Ħ Now, brothers, 1 if I come to you speaking in tongues, how will I benefit you unless I bring you some y revelation or knowledge or prophecy or z teaching ? 7 If even lifeless instruments, such as the flute or the harp, do not give distinct notes, how will anyone know what is played ? 8 And a if the bugle gives an indistinct sound, who will get ready for battle ? 9 So with yourselves, if with your tongue you utter speech that is not intelligible, how will anyone know what is said ? For you will be b speaking into the air. The one who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongues, unless someone interprets, so that the church may be built up. 5 Now I want you all to speak in tongues, but x even more to prophesy. 4 The one who speaks in a tongue builds up himself, but the one who prophesies builds up the church. 3 On the other hand, the one who prophesies speaks to people for their upbuilding and encouragement and consolation. 2 For w one who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men but to God for no one understands him, but he utters mysteries in the Spirit. Prophecy and Tonguesġ4 s Pursue love, and t earnestly desire the u spiritual gifts, especially that you may v prophesy. ġ3 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three but the greatest of these is love. Now I know in part then I shall know fully, even as r I have been fully known. 12 For p now we see in a mirror dimly, but q then face to face. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. 9 For n we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but o when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. As for prophecies, they will pass away as for tongues, they will cease as for knowledge, it will pass away. 7 m Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, e endures all things. It i does not insist on its own way it j is not irritable or resentful 2 6 it k does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but l rejoices with the truth. Ĥ e Love is patient and f kind love g does not envy or boast it h is not arrogant 5 or rude. 3 c If I give away all I have, and d if I deliver up my body to be burned, 1 but have not love, I gain nothing. 2 And if I have a prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, b so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 13 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
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