13:1If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling;
13:2and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing;
13:3and if I give away to feed others all my goods, and if I give up my body that I may be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.
13:4The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,
13:5doth not act unseemly, doth not seek its own things, is not provoked, doth not impute evil,
13:6rejoiceth not over the unrighteousness, and rejoiceth with the truth;
13:7all things it beareth, all it believeth, all it hopeth, all it endureth.
13:8The love doth never fail; and whether there be prophecies, they shall become useless; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall become useless;
13:9for in part we know, and in part we prophecy;
13:10and when that which is perfect may come, then that which is in part shall become useless.
13:11When I was a babe, as a babe I was speaking, as a babe I was thinking, as a babe I was reasoning, and when I have become a man, I have made useless the things of the babe;
13:12for we see now through a mirror obscurely, and then face to face; now I know in part, and then I shall fully know, as also I was known;
13:13and now there doth remain faith, hope, love -- these three; and the greatest of these is love.
14:1Pursue the love, and seek earnestly the spiritual things, and rather that ye may prophecy,
14:2for he who is speaking in an unknown tongue -- to men he doth not speak, but to God, for no one doth hearken, and in spirit he doth speak secrets;
14:3and he who is prophesying to men doth speak edification, and exhortation, and comfort;
14:4he who is speaking in an unknown tongue, himself doth edify, and he who is prophesying, an assembly doth edify;
14:5and I wish you all to speak with tongues, and more that ye may prophecy, for greater is he who is prophesying than he who is speaking with tongues, except one may interpret, that the assembly may receive edification.
14:6And now, brethren, if I may come unto you speaking tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either in revelation, or in knowledge, or in prophesying, or in teaching?
14:7yet the things without life giving sound -- whether pipe or harp -- if a difference in the sounds they may not give, how shall be known that which is piped or that which is harped?
14:8for if also an uncertain sound a trumpet may give, who shall prepare himself for battle?
14:9so also ye, if through the tongue, speech easily understood ye may not give -- how shall that which is spoken be known? for ye shall be speaking to air.
14:10There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is unmeaning,
14:11if, then, I do not know the power of the voice, I shall be to him who is speaking a foreigner, and he who is speaking, is to me a foreigner;
14:12so also ye, since ye are earnestly desirous of spiritual gifts, for the building up of the assembly seek that ye may abound;
14:13wherefore he who is speaking in an unknown tongue -- let him pray that he may interpret;
14:14for if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit doth pray, and my understanding is unfruitful.
14:15What then is it? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray also with the understanding; I will sing psalms with the spirit, and I will sing psalms also with the understanding;
14:16since, if thou mayest bless with the spirit, he who is filling the place of the unlearned, how shall he say the Amen at thy giving of thanks, since what thou dost say he hath not known?
14:17for thou, indeed, dost give thanks well, but the other is not built up!
14:18I give thanks to my God -- more than you all with tongues speaking --
14:19but in an assembly I wish to speak five words through my understanding, that others also I may instruct, rather than myriads of words in an unknown tongue.
14:20Brethren, become not children in the understanding, but in the evil be ye babes, and in the understanding become ye perfect;
14:21in the law it hath been written, that, `With other tongues and with other lips I will speak to this people, and not even so will they hear Me, saith the Lord;'
14:22so that the tongues are for a sign, not to the believing, but to the unbelieving; and the prophesy is not for the unbelieving, but for the believing,
14:23If, therefore, the whole assembly may come together, to the same place, and all may speak with tongues, and there may come in unlearned or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?
14:24and if all may prophecy, and any one may come in, an unbeliever or unlearned, he is convicted by all, he is discerned by all,
14:25and so the secrets of his heart become manifest, and so having fallen upon his face, he will bow before God, declaring that God really is among you.
14:26What then is it, brethren? whenever ye may come together, each of you hath a psalm, hath a teaching, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation? let all things be for building up;
14:27if an unknown tongue any one do speak, by two, or at the most, by three, and in turn, and let one interpret;
14:28and if there may be no interpreter, let him be silent in an assembly, and to himself let him speak, and to God.
