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And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth.

Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end.

but when the complete comes, the partial will come to an end.

For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known.

For those who speak in a tongue do not speak to other people but to God; for nobody understands them, since they are speaking mysteries in the Spirit.

Those who speak in a tongue build up themselves, but those who prophesy build up the church.

Now I would like all of you to speak in tongues, but even more to prophesy. One who prophesies is greater than one who speaks in tongues, unless someone interprets, so that the church may be built up.

For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays but my mind is unproductive.

What should I do then? I will pray with the spirit, but I will pray with the mind also; I will sing praise with the spirit, but I will sing praise with the mind also.

For you may give thanks well enough, but the other person is not built up.

Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking; rather, be infants in evil, but in thinking be adults.

Tongues, then, are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers, while prophecy is not for unbelievers but for believers.

But if all prophesy, an unbeliever or outsider who enters is reproved by all and called to account by all.

But if there is no one to interpret, let them be silent in church and speak to themselves and to God.

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

women should be silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be subordinate, as the law also says.

but all things should be done decently and in order.

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me has not been in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them—though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.