wordes, how shal it be knowne what is spoke? for ye shal but speake in ye ayre.

Eue so ye (for so moch as ye couet spirituall giftes (seke yt ye maye haue plentye to the edifienge of the congregacion.

Therfore are tunges for a token, not to the that beleue, but to them that beleue not. Contrary wyse, prophecienge, not to them that beleue not, but to them which beleue.

As for the prophetes, let two or thre speake and let the other iudge.

For God is not a God off discension, but off peace, like as in all congregacions off the sayntes.

Let youre wyues kepe sylence in the cogregacion, for it shal not be permytted vnto the to speake, but to be vnder obedience, as ye lawe sayeth also.

But yf they wyll lerne eny thinge, let them axe their hussbades at home. For it becommeth not weme to speake in the congregacion.

Yf eny man thynke himselfe to be a prophet, or spirituall, let him knowe what I wryte vnto you, for they are the commaundementes of the LORDE.

For first of all I delyuered vnto you that which I also receaued, how that Christ dyed for oure synnes acordinge to the scriptures,

For I am ye leest of the Apostles, which am not worthy to be called an Apostle, because I persecuted the congregacion of God.

For yf the deed ryse not agayne, the is Christ also not rysen agayne.

For by one man commeth death, and by one man the resurreccion of the deed.

For as they all dye in Adam, so shal they all be made alyue in Christ,

For he must raygne, tyll he haue put all his enemies vnder his fete.

for he hath put all thinges vnder his fete. But wha he sayeth, that all thinges are put vnder him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which put all thinges vnder him.