14:29And prophets -- let two or three speak, and let the others discern,
14:30and if to another sitting anything may be revealed, let the first be silent;
14:31for ye are able, one by one, all to prophesy, that all may learn, and all may be exhorted,
14:32and the spiritual gift of prophets to prophets are subject,
14:33for God is not a God of tumult, but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints.
14:34Your women in the assemblies let them be silent, for it hath not been permitted to them to speak, but to be subject, as also the law saith;
14:35and if they wish to learn anything, at home their own husbands let them question, for it is a shame to women to speak in an assembly.
14:36From you did the word of God come forth? or to you alone did it come?
14:37if any one doth think to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge the things that I write to you -- that of the Lord they are commands;
14:38and if any one is ignorant -- let him be ignorant;
14:39so that, brethren, earnestly desire to prophesy, and to speak with tongues do not forbid;
14:40let all things be done decently and in order.
15:1And I make known to you, brethren, the good news that I proclaimed to you, which also ye did receive, in which also ye have stood,
15:2through which also ye are being saved, in what words I proclaimed good news to you, if ye hold fast, except ye did believe in vain,
15:3for I delivered to you first, what also I did receive, that Christ died for our sins, according to the Writings,
15:4and that he was buried, and that he hath risen on the third day, according to the Writings,
15:5and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve,
15:6afterwards he appeared to above five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain till now, and certain also did fall asleep;
15:7afterwards he appeared to James, then to all the apostles.
15:8And last of all -- as to the untimely birth -- he appeared also to me,
15:9for I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I did persecute the assembly of God,
15:10and by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace that is towards me came not in vain, but more abundantly than they all did I labour, yet not I, but the grace of God that is with me;
15:11whether, then, I or they, so we preach, and so ye did believe.
15:12And if Christ is preached, that out of the dead he hath risen, how say certain among you, that there is no rising again of dead persons?
15:13and if there be no rising again of dead persons, neither hath Christ risen;
15:14and if Christ hath not risen, then void is our preaching, and void also your faith,
15:15and we also are found false witnesses of God, because we did testify of God that He raised up the Christ, whom He did not raise if then dead persons do not rise;
15:16for if dead persons do not rise, neither hath Christ risen,
15:17and if Christ hath not risen, vain is your faith, ye are yet in your sins;
15:18then, also, those having fallen asleep in Christ did perish;
15:19if in this life we have hope in Christ only, of all men we are most to be pitied.
15:20And now, Christ hath risen out of the dead -- the first-fruits of those sleeping he became,
15:21for since through man is the death, also through man is a rising again of the dead,
15:22for even as in Adam all die, so also in the Christ all shall be made alive,
15:23and each in his proper order, a first-fruit Christ, afterwards those who are the Christ's, in his presence,
15:24then -- the end, when he may deliver up the reign to God, even the Father, when he may have made useless all rule, and all authority and power --
15:25for it behoveth him to reign till he may have put all the enemies under his feet --
15:26the last enemy is done away -- death;
15:27for all things He did put under his feet, and, when one may say that all things have been subjected, it is evident that He is excepted who did subject the all things to him,
15:28and when the all things may be subjected to him, then the Son also himself shall be subject to Him, who did subject to him the all things, that God may be the all in all.
15:29Seeing what shall they do who are baptized for the dead, if the dead do not rise at all? why also are they baptized for the dead?
15:30why also do we stand in peril every hour?
15:31Every day do I die, by the glorying of you that I have in Christ Jesus our Lord:
15:32if after the manner of a man with wild beasts I fought in Ephesus, what the advantage to me if the dead do not rise? let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die!
15:33Be not led astray; evil communications corrupt good manners;
15:34awake up, as is right, and sin not; for certain have an ignorance of God; for shame to you I say it.
15:35But some one will say, `How do the dead rise?
