LITV(i)
1 Pursue love, and seek eagerly the spiritual things, but rather that you may prophesy.
2 For the one speaking in a tongue does not speak to men, but to God, for no one hears, but in spirit he speaks mysteries.
3 But the one prophesying to men speaks for building up, and encouragement, and comfort.
4 The one speaking in a tongue builds himself up, but he prophesying builds up a church.
5 And I wish all of you to speak in languages, but rather that you may prophesy. For the one prophesying is greater than the one speaking in tongues, unless he interpret that the church may receive building up.
6 But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking in tongues, what will I profit you, except I speak to you either in revelation, or in knowledge, or in prophecy, or in teaching?
7 Yet lifeless things giving a sound, whether flute or harp, if they do not give a distinction in the sound, how will it be known what is being piped or harped?
8 For also if a trumpet gives an uncertain sound, who will get himself ready for war?
9 So also you, if you do not give a clear word through the language, how will it be known what is being said? For you will be speaking into air.
10 So it may be many kinds of sounds are in the world, and not one is without distinct sound.
11 If, then, I do not know the power of the sound, I will be a foreigner to the one speaking, and he speaking in me a foreigner.
12 So also you, since you are zealots of spiritual things, seek to build up the church that you may abound.
13 So then, the one speaking in a language, let him pray that he may interpret.
14 For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful.
15 What then is it? 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 Else, if you bless in the spirit, the one occupying the place of the unlearned, how will he say the amen at your giving of thanks, since he does not know what you say?
17 For you truly give thanks well, but the other is not built up.
18 I thank my God that I speak more languages than all of you.
19 But in a church I desire to speak five words with my mind, that I may also instruct others, than myriads of words in a foreign language.
20 Brothers, do not be children in your minds, but in malice be like infants, and in your minds be mature.
21 It has been written in the Law, "By other tongues" and "by other lips" "I will speak to this people," "and even so they will not hear" Me, says the Lord." Isa. 28:11, 12
22 So that tongues are not a sign to those believing, but to those not believing. But prophecy is not to those not believing, but to those believing.
23 Then if the whole church comes together, and all speak in languages, and uninstructed ones or unbelievers come in, will they not say that you rave?
24 But if all prophesy, and some unbeliever or one not instructed comes in, he is convicted by all, he is judged by all.
25 And so the secrets of his heart become revealed; and so, falling on his face, he will worship God, declaring that God is truly among you.
26 Then what is it, brothers? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, he has a teaching, he has a language, he has a revelation, he has an interpretation. Let all things be for building up.
27 If one speaks in a language, let it be by two or three at the most, and in turn, also let one interpret.
28 And if there is no interpreter, let him be silent in church, and let him speak to himself and to God.
29 And if there are two or three prophets, let them speak, and let the others discern.
30 But if a revelation is revealed to another sitting 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 prophets are subject to prophets.
33 For God is not God of confusion, but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints.
34 Let your women be silent in the churches, for it is not allowed to them to speak, but to be in subjection, as also the Law says.
35 But if they desire to learn anything, let them question their husbands at home; for it is a shame for a woman to speak in a church.
36 Or did the Word of God go out from you? Or did it reach only to you?
37 If anyone thinks to be a prophet, or a spiritual one, let him recognize the things I write to you, that they are a command of the Lord.
38 But if any be ignorant, let him be ignorant.
39 So then, brothers, seek eagerly to prophesy, and do not forbid to speak in languages.
40 And let all things be done decently and in order.
15 1 But, brothers, I reveal to you the gospel which I preached to you, which you also received, in which you also stand,
2 by which you also are being kept safe, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain.
3 For I delivered to you in the first place what I also received, that Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures,
4 and that He was buried, and that He was raised the third day, according to the Scriptures,
5 and that He appeared to Peter, and then to the Twelve.
6 Then He appeared to over five hundred brothers at once, of whom the most remain until now, but some also fell asleep.
7 Then He was seen by James, then by all the apostles;
8 and last of all, even as if to one born out of time, He was also seen by me.
9 For I am the least of the apostles, who am not sufficient 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 which was toward me has not been without fruit, but I labored more abundantly than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God with me.
11 Then whether they or I, so we preach, and so you believed.
12 But if Christ is proclaimed, that He was raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is not a resurrection of the dead?
13 But if there is not a resurrection of the dead, neither has Christ been raised.
14 But if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation is worthless, and your faith is also worthless.
15 And also we are found to be false witnesses of God, because we witnessed as to God that He raised Christ, whom He did not raise, if then dead ones are not raised.
16 For if the dead are not raised, Christ has not been raised.
17 But if Christ has not been raised, your faith is foolish; you are still in your sins.
18 And then those that fell asleep in Christ were lost.
19 If we only have hope in Christ in this life, we are of all men most miserable.
20 But now Christ has been raised from the dead; He became the firstfruit of those having fallen asleep.
21 For since death is through man, also through a Man is a resurrection of the dead;
22 for as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.
23 But each in his own order: Christ, the firstfruit, afterward those of Christ at His coming.
24 Then is the end, when He delivers the kingdom to God, even the Father, when He makes to cease all rule and all authority and power.
25 for it is right for Him to reign until He puts all the enemies under His feet; Psa. 110:1
26 the last enemy made to cease is death.
27 For "He subjected all things under His feet;" but when He says that all things have been subjected, it is plain that it excepts Him who has subjected all things to Him. Psa. 8:6
28 But when all things are subjected to Him, then the Son Himself also will be subjected to the One who has subjected all things to Him, that God may be all things in all.
29 Otherwise, what will they do, those being baptized on behalf of the dead? If the dead are not at all raised, why indeed are they baptized on behalf of the dead?
30 Why are we also in danger every hour?
31 Day by day I die, by your boasting, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.
32 If according to man I fought with beasts in Ephesus, what the profit to me if the dead are not raised? ("Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.") Isa. 22:13
33 Do not be led astray; bad companionships ruin good habits.
34 Be righteously awake, and do not sin; for some have ignorance of God. I speak to your shame.
35 But someone will say, How are the dead raised? And with what body do they come?
36 Foolish one! What you sow is not made alive unless it dies.
37 And what you sow, you do not sow the body that is going to be, but a bare grain, (it may be of wheat, or of some of the rest),
38 and God gives it a body according as He willed, and to each of the seeds its own body.
39 Not every flesh is the same flesh, but one flesh of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another of fish, and another of birds.
40 And there are heavenly bodies, and earthly bodies. But the glory of the heavenly is truly different, and that of the earthly different;
41 one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory.
42 So also the resurrection of the dead. It 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 So also it has been written, "The" first "man", Adam, "became a living soul;" the last Adam a life-giving Spirit. Gen. 2:7
46 But not the spiritual first, but the natural; afterward the spiritual.
47 The first man was out of earth, earthy. The second Man was the Lord out of Heaven. Gen. 2:7
48 Such the earthy man, such also the earthy ones. And such the heavenly Man, such also the heavenly ones.
49 And as we bore the image of the earthy man, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man .
50 And I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood is not able to inherit the kingdom of God, nor does corruption inherit incorruption.
51 Behold, I speak a mystery to you: we shall not all fall asleep, but we shall all be changed.
52 In a moment, in a glance of an eye, at the last trumpet; for a trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall all be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
54 But when this corruptible shall put on incorruption, and this mortal shall put on immortality, then will take place the word that has been written, "Death was swallowed up in victory." Isa. 25:8
55 "O death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?" Hos. 13:14
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 that, my beloved brothers, you be firm, immovable, abounding in the work of the Lord always, knowing that your labor is not without fruit in the Lord.
16 1 And about the collection for the saints, as I charged the churches of Galatia, so also you do.
2 On the first of a week, let each of you put by himself, storing up whatever he is prospered, that there not be collections then when I come.
3 And when I arrive, whomever you approve through these epistles, I will send to carry your grace to Jerusalem.
4 And if it is suitable for me to go also, they shall go with me.
5 But I will come to you when I go through Macedonia. For I am going through Macedonia.
6 And possibly I will stay with you, or even spend the winter, that you may set me forward wherever I may go.
7 For I do not desire to see you now in passage, but I am hoping to remain some time with you, if the Lord permits.
8 But I will remain in Ephesus until Pentecost.
9 For a door opened to me, great and effective, and many are opposing.
10 But if Timothy comes, see that he is with you without fear; for he works the work of the Lord, even as I.
11 Then do not let any despise him, but set him forward in peace, that he may come to me; for I am waiting for him with the brothers.
12 And concerning the brother Apollos, I much urged him that he come to you with the brothers, but it was not altogether his will that he come now. But he will come when he has opportunity.
13 Watch! Stand fast in the faith! Be men! Be strong!
14 Let all your things be in love.
15 But I exhort you, brothers. You know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruit of Achaia, and they appointed themselves to ministry to the saints.
16 See that you also may submit to such ones, and to everyone working and laboring with me .
17 And I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas, and of Fortunatus and Achaicus, because these supplied your lack.
18 For they refreshed my spirit and yours. Then recognize such ones.
19 The churches of Asia greet you. Aquila and Priscilla much greet you in the Lord, with the church in their house.
20 The brothers all greet you. Greet one another with a holy kiss.
21 The greeting with my hand, Paul.
22 If anyone does not love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be a curse. The Lord comes!
23 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
24 My love be with all of you in Christ Jesus. Amen.