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but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.

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

So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

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.

The one who speaks in a tongue builds up himself, but the one who prophesies builds up the church.

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

but if I do not know the meaning of the language, I will 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.

What am I to do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will pray with my mind also; I will sing praise with my spirit, but I will sing with my mind also.

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

Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.

Thus tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers, while prophecy is a sign 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 silent 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 silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, 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 was not 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.

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

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