as I also in all things do please all, not seeking my own profit, but that of many — that they may be saved.
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1 Corinthians
Followers of me become ye, as I also [am] of Christ.
And I praise you, brethren, that in all things ye remember me, and according as I did deliver to you, the deliverances ye keep,
and I wish you to know that of every man the head is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the husband, and the head of Christ is God.
Every man praying or prophesying, having the head covered, doth dishonour his head,
and every woman praying or prophesying with the head uncovered, doth dishonour her own head, for it is one and the same thing with her being shaven,
for if a woman is not covered — then let her be shorn, and if [it is] a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven — let her be covered;
for a man, indeed, ought not to cover the head, being the image and glory of God, and a woman is the glory of a man,
for a man is not of a woman, but a woman [is] of a man,
for a man also was not created because of the woman, but a woman because of the man;
because of this the woman ought to have [a token of] authority upon the head, because of the messengers;
but neither [is] a man apart from a woman, nor a woman apart from a man, in the Lord,
for as the woman [is] of the man, so also the man [is] through the woman, and the all things [are] of God.
In your own selves judge ye; is it seemly for a woman uncovered to pray to God?
doth not even nature itself teach you, that if a man indeed have long hair, a dishonour it is to him?
and a woman, if she have long hair, a glory it is to her, because the hair instead of a covering hath been given to her;
and if any one doth think to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the assemblies of God.
And this declaring, I give no praise, because not for the better, but for the worse ye come together;
for first, indeed, ye coming together in an assembly, I hear of divisions being among you, and partly I believe [it],
for it behoveth sects also to be among you, that those approved may become manifest among you;
ye, then, coming together at the same place — it is not to eat the Lord's supper;
for each his own supper doth take before in the eating, and one is hungry, and another is drunk;
why, have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or the assembly of God do ye despise, and shame those not having? what may I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I do not praise!
For I — I received from the Lord that which also I did deliver to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which he was delivered up, took bread,
and having given thanks, he brake, and said, 'Take ye, eat ye, this is my body, that for you is being broken; this do ye — to the remembrance of me.'
In like manner also the cup after the supping, saying, 'This cup is the new covenant in my blood; this do ye, as often as ye may drink [it] — to the remembrance of me;'
for as often as ye may eat this bread, and this cup may drink, the death of the Lord ye do shew forth — till he may come;
so that whoever may eat this bread or may drink the cup of the Lord unworthily, guilty he shall be of the body and blood of the Lord:
and let a man be proving himself, and so of the bread let him eat, and of the cup let him drink;
for he who is eating and drinking unworthily, judgment to himself he doth eat and drink — not discerning the body of the Lord.
Because of this, among you many [are] weak and sickly, and sleep do many;
for if ourselves we were discerning, we would not be being judged,
and being judged by the Lord, we are chastened, that with the world we may not be condemned;
so then, my brethren, coming together to eat, for one another wait ye;
and if any one is hungry, at home let him eat, that to judgment ye may not come together; and the rest, whenever I may come, I shall arrange.
And concerning the spiritual things, brethren, I do not wish you to be ignorant;
ye have known that ye were nations, unto the dumb idols — as ye were led — being carried away;
wherefore, I give you to understand that no one, in the Spirit of God speaking, saith Jesus [is] anathema, and no one is able to say Jesus [is] Lord, except in the Holy Spirit.
And there are diversities of gifts, and the same Spirit;
and there are diversities of ministrations, and the same Lord;
and there are diversities of workings, and it is the same God — who is working the all in all.
And to each hath been given the manifestation of the Spirit for profit;
for to one through the Spirit hath been given a word of wisdom, and to another a word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit;
and to another faith in the same Spirit, and to another gifts of healings in the same Spirit;
and to another in-workings of mighty deeds; and to another prophecy; and to another discernings of spirits; and to another [divers] kinds of tongues; and to another interpretation of tongues:
and all these doth work the one and the same Spirit, dividing to each severally as he intendeth.
For, even as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the one body, being many, are one body, so also [is] the Christ,
for also in one Spirit we all to one body were baptized, whether Jews or Greeks, whether servants or freemen, and all into one Spirit were made to drink,
for also the body is not one member, but many;
if the foot may say, 'Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body;' it is not, because of this, not of the body;
and if the ear may say, 'Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body;' it is not, because of this, not of the body?
