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For the body is not one member, but many.

For our comely parts haue no need: but God hath tempered the bodie together, hauing giuen more abundant honour to that part which lacked:

That there should be no schisme in the body: but that the members should haue the same care one for another.

For we know in part, and we prophesie in part.

For now we see through a glasse, darkely: but then face to face: now I know in part, but then shall I know euen as also I am knowen.

For he that speaketh in an vnknowen tongue, speaketh not vnto men, but vnto God: for no man vnderstandeth him: howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.

I would that yee all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied: for greater is hee that prophesieth, then hee that speaketh with tongues, except hee interprete, that the Church may receiue edifying.

For if the trumpet giue an vncertaine sound, who shall prepare himselfe to the battell?

So likewise you, except ye vtter by the tongue words easie to be vnderstood, how shall it be knowen what is spoken? for ye shall speake into the aire.

For if I pray in an vnknowen tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my vnderstanding is vnfruitfull.

For thou verily giuest thankes well: but the other is not edified.

In the Law it is written, With men of other tongues, and other lippes will I speake vnto this people: and yet for all that will they not heare me, saith the Lord.

Wherfore tongues are for a signe, not to them that beleeue, but to them that beleeue not: But prophesying serueth not for them that beleeue not, but for them which beleeue.

For yee may all prophesie one by one, that all may learne, and all may be comforted.

For God is not the authour of confusion, but of peace, as in all Churches of the Saints.

Let your women keepe silence in the Churches, for it is not permitted vnto them to speake; but they are commanded to bee vnder obedience: as also saith the Law.

And if they will learne any thing, let them aske their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speake in the Church.

For I deliuered vnto you first of all, that which I also receiued, how that Christ died for our sinnes according to the Scriptures:

For I am the least of the Apostles, that am not meet to be called an Apostle because I persecuted ye Church of God.

For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised.