CAB(i)
1 Pursue love, and desire the spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.
2 For he who speaks in an unknown tongue speaks not to men, but to God, for no one understands him; however, in the spirit he speaks mysteries.
3 But he who prophesies speaks edification and exhortation and comfort.
4 He who speaks in an unknown tongue edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the church.
5 Now I wish you all spoke in tongues, but even more that you should prophesy; for he who prophesies is greater than he who speaks in tongues, unless he interprets, so that the church may receive edification.
6 But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking in tongues, what shall I profit you unless I speak to you either in a revelation, or in knowledge, or in a prophesy, or in doctrine?
7 Likewise the lifeless things, when they make a sound, whether flute or harp, unless they make a distinction in the tones, how will it be known what is being played on the flute, or what is being played on the harp?
8 For if the trumpet gives an indistinct sound, who will prepare for battle?
9 So also you, if you do not give a clear word by the tongue, how will it be known what is being spoken? For you will be speaking into the air.
10 There are, perhaps, so many kinds of sounds in the world, and none of them without meaning.
11 Therefore, if I do not know the meaning of the sound, I shall be as a foreigner to the one speaking, and the one speaking shall be as a foreigner to me.
12 So also you, since you are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that you may abound to the edification of the church.
13 Therefore let he that speaks in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret.
14 For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful.
15 What is the conclusion then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will also pray with the mind. I will sing with the spirit, and I will also sing with the mind.
16 Otherwise, if you bless with the spirit, how will he who occupies the place of the uninformed say "Amen" when you give thanks, since he does not know what you are saying?
17 For you indeed give thanks well, but the other is not edified.
18 I thank my God I speak with tongues more than you all;
19 but in the church I would rather speak five words with my understanding, in order that I may instruct others, rather than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.
20 Brothers, do not be children in your understanding; rather, in malice be children, but in understanding be men.
21 In the law it is written: "With men of other tongues and by strange lips I will speak to this people; and yet not even in this way will they hear Me," says the Lord.
22 So then tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe but to unbelievers; but prophesying is not for unbelievers but for those who believe.
23 If then the whole church comes together at the same place, and all speak in tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned or unbelievers, will they not say that you are mad?
24 But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or an unlearned person comes in, he is reproved by all, he is discerned by all.
25 And so the secrets of his heart become clear; and so, falling down on his face, he will worship God, reporting that God is truly among you!
26 What is it then, brothers? Whenever you come together, each of you has a song, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification.
27 If anyone speaks in an unknown tongue, let it be by two or at the most three, each in turn, and let one interpret.
28 But if there is no interpreter, let him be silent in church, and let him speak to himself and to God.
29 Let two or three prophets speak, and let others discriminate.
30 But if something is revealed to another who sits by, let the first be silent.
31 For you can all prophesy one by one, that all may learn and all may be encouraged.
32 And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.
33 For God is not the author of confusion but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints,
34 let your women be silent in the churches, for it has not been permitted for them to speak, but to be in subjection, just as the law also says.
35 And if they desire to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home; for it is shameful for women to speak in church.
36 Or did the word of God go forth from you? Or did it come to you only?
37 If anyone thinks that he is a prophet, or is spiritual, let him recognize that the things which I am writing to you are the commandments of the Lord.
38 But if anyone is ignorant, let him be ignorant.
39 Therefore, brothers, seek to prophesy, and do not forbid to speak in tongues.
40 Let all things be done properly and according to order.
15 1 Now I made known to you, brothers, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand,
2 through which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you--unless you believed in vain.
3 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
4 and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,
5 and that He appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.
6 Thereafter He appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, of whom the majority remain until now, but some have died.
7 Thereafter He appeared to James, then to all the apostles.
8 And last of all, as of one born out of due time, He appeared to me also.
9 For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than them all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
11 Therefore, whether it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.
12 Now if Christ is preached that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised.
14 And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain and your faith also is vain!
15 And we are found to be false witnesses of God, because we bore witness concerning God, that He raised Christ, whom He did not raise--if in fact the dead are not raised.
16 For if the dead are not raised, then neither has Christ been raised.
17 And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins!
18 Then also those who have died in Christ have perished.
19 If in this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable.
20 But now Christ has been raised from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of those who have died.
21 For since by a man death came, also by a Man comes the resurrection of the dead.
22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all will be made alive.
