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Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking. Instead, be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.

So then, tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers. Prophecy, however, is not for unbelievers but for believers.

But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or uninformed person enters, he will be convicted by all, he will be called to account by all.

But if there is no interpreter, he should be silent in the church. Let him speak to himself and to God.

for God is not characterized by disorder but by peace. As in all the churches of the saints,

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me has not been in vain. In fact, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God with me.

But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised.

But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.

But each in his own order: Christ, the firstfruits; then when Christ comes, those who belong to him.

For he has put everything in subjection under his feet . But when it says "everything" has been put in subjection, it is clear that this does not include the one who put everything in subjection to him.

But someone will say, "How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?"

And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare seed—perhaps of wheat or something else.

But God gives it a body just as he planned, and to each of the seeds a body of its own.

However, the spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and then the spiritual.

Listen, I will tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—

But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!

But I will come to you after I have gone through Macedonia—for I will be going through Macedonia—

But I will stay in Ephesus until Pentecost,

because a door of great opportunity stands wide open for me, but there are many opponents.

So then, let no one treat him with contempt. But send him on his way in peace so that he may come to me. For I am expecting him with the brothers.