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but if I don't know what a person's sounds mean, I will be a foreigner to the speaker and the speaker will be a foreigner to me.

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

So, what about it? I will pray with my spirit, but I will also pray with my mind; I will sing with my spirit, but I will also sing with my mind.

For undoubtedly you are giving thanks very nicely, but the other person is not being edified.

but in a congregation meeting I would rather say five words with my mind in order to instruct others than ten thousand words in a tongue!

Brothers, don't be children in your thinking. In evil, be like infants; but in your thinking, be grown-up.

In the Torah it is written, "By other tongues, by the lips of foreigners I will speak to this people. But even then they will not listen to me," says Adonai .

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

But if you all prophesy, and some unbeliever or uninstructed person enters, he is convicted of sin by all, he is brought under judgment by all,

What is our conclusion, brothers? Whenever you come together, let everyone be ready with a psalm or a teaching or a revelation, or ready to use his gift of tongues or give an interpretation; but let everything be for edification.

for God is not a God of unruliness but of shalom. As in all the congregations of God's people,

But if someone doesn't recognize this, then let him remain unrecognized.

but let all things be done in a proper and orderly way.

But by God's grace I am what I am, and his grace towards me was not in vain; on the contrary, I have worked harder than all of them, although it was not I but the grace of God with me.

But if it has been proclaimed that the Messiah has been raised from the dead, how is it that some of you are saying there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead?

But the fact is that the Messiah has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have died.

But each in his own order: the Messiah is the firstfruits; then those who belong to the Messiah, at the time of his coming;

for "He put everything in subjection under his feet." But when it says that "everything" has been subjected, obviously the word does not include God, who is himself the one subjecting everything to the Messiah.

But someone will ask, "In what manner are the dead raised? What sort of body do they have?"

Also, what you sow is not the body that will be, but a bare seed of, say, wheat or something else;