15:36unwise! thou -- what thou dost sow is not quickened except it may die;
15:37and that which thou dost sow, not the body that shall be dost thou sow, but bare grain, it may be of wheat, or of some one of the others,
15:38and God doth give to it a body according as He willed, and to each of the seeds its proper body.
15:39All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another of fishes, and another of birds;
15:40and there are heavenly bodies, and earthly bodies; but one is the glory of the heavenly, and another that of the earthly;
15:41one glory of sun, and another glory of moon, and another glory of stars, for star from star doth differ in glory.
15:42So also is the rising again of the dead: it is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption;
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; there is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body;
15:45so also it hath been written, `The first man Adam became a living creature,' the last Adam is for a life-giving spirit,
15:46but that which is spiritual is not first, but that which was natural, afterwards that which is spiritual.
15:47The first man is out of the earth, earthy; the second man is the Lord out of heaven;
15:48as is the earthy, such are also the earthy; and as is the heavenly, such are also the heavenly;
15:49and, according as we did bear the image of the earthy, we shall bear also the image of the heavenly.
15:50And this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood the reign of God is not able to inherit, nor doth the corruption inherit the incorruption;
15:51lo, I tell you a secret; we indeed shall not all sleep, and we all shall be changed;
15:52in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, in the last trumpet, for it shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we -- we shall be changed:
15:53for it behoveth this corruptible to put on incorruption, and this mortal to put on immortality;
15:54and when this corruptible may have put on incorruption, and this mortal may have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the word that hath been written, `The Death was swallowed up -- to victory;
15:55where, O Death, thy sting? where, O Hades, thy victory?'
15:56and the sting of the death is the sin, and the power of the sin the law;
15:57and to God -- thanks, to Him who is giving us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ;
15:58so that, my brethren beloved, become ye stedfast, unmovable, abounding in the work of the Lord at all times, knowing that your labour is not vain in the Lord.
16:1And concerning the collection that is for the saints, as I directed to the assemblies of Galatia, so also ye -- do ye;
16:2on every first day of the week, let each one of you lay by him, treasuring up whatever he may have prospered, that when I may come then collections may not be made;
16:3and whenever I may come, whomsoever ye may approve, through letters, these I will send to carry your favour to Jerusalem;
16:4and if it be meet for me also to go, with me they shall go.
16:5And I will come unto you, when I pass through Macedonia -- for Macedonia I do pass through --
16:6and with you, it may be, I will abide, or even winter, that ye may send me forward whithersoever I go,
16:7for I do not wish to see you now in the passing, but I hope to remain a certain time with you, if the Lord may permit;
16:8and I will remain in Ephesus till the Pentecost,
16:9for a door to me hath been opened -- great and effectual -- and withstanders are many.
16:10And if Timotheus may come, see that he may become without fear with you, for the work of the Lord he doth work, even as I,
16:11no one, then, may despise him; and send ye him forward in peace, that he may come to me, for I expect him with the brethren;
16:12and concerning Apollos our brother, much I did entreat him that he may come unto you with the brethren, and it was not at all his will that he may come now, and he will come when he may find convenient.
16:13Watch ye, stand in the faith; be men, be strong;
16:14let all your things be done in love.
16:15And I entreat you, brethren, ye have known the household of Stephanas, that it is the first-fruit of Achaia, and to the ministration to the saints they did set themselves --
16:16that ye also be subject to such, and to every one who is working with us and labouring;
16:17and I rejoice over the presence of Stephanas, and Fortunatus, and Achaicus, because the lack of you did these fill up;
16:18for they did refresh my spirit and yours; acknowledge ye, therefore, those who are such.
16:19Salute you do the assemblies of Asia; salute you much in the Lord do Aquilas and Priscilla, with the assembly in their house;
16:20salute you do all the brethren; salute ye one another in an holy kiss.
16:21The salutation of me Paul with my hand;
16:22if any one doth not love the Lord Jesus Christ -- let him be anathema! The Lord hath come!
16:23The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ is with you;
16:24my love is with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.