23 But each one in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then those who belong to Christ at His coming.
24 Then will be the end, when He hands over the kingdom to God, even the Father, when He abolishes every ruler and every authority and power.
25 For He must reign till He puts all His enemies under His feet.
26 The last enemy that will be abolished is death.
27 For "He has subjected all things under His feet." But when He says that "all things have been subjected," it is evident that this is except for Him who subjected all things to Him.
28 Now when all things are made subject to Him, then also the Son Himself will be subjected to Him who subjected all things to Him, in order that God may be all in all.
29 Otherwise, what will they do who are being baptized for the dead, if the dead are not raised at all? Why are they also baptized for the dead?
30 And why are we also in danger every hour?
31 I affirm, by my boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.
32 If, in the manner of men, I fought with beasts at Ephesus, what is the benefit to me? If the dead are not raised, "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!"
33 Do not be deceived: "Evil associations corrupts good habits."
34 Awake to righteousness, and do not sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.
35 But someone will say, "How are the dead raised? And with what sort of body do they come?"
36 Fool, what you sow is not made alive unless it dies.
37 And what you sow, you do not sow that body that will be, but a bare grain--perhaps wheat or some other grains.
38 But God gives to it a body just as He desired, and to each of the seeds its own body.
39 All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is a different kind of flesh for men, and another flesh for beasts, another for fish, and another for birds.
40 And there are celestial bodies, and terrestrial bodies; but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.
41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differs from another star in glory.
42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption.
43 It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power.
44 It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
45 Thus also it is written, "The first man Adam became a living soul;" the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
46 However, that which is spiritual is not first, but that which is natural, then that which is spiritual.
47 The first man was from earth, made of dust; the second Man is the Lord from heaven.
48 Like the man made of dust, so also are those who are made of dust; and as is the heavenly Man, so also are those who are heavenly.
49 And just as we have borne the image of the man made of dust, let us also bear the image of the heavenly Man.
50 Now this I say, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor can corruption inherit incorruption.
51 Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all die, but we shall all be changed--
52 in a moment, 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.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
54 So when this corruptible should put on incorruption, and this mortal should put on immortality, then will come to pass the word which was written: "Death was swallowed up in victory."
55 "O Death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory?"
56 Now the sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
58 So then, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
16 1 Now concerning the collection which is for the saints, as I directed to the churches of Galatia, so you must do also:
2 On the first day of the week let each one of you put something aside, storing up whatever he may prosper, in order that there be no collections when I come.
3 But when I arrive, those whom ever you approve by letters, these I will send to carry your gracious gift to Jerusalem.
4 But if it is fitting that I go also, they will go with me.
5 Now I will come to you when I go through Macedonia (for I am coming through Macedonia).
6 And perhaps I will remain, or even spend the winter with you, that you may send me on my journey, wherever I may go.
7 For I do not wish to see you now in passing; but I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord permits.
8 But I will remain in Ephesus until Pentecost.
9 For a great and effective door has been opened to me, and there are many adversaries.
10 Now if Timothy comes, see to it that he may be with you without fear; for he does the work of the Lord, as I also do.
11 Therefore let no one despise him. But send him away in peace, that he may come to me; for I am waiting for him with the brothers.
12 Now concerning our brother Apollos, I strongly urged him to come to you with the brothers, but it was not his will to come at this time; however, he will come whenever he has an opportunity.
13 Watch, stand fast in the faith, be courageous, be strong.
14 Let all that you do be done in love.
15 I urge you, brothers (you know the household of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves to the ministry of the saints)
16 that you also subject yourselves to such people and to everyone who works and labors with us.
17 I rejoice over the coming of Stephanas, Fortunatus, and Achaicus, for what was lacking on your part they have supplied.
18 For they refreshed my spirit and yours. Therefore give recognition to such men.
19 The churches of Asia greet you. Aquila and Priscilla greet you heartily in the Lord, together with the church that is in their house.
20 All the brothers greet you. Greet one another with a holy kiss.
21 The salutation with my own hand--Paul's.
22 If anyone does not love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema. Marana tha!
23 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
24 My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.