Study Desk

For 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.

He who speaks in a tongue edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the church.

Now I want you all to speak in tongues, but even more to prophesy. He who prophesies is greater than he who speaks in tongues, unless some one interprets, so that the church may be edified.

but if I do not know the meaning of the language, I shall be a foreigner to the speaker and the speaker a foreigner to me.

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

For you may give thanks well enough, but the other man is not edified.

Brethren, do not be children in your thinking; be babes in evil, but in thinking be mature.

Thus, tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers, while prophecy is not for unbelievers but for believers.

But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or outsider enters, he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all,

But if there is no one to interpret, let each of them keep silence in church and speak to himself and to God.

For God is not a God of confusion but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints,

the women should keep silence in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be subordinate, as even the law 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 was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God which is with me.

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

But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep.

But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ.

"For God has put all things in subjection under his feet." But when it says, "All things are put in subjection under him," it is plain that he is excepted who put all things under him.

But some one will ask, "How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?"

And what you sow is not the body which is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain.