13:1If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

13:2And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

13:3And if I shall dole out all my goods in food, and if I deliver up my body that I may be burned, but have not love, I profit nothing.

13:4Love has long patience, is kind; love is not emulous of others; love is not insolent and rash, is not puffed up,

13:5does not behave in an unseemly manner, does not seek what is its own, is not quickly provoked, does not impute evil,

13:6does not rejoice at iniquity but rejoices with the truth,

13:7bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

13:8Love never fails; but whether prophecies, they shall be done away; or tongues, they shall cease; or knowledge, it shall be done away.

13:9For we know in part, and we prophesy in part:

13:10but when that which is perfect has come, that which is in part shall be done away.

13:11When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I reasoned as a child; when I became a man, I had done with what belonged to the child.

13:12For we see now through a dim window obscurely, but then face to face; now I know partially, but then I shall know according as I also have been known.

13:13And now abide faith, hope, love; these three things; and the greater of these is love.

14:1Follow after love, and be emulous of spiritual manifestations, but rather that ye may prophesy.

14:2For he that speaks with a tongue does not speak to men but to God: for no one hears; but in spirit he speaks mysteries.

14:3But he that prophesies speaks to men in edification, and encouragement, and consolation.

14:4He that speaks with a tongue edifies himself; but he that prophesies edifies the assembly.

14:5Now I desire that ye should all speak with tongues, but rather that ye should prophesy. But greater is he that prophesies than he that speaks with tongues, unless he interpret, that the assembly may receive edification.

14:6And now, brethren, if I come to you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, unless I shall speak to you either in revelation, or in knowledge, or in prophecy, or in teaching?

14:7Even lifeless things giving a sound, whether pipe or harp, if they give not distinction to the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?

14:8For also, if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself for war?

14:9Thus also *ye* with the tongue, unless ye give a distinct speech, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye will be speaking to the air.

14:10There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of undistinguishable sound.

14:11If therefore I do not know the power of the sound, I shall be to him that speaks a barbarian, and he that speaks a barbarian for me.

14:12Thus *ye* also, since ye are desirous of spirits, seek that ye may abound for the edification of the assembly.

14:13Wherefore let him that speaks with a tongue pray that he may interpret.

14:14For if I pray with a tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful.

14:15What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, but I will pray also with the understanding; I will sing with the spirit, but I will sing also with the understanding.

14:16Since otherwise, if thou blessest with the spirit, how shall he who fills the place of the simple Christian say Amen, at thy giving of thanks, since he does not know what thou sayest?

14:17For *thou* indeed givest thanks well, but the other is not edified.

14:18I thank God I speak in a tongue more than all of you:

14:19but in the assembly I desire to speak five words with my understanding, that I may instruct others also, rather than ten thousand words in a tongue.

14:20Brethren, be not children in your minds, but in malice be babes; but in your minds be grown men.

14:21It is written in the law, By people of other tongues, and by strange lips, will I speak to this people; and neither thus will they hear me, saith the Lord.

14:22So that tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe, but to unbelievers; but prophecy, not to unbelievers, but to those who believe.

14:23If therefore the whole assembly come together in one place, and all speak with tongues, and simple persons enter in, or unbelievers, will not they say ye are mad?

14:24But if all prophesy, and some unbeliever or simple person come in, he is convicted of all, he is judged of all;

14:25the secrets of his heart are manifested; and thus, falling upon his face, he will do homage to God, reporting that God is indeed amongst you.

14:26What is it then, brethren? whenever ye come together, each of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be done to edification.

14:27If any one speak with a tongue, let it be two, or at the most three, and separately, and let one interpret;

14:28but if there be no interpreter, let him be silent in the assembly, and let him speak to himself and to God.

14:29And let two or three prophets speak, and let the others judge.

14:30But if there be a revelation to another sitting there, let the first be silent.

14:31For ye can all prophesy one by one, that all may learn and all be encouraged.

14:32And spirits of prophets are subject to prophets.

14:33For God is not a God of disorder but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints.

14:34Let your women be silent in the assemblies, for it is not permitted to them to speak; but to be in subjection, as the law also says.

14:35But if they wish to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home; for it is a shame for a woman to speak in assembly.

14:36Did the word of God go out from you, or did it come to you only?

14:37If any one thinks himself to be a prophet or spiritual, let him recognise the things that I write to you, that it is the Lord's commandment.

14:38But if any be ignorant, let him be ignorant.

14:39So that, brethren, desire to prophesy, and do not forbid the speaking with tongues.

14:40But let all things be done comelily and with order.

15:1But I make known to you, brethren, the glad tidings which I announced to you, which also ye received, in which also ye stand,

15:2by which also ye are saved, (if ye hold fast the word which I announced to you as the glad tidings,) unless indeed ye have believed in vain.

15:3For I delivered to you, in the first place, what also I had received, that Christ died for our sins, according to the scriptures;

15:4and that he was buried; and that he was raised the third day, according to the scriptures;

15:5and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.

15:6Then he appeared to above five hundred brethren at once, of whom the most remain until now, but some also have fallen asleep.

15:7Then he appeared to James; then to all the apostles;

15:8and last of all, as to an abortion, he appeared to *me* also.

15:9For *I* am the least of the apostles, who am not fit to be called apostle, because I have persecuted the assembly of God.

15:10But by God's grace I am what I am; and his grace, which was towards me, has not been vain; but I have laboured more abundantly than they all, but not *I*, but the grace of God which was with me.

15:11Whether, therefore, I or they, thus we preach, and thus ye have believed.