If the whole body [were] an eye, where the hearing? if the whole hearing, where the smelling?
and now, God did set the members each one of them in the body, according as He willed,
and if all were one member, where the body?
and now, indeed, [are] many members, and one body;
and an eye is not able to say to the hand, 'I have no need of thee;' nor again the head to the feet, 'I have no need of you.'
But much more the members of the body which seem to be more infirm are necessary,
and those that we think to be less honourable of the body, around these we put more abundant honour, and our unseemly things have seemliness more abundant,
and our seemly things have no need; but God did temper the body together, to the lacking part having given more abundant honour,
that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same anxiety for one another,
and whether one member doth suffer, suffer with [it] do all the members, or one member is glorified, rejoice with [it] do all the members;
and ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
And some, indeed, did God set in the assembly, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, afterwards powers, afterwards gifts of healings, helpings, governings, divers kinds of tongues;
[are] all apostles? [are] all prophets? [are] all teachers? [are] all powers?
have all gifts of healings? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?
and desire earnestly the better gifts; and yet a far excelling way do I shew to you:
If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling;
and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing;
and if I give away to feed others all my goods, and if I give up my body that I may be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.
The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,
doth not act unseemly, doth not seek its own things, is not provoked, doth not impute evil,
rejoiceth not over the unrighteousness, and rejoiceth with the truth;
all things it beareth, all it believeth, all it hopeth, all it endureth.
The love doth never fail; and whether [there be] prophecies, they shall become useless; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall become useless;
for in part we know, and in part we prophecy;
and when that which is perfect may come, then that which [is] in part shall become useless.
When I was a babe, as a babe I was speaking, as a babe I was thinking, as a babe I was reasoning, and when I have become a man, I have made useless the things of the babe;
for we see now through a mirror obscurely, and then face to face; now I know in part, and then I shall fully know, as also I was known;
and now there doth remain faith, hope, love — these three; and the greatest of these [is] love.
Pursue the love, and seek earnestly the spiritual things, and rather that ye may prophecy,
for he who is speaking in an [unknown] tongue — to men he doth not speak, but to God, for no one doth hearken, and in spirit he doth speak secrets;
and he who is prophesying to men doth speak edification, and exhortation, and comfort;
he who is speaking in an [unknown] tongue, himself doth edify, and he who is prophesying, an assembly doth edify;
and I wish you all to speak with tongues, and more that ye may prophecy, for greater is he who is prophesying than he who is speaking with tongues, except one may interpret, that the assembly may receive edification.
And now, brethren, if I may come unto you speaking tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either in revelation, or in knowledge, or in prophesying, or in teaching?
yet the things without life giving sound — whether pipe or harp — if a difference in the sounds they may not give, how shall be known that which is piped or that which is harped?
for if also an uncertain sound a trumpet may give, who shall prepare himself for battle?
so also ye, if through the tongue, speech easily understood ye may not give — how shall that which is spoken be known? for ye shall be speaking to air.
There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is unmeaning,
if, then, I do not know the power of the voice, I shall be to him who is speaking a foreigner, and he who is speaking, is to me a foreigner;
so also ye, since ye are earnestly desirous of spiritual gifts, for the building up of the assembly seek that ye may abound;
wherefore he who is speaking in an [unknown] tongue — let him pray that he may interpret;
for if I pray in an [unknown] tongue, my spirit doth pray, and my understanding is unfruitful.
What then is it? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray also with the understanding; I will sing psalms with the spirit, and I will sing psalms also with the understanding;
since, if thou mayest bless with the spirit, he who is filling the place of the unlearned, how shall he say the Amen at thy giving of thanks, since what thou dost say he hath not known?
for thou, indeed, dost give thanks well, but the other is not built up!
I give thanks to my God — more than you all with tongues speaking —
but in an assembly I wish to speak five words through my understanding, that others also I may instruct, rather than myriads of words in an [unknown] tongue.
Brethren, become not children in the understanding, but in the evil be ye babes, and in the understanding become ye perfect;
in the law it hath been written, that, 'With other tongues and with other lips I will speak to this people, and not even so will they hear Me, saith the Lord;'