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13 For we all by one Spirit into one body are baptized; whether Jihudoyee or Aramoyee; whether servants or sons of freedom; and all of us have imbibed one Spirit.
14 For the body also is not one member, but many.
15 For if the foot should say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body itself, would it therefore not be of the body itself?
16 And if the ear should say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body itself, would it therefore not be of the body itself?
17 For if the whole body were the eye, where would be the hearing? And if the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling?
18 But now hath Aloha set all the members severally in the body as he willed.
19 But if all were one member, where would be the body?
20 But now the members are many, but the body one.
21 The eye is not able to say to the hand, Thou art not needful to me; nor is the hand able to say to the feet, You are not needful to me.
22 But those members which are considered to be feeble, of them is the more especial need;
23 and those which we consider contemptible in the body, to these the more we increase the honour; and on those which are of shame we bestow the greater decoration.
24 But those members that are honourable in us have no need of adornment: [Or, honour.] but Aloha hath contempered the body, and given the more honour to the member which is inconsiderable;
25 that there should be no divisions in the body, but all the members equally one of the other should have care:
26 as that when one member shall be diseased, all may suffer; and if one member be glorified, all the members may be glorified.
27 But you are the body of the Meshiha, and members in your place.
28 FOR Aloha hath placed in the church, first, apostles; after them, prophets; after them, teachers; after them, workers of miracles;[Powers.] after them, gifts of healing, and helpers, and leaders, and kinds of tongues.
29 Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all workers of miracles?
30 Have all the gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues, or do all interpret?
31 But if you are emulous of great gifts, I will yet show you a way more admirable.
13 1 Though in every tongue of men and of angels I spoke, and had not love, I should be as brass which soundeth, or a cymbal which giveth voice.
2 And though there were in me prophecy, and I knew all mysteries, and all knowledge, and though there were in me all faith, as that I could remove the mountain,[Mountains. - WALTON'S edit.] and love were not in me, I should be nothing.
3 And if all I have I make to feed the poor, and I deliver my body to burn, and love be not in me, I profit nothing.
4 LOVE is patient and benign; love envieth not; love is not tumultuous, nor inflated;
5 it acteth not with unseemliness, nor seeketh its own; it is not angry, nor thoughtful of evil;
6 it rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth.
7 It endureth every thing, believeth every thing; it hopeth all, endureth all.
8 Love never falleth;[Lo nophel.] for prophecies shall be abolished, and tongues be silent, and knowledge be abolished:
9 for it is a little of much that we know, and a little of much we prophesy;
10 but when the perfection shall have come, then shall be abolished that which is little.
11 When I was a child, as a child I spake, and as a child I thought, and as a child I reasoned; but when I had become a man I abolished these things of childhood.
12 But now as in a mirror we see in a figure;[Or, parable.] but then- the face before the face. Now I know a little of much; but then shall I know even as I am known.
13 For these are the three that remain, faith and hope and love; but the greatest of these is love.
14 1 Follow (then) after love, and be emulous of the gifts of the Spirit, but especially that you may prophesy.
2 For whoever speaketh in a tongue speaketh not to men but to Aloha; for man heareth nothing that he speaketh but in the Spirit he speaketh mysteries.
3 But he who prophesieth speaketh to men, edification and encouragement and consolation.
4 He who speaketh in a tongue himself edifieth, and he who prophesieth the church edifieth.
5 But I would that all of you could speak with tongues, but especially that you could prophesy. For greater is he who prophesieth than he who speaketh with tongues, unless he interpret. But if he interpret, he edifieth the church.
6 And now, my brethren, if I come to you and speak with you in tongues, what do I profit you, unless I speak with you, or by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophecy, or by doctrine?
7 For those [things] also which have no life in them, and give voice, whether pipe or harp, if distinction be not made between a tone and its fellow, how can it be known what is sung, or what is played?[Or, stricken.]
8 And if the trumpet call a voice which is not distinguished, who will prepare for the battle?
9 So you also, if you speak the word in a tongue, and there be no interpretation, how will it be known what you say? Will you not be as if speaking with the air?
10 For, behold, there are many kinds of tongues in the world, and not one of them hath not signification;[Voice.]
11 but if I do not know the power of the voice, I become as a barbarian to him who speaks, and he also who speaks is a barbarian to me.
12 So also you, while you are emulous of the gifts of the Spirit for the edification of the church, seek that you may excel.
13 And let him who speaketh with tongues pray that he may interpret.
14 For if I am praying in a tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my mind is without fruit.
15 What shall I do then? I will pray with my spirit, and I will pray with my mind; and I will sing with my spirit, and I will sing with my mind.
16 Otherwise, if thou bless with the spirit, how shall he who filleth the place of the unlearned [Hediuto.] say Amen to thy thanksgiving? for he knoweth not what thou sayest.
