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For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding is barren.

but in the Church I would rather speak five words with my understanding--so as to instruct others also--than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.

Brethren, do not prove yourselves to be children in your minds. As regards evil, indeed, be utter babes, but as regards your minds prove yourselves to be men of ripe years.

In the Law it stands written, "`By men of unknown tongues and by the lips of an unknown nation will I speak to this People, but even then they will not listen to Me', says the Lord."

This shows that the gift of tongues is intended as a sign not to those who believe but to unbelievers, but prophecy is intended not for unbelievers but for those who believe.

But if there are Prophets, let two or three speak and let the rest judge.

For God is not a God of disorder, but of peace, as He is in all the Churches of His people.

But if any one is ignorant, let him be ignorant.

But let me recall to you, brethren, the Good News which I brought you, which you accepted, and on which you are standing,

But what I am I am by the grace of God, and His grace bestowed upon me did not prove ineffectual. But I labored more strenuously than all the rest--yet it was not I, but God's grace working with me.

But whether it is I or they, this is the way we preach and the way that you came to believe.

But if Christ is preached as having risen from the dead, how is it that some of you say that there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead?

But, in reality, Christ *has* risen from among the dead, being the first to do so of those who are asleep.

But this will happen to each in the right order--Christ having been the first to rise, and afterwards Christ's people rising at His return.

But when the whole universe has been made subject to Him, then the Son Himself will also become subject to Him who has made the universe subject to Him, in order that GOD may be all in all.

But some one will say, "How can the dead rise? And with what kind of body do they come back?"

and as for what you sow, it is not the plant which is to be that you are sowing, but a bare grain, of wheat (it may be) or of something else, and God gives it a body as He has seen fit,

There are bodies which are celestial and there are bodies which are earthly, but the glory of the celestial ones is one thing, and that of the earthly ones is another.

Nevertheless, it is not what is spiritual that came first, but what is animal; what is spiritual came afterwards.

But this I tell you, brethren: our mortal bodies cannot inherit the Kingdom of God, nor will what is perishable inherit what is imperishable.