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For if the trumpet produces an indistinct sound, who will prepare himself for battle?

So also you, unless you utter by the tongue a word that is clear, how will it be known what is spoken? For you will be speaking into the air.

So also you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, seek to abound for the edification of the church.

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

For you are giving thanks well enough, but the other person is not edified.

So then tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe but to unbelievers; but prophecy is for a sign not to unbelievers but to those who believe.

What is the outcome then, brothers? When you assemble, each one has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has a tongue, has a translation. Let all things be done for edification.

For you can all prophesy one by one, so that all may learn and all may be exhorted.

for God is not a God of confusion but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints.

The women are to keep silent in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak, but are to subject themselves, just as the Law also says.

But if they desire to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in church.

by which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word which I proclaimed to you as good news, unless you believed for nothing.

For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

For I am the least of the apostles, and not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised.

For since by a man came death, by a man also came the resurrection of the dead.

For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

For He must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet.

For He has put all things in subjection under His feet. But when He says, "All things are put in subjection," it is evident that He is excepted who put all things in subjection to Him.

Otherwise, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why then are they baptized for them?