17 For thou blessest well, but thy neighbour is not edified.
18 I praise Aloha that more than all of you I speak with tongues;
19 but in the church I would rather speak five words with my mind, that others also may learn, than ten thousand words in a tongue.
20 MY brethren, be not children in your minds, but in evils be you babes, and in your minds be perfect.
21 In the law it is written, In a strange language and in another tongue will I speak with this people; yet so will they not hear me, saith the Lord.
22 Hence, tongues are appointed for a sign, not to the believing, but to those who believe not: but prophecy, not for those who believe not, but for those who believe.
23 If then all the church be assembled, and all of you speak with tongues, and the ignorant, or those who believe not enter, will they not say you are insane?
24 And if all should prophesy, and there come in to you the ignorant, or of those who believe not, he is convicted [Or, searched.] by you all, and reproved by you all;
25 and the secrets of his heart are revealed; and then will he fall upon his face and worship Aloha, and say, Truly Aloha is in you.
26 I say then, my brethren, that when you are assembled, if any one of you hath a psalm, let him speak; and (so too) he who hath doctrine, and he who hath a revelation, and he who hath a tongue, and he who hath the interpretation: let all be done unto edification.
27 And if with a tongue any one speak, two shall speak, or at most three, and each shall (separately) speak, and one interpret.
28 And if there be no one who interpreteth, let him who speaketh with a tongue be silent in the church, and between himself and Aloha let him speak.
29 Let the prophets speak, two or three, and let the rest discern.
30 And if [somewhat] to another be revealed while sitting, let the first be silent.
31 For one by one you can all prophesy, that each may learn, and each be edified.
32 For the spirit of the prophets to the prophets is subject.
33 Because Aloha is not of tumult, but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints.
34 LET your women in the church be silent; for it is not permitted to them to speak, but to be subject, as also saith the law.
35 But if any wish to learn, in their houses let them ask their husbands; for it is a shame for a woman to speak in the church.
36 Was it from you that the word of Aloha went forth? Or did it come only to you?
37 But if any man of you think that he is a prophet, or that he is spiritual,[Or, of the Spirit.] let him acknowledge these which I write to you to be the commandments of our Lord.
38 But if any man know not, let him not know.
39 Be emulous, therefore, my brethren, to prophesy, and to speak with tongues forbid not;
40 but let every thing be done with decency and in order.
15 1 BUT I make known to you, my brethren, the gospel which I have announced to you, and you have received, and in which you stand,
2 and by which you are saved; of which, the word I have preached to you, you are mindful, unless you have vainly believed.
3 For I delivered to you from the first, according as I had received: That the Meshiha died for our sins, as it is written;
4 and that he was buried, and arose the third day, as it is written.
5 And he was seen of Kipha, and after him, of the twelve,
6 and after them, he was seen of more than five hundred brethren together, many of whom survive [Or, are standing.] till now, and some of them have slept.
7 And afterward he was seen of Jakub, and after him of all the apostles:
8 but last of them all, as of an abortion, he was seen also of me.
9 I am the least of the apostles, and am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of Aloha:
10 but by the grace of Aloha I am what I am; and his grace in me was not in vain; but more than all have I laboured, (yet) not I, but his grace which is with me.
11 Whether I then, or they, so we have proclaimed, and so have you believed.
12 But if the Meshiha is proclaimed that he rose from the dead, how are there among you some who say that there is no life for the dead?
13 And if there be no life for the dead, (then) neither hath the Meshiha risen.
14 And if the Meshiha hath not risen, vain is our proclamation, and vain also your faith.
15 But we are also found false witnesses of Aloha; for we have testified of Aloha that he hath raised the Meshiha, while he hath not raised (him).
16 For if the dead rise not, Meshiha also hath not risen
17 and if Meshiha hath not risen, your faith is made void and you are still in your sins.
18 And already have they too who have slept in Meshiha perished.
19 And if in this life only we hope in the Meshiha, more miserable are we than all men.
20 BUT now hath the Meshiha risen from among the dead, and become the first-fruits of those who sleep.
21 And as by man was death, so also by man is the life of the dead.
22 For as in Adam all men die, so also in the Meshiha are all made alive:
23 every one in his order: the first-fruits was the Meshiha; afterward they who are of the Meshiha at his coming.
24 And then will be the end, when he delivereth the kingdom unto Aloha the Father; when he abolisheth every head, and all authority and all powers.
25 For it is to be that he shall reign until he hath set all his adversaries beneath his feet,
26 and the last enemy be abolished, (which is) death.
27 For every thing he subjecteth beneath his feet. But when he saith that every thing is subjected to him, it is evident that (it is) with the exception of him who hath subjected to him all.
28 And when all shall have been subjected to him, then the Son himself will be subjected to him who had made subject to him all, that Aloha may be all in all.
