Study Desk

For nowe we see through a glasse darkely: but then shall wee see face to face. Nowe I know in part: but then shall I know euen as I am knowen.

For hee that speaketh a strange tongue, speaketh not vnto men, but vnto God: for no man heareth him: howbeit in the spirit he speaketh secret things.

I would that ye all spake strange languages, but rather that ye prophecied: for greater is hee that prophecieth, then hee that speaketh diuers tongues, except hee expounde it, that the Church may receiue edification.

So likewise you, by the tongue, except yee vtter wordes that haue signification, howe shall it be vnderstand what is spoken? for ye shal speake in the ayre.

For if I pray in a strange togue, my spirit prayeth: but mine vnderstading is without fruite.

For thou verely giuest thankes well, but the other is not edified.

Wherefore strange tongues are for a signe, not to them that beleeue, but to them that beleeue not: but prophecying serueth not for them that beleeue not, but for them which beleeue.

For ye may all prophecie one by one, that all may learne, and all may haue comfort.

For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as we see in all ye Churches of the Saints.

Let your women keepe silence in the Churches: for it is not permitted vnto them to speake: but they ought to be subiect, as also the Lawe sayth.

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

For I am the least of the Apostles, which am not meete to be called an Apostle, because I persecuted the Church of God.

For if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen:

And we are found also false witnesses of God: for we haue testified of God, that he hath raised vp Christ: whome he hath not raised vp, if so be the dead be not raised.

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

For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.

For as in Adam all die, euen so in Christ shall all be made aliue,

For he must reigne till hee hath put all his enemies vnder his feete.

For he hath put downe all things vnder his feete. (And when he saith that all things are subdued to him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put downe all things vnder him.)