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For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays but my mind is unfruitful.

For you may give thanks well enough, but the other man is not edified.

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

What then, brethren? When you come together, each one has a hymn, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification.

For you can all prophesy one by one, so that all may learn and all be encouraged;

For God is not a God of confusion but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints,

the women should keep silence in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be subordinate, as even the law says.

If there is anything they desire to know, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church.

For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures,

For I am the least of the apostles, unfit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised.

If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all men most to be pitied.

For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead.

For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.

For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.

"For God has put all things in subjection under his feet." But when it says, "All things are put in subjection under him," it is plain that he is excepted who put all things under him.

What do I gain if, humanly speaking, I fought with beasts at Ephesus? If the dead are not raised, "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."

Come to your right mind, and sin no more. For some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

For not all flesh is alike, but there is one kind for men, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish.

There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory.