less honorable we treat with the greater honor, and our unpresentable
parts are treated with greater modesty, 24 while our more presentable
members have no need of it. But God has so composed the body, giving
the greater honor to the parts that lacked it, 25 so that there may be no
division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one
another. 26 And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; if
one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.
27 Now you are the body of Christ, and individually members of
it. 28 And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second
prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles, then those having gifts
of healings, helps, administrations, and those speaking in various kinds of
tongues. 29 Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all
work miracles? 30 Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak with
tongues? Do all interpret? 31 But earnestly desire the greater gifts.
13
And I will show you a still more excellent way. 1 If I speak in
the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or
a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all
mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove
mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I have to the
poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain
nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous or boastful, it is
not arrogant 5 or rude, it does not seek its own, it is not provoked, it
keeps no record of wrongs, 6 it does not rejoice in evil, but rejoices with
the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things,
endures all things.
8 Love never fails; but where there are prophecies, they will
cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is
knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in
part; 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11 When I
was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a
child; when I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. 12 For now
we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but
then I shall know fullyóeven as I have been fully known. 13 So now
faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
14
1 Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially
that you may prophesy. 2 For one who speaks in a tongue does not speak
to men but to God; for no one understands him, but in his spirit he speaks
mysteries. 3 But everyone who prophesies speaks to men for their
edification and encouragement and comfort. 4 He who speaks in a tongue
edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the church. 5 Now I want
you all to speak in tongues, but even more that you would prophesy. He
who prophesies is greater than he who speaks in tongues, unless some
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