15:12Now if Christ is preached that he is raised from among the dead, how say some among you that there is not a resurrection of those that are dead?

15:13But if there is not a resurrection of those that are dead, neither is Christ raised:

15:14but if Christ is not raised, then, indeed, vain also is our preaching, and vain also your faith.

15:15And we are found also false witnesses of God; for we have witnessed concerning God that he raised the Christ, whom he has not raised if indeed those that are dead are not raised.

15:16For if those that are dead are not raised, neither is Christ raised;

15:17but if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.

15:18Then indeed also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

15:19If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are the most miserable of all men.

15:20(But now Christ is raised from among the dead, first-fruits of those fallen asleep.

15:21For since by man came death, by man also resurrection of those that are dead.

15:22For as in the Adam all die, thus also in the Christ all shall be made alive.

15:23But each in his own rank: the first-fruits, Christ; then those that are the Christ's at his coming.

15:24Then the end, when he gives up the kingdom to him who is God and Father; when he shall have annulled all rule and all authority and power.

15:25For he must reign until he put all enemies under his feet.

15:26The last enemy that is annulled is death.

15:27For he has put all things in subjection under his feet. But when he says that all things are put in subjection, it is evident that it is except him who put all things in subjection to him.

15:28But when all things shall have been brought into subjection to him, then the Son also himself shall be placed in subjection to him who put all things in subjection to him, that God may be all in all.)

15:29Since what shall the baptised for the dead do if those that are dead rise not at all? why also are they baptised for them?

15:30Why do *we* also endanger ourselves every hour?

15:31Daily I die, by your boasting which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.

15:32If, to speak after the manner of man, I have fought with beasts in Ephesus, what is the profit to me if those that are dead do not rise? let us eat and drink; for to-morrow we die.

15:33Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

15:34Awake up righteously, and sin not; for some are ignorant of God: I speak to you as a matter of shame.

15:35But some one will say, How are the dead raised? and with what body do they come?

15:36Fool; what *thou* sowest is not quickened unless it die.

15:37And what thou sowest, thou sowest not the body that shall be, but a bare grain: it may be of wheat, or some one of the rest:

15:38and God gives to it a body as he has pleased, and to each of the seeds its own body.

15:39Every flesh is not the same flesh, but one is of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another flesh of birds, and another of fishes.

15:40And there are heavenly bodies, and earthly bodies: but different is the glory of the heavenly, different that of the earthly:

15:41one the sun's glory, and another the moon's glory, and another the stars' glory; for star differs from star in glory.

15:42Thus also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruptibility.

15:43It is sown in dishonour, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power.

15:44It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body: if there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual one.

15:45Thus also it is written, The first man Adam became a living soul; the last Adam a quickening spirit.

15:46But that which is spiritual was not first, but that which is natural, then that which is spiritual:

15:47the first man out of the earth, made of dust; the second man, out of heaven.

15:48Such as he made of dust, such also those made of dust; and such as the heavenly one, such also the heavenly ones.

15:49And as we have borne the image of the one made of dust, we shall bear also the image of the heavenly one.

15:50But this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit God's kingdom, nor does corruption inherit incorruptibility.

15:51Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all fall asleep, but we shall all be changed,

15:52in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and *we* shall be changed.

15:53For this corruptible must needs put on incorruptibility, and this mortal put on immortality.

15:54But when this corruptible shall have put on incorruptibility, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall come to pass the word written: Death has been swallowed up in victory.

15:55Where, O death, is thy sting? where, O death, thy victory?

15:56Now the sting of death is sin, and the power of sin the law;

15:57but thanks to God, who gives us the victory by our Lord Jesus Christ.

15:58So then, my beloved brethren, be firm, immovable, abounding always in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord.

16:1Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I directed the assemblies of Galatia, so do *ye* do also.

16:2On the first of the week let each of you put by at home, laying up in whatever degree he may have prospered, that there may be no collections when I come.

16:3And when I am arrived, whomsoever ye shall approve, these I will send with letters to carry your bounty to Jerusalem:

16:4and if it be suitable that *I* also should go, they shall go with me.

16:5But I will come to you when I shall have gone through Macedonia; for I do go through Macedonia.

16:6But perhaps I will stay with you, or even winter with you, that *ye* may set me forward wheresoever I may go.

16:7For I will not see you now in passing, for I hope to remain a certain time with you, if the Lord permit.

16:8But I remain in Ephesus until Pentecost.

16:9For a great door is opened to me and an effectual one, and the adversaries many.

16:10Now if Timotheus come, see that he may be with you without fear; for he works the work of the Lord, even as I.

16:11Let not therefore any one despise him; but set him forward in peace, that he may come to me; for I expect him with the brethren.

16:12Now concerning the brother Apollos, I begged him much that he would go to you with the brethren; but it was not at all his will to go now; but he will come when he shall have good opportunity.

16:13Be vigilant; stand fast in the faith; quit yourselves like men; be strong.

16:14Let all things ye do be done in love.

16:15But I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first-fruits of Achaia, and they have devoted themselves to the saints for service,)

16:16that *ye* should also be subject to such, and to every one joined in the work and labouring.

16:17But I rejoice in the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus; because *they* have supplied what was lacking on your part.

16:18For they have refreshed my spirit and yours: own therefore such.

16:19The assemblies of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla, with the assembly in their house, salute you much in the Lord.

16:20All the brethren salute you. Salute one another with a holy kiss.

16:21The salutation of me Paul with my own hand.

16:22If any one love not the Lord Jesus Christ let him be Anathema Maranatha.

16:23The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

16:24My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.