29 Else what shall they do who are baptized for the dead, if the dead arise not? Why are they baptized for the dead?
30 And why also every hour are we standing in peril?
31 I asseverate, by your glorying, my brethren, which is mine in our Lord Jeshu Meshiha, that daily I die!
32 If as among men I have been thrown to beasts at Ephesus, what have I profited if the dead do not arise? Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die...
33 Mistake not; for evil narrations corrupt well-disposed [Reyonee basimee.] minds.
34 AWAKEN your hearts rightly, and sin not; for there are some who have not the knowledge of Aloha; to your shame I say it.
35 Some one of you will say, How arise the dead, and with what body come they?
36 Fool, the seed which thou sowest, unless it die, lives not:
37 and that thing which thou sowest is not the body that is to be, but thou sowest naked grain, of wheat, or of barley, or of the rest of seeds;
38 but Aloha giveth it a body as he willeth, and to each of the seeds a body of its own nature.
39 For every body is not alike:[Or, equal.] for there is one body of man, and another of the beast, and another of the fowl, and another of fishes.
40 There are heavenly bodies, and there are earthly bodies; but one is the glory of the heavenly, and another of the earthly.
41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; and star excelleth star in glory.
42 So also is the life of the dead. They are sown in corruption, they arise without corruption.
43 They are sown in baseness, they arise in glory. They are sown in weakness, they arise in power.
44 It is sown an animal body, it ariseth a body spiritual. For there is a body of the animal,* and there is a body of the spirit; [* Phagro da-nephesh, body of the animal life.]
45 as also it is written, Adam the first man became a living soul, and the last Adam a life-giving spirit.
46 But the spiritual was not first, but the animal; and then the spiritual.
47 The first man who is of the earth is dust, the second man the Lord from heaven.
48 As was he who was dust, so also are they who are dust: as is he who is from heaven, so also are the heavenly ones.
49 And as we have worn the likeness of him who was dust, so shall we wear the likeness of him who is from heaven.
50 But this I say, my brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of heaven; nor doth corruption inherit incorruption.
51 Behold, I tell you the mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we all shall be changed:
52 suddenly, as in the twinkling of the eye, at the last trumpet, while it calleth; and the dead will arise without corruption, and we shall be changed.
53 For this which is corruptible shall put on incorruption, and likewise (this) which dieth shall put on immortality.
54 But when this which is corruptible shall put on incorruptibleness, and this which dieth, immortality, then shall be done that word which is written, Death is swallowed up in victory!
55 Where is thy sting, Death? and where is thy victory Shiul?
56 But the sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law.
57 But thanks be to Aloha, who giveth us the victory by the hand of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha.
58 Wherefore, my brethren, my beloved, be steadfast, be not moved, but be abounding in all time in the work of the Lord, while you know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
16 1 BUT concerning what is [to be] collected for the saints, as I have instructed the churches of Galatia, so also do you.
2 On each first day of the week let every one of you at his own house lay by and keep something of that which cometh unto his hands, lest when I come there be then collections.[Or, choosings, selections.]
3 And when I come, those whom you shall choose, them will I send with an epistle, that they may take your bounty to Urishlem.
4 But if it be a fit work that I too go (thither), they also shall go with me.
5 But I will come to you when I shall have passed (round) from Makedunia: for I pass unto it, unto Makedunia.
6 And perhaps also I may remain with you, or I may winter with you, that you may lead me on to the place to which I shall go.
7 For I will not now see you as I pass the way; for I hope to abide a time with you, if my Lord permit me.
8 For I remain at Ephesos until the Pentecost.
9 For a great door is opened to me, which is full of labours, and the opposers are many.
10 But if Timotheos come among you, see that he may be with you without fear; for he doeth the work of the Lord, as I [do].
11 Wherefore let no man despise him, but conduct him in peace, that he may come to me; for I wait for him with the brethren.
12 But of Apolo, my brethren, I begged much to come to you with the brethren; nevertheless it was not his will to come to you; but when there shall be opportunity he will come to you.
13 WATCH, and stand in the faith; be manful and be strong.
14 And let all your affairs be done in love.
15 But I entreat of you, my brethren, for the house of Stephano, because you know they are the first-fruits of Akaia, and have disposed themselves for the service of the saints,
16 that you be submissive to such as they, and to every one who laboureth with us and helpeth.
17 But I am glad of the coming of Stephano, and of Fortunatos, and of Akaiakos, because your deficiency with me they have fulfilled.
18 For they have refreshed my spirit and yours. Wherefore acknowledge those who are such.
19 All the churches of Asia ask for your peace; Akilos and Priskila, with the church which is in their house, ask for your peace greatly in our Lord.
20 All the brethren ask for your peace. Ask the peace of one another with the holy kiss.
21 Peace, by the writing of my hand, of PAULOS.
22 Whosoever loveth not our Lord Jeshu Meshiha, let him be accursed. Our Lord cometh.
23 The grace of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha be with you.
24 And my love be with you all in the Meshiha Jeshu Amen.