Day 269 of 365

¹If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

²If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

³If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.

⁴Love is patient and is kind; love does not envy. Love does not brag, is not proud,

⁵doesn't behave itself inappropriately, does not seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

⁶doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

⁷bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

⁸Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.

⁹For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;

¹⁰but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.

¹¹When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.

¹²For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.

¹³But now faith, hope, and love remain-these three. The greatest of these is love.

¹Follow after love, and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.

²For he who speaks in another language speaks not to men, but to God; for no one understands; but in the Spirit he speaks mysteries.

³But he who prophesies speaks to men for their encouragement, strengthening, and comfort.

⁴He who speaks in another language edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the church.

⁵Now I desire to have you all speak with other languages, but rather that you would prophesy, and he is greater who prophesies than he who speaks with other languages, unless he interprets, that the church may be built up.

⁶But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking with other languages, what would I profit you, unless I speak to you either by way of revelation, or of knowledge, or of prophesying, or of teaching?

⁷Even things without life, giving a voice, whether pipe or harp, if they did not give a distinction in the sounds, how would it be known what is piped or harped?

⁸For if the trumpet gave an uncertain sound, who would prepare himself for war?

⁹So also you, unless you uttered by the tongue words easy to understand, how would it be known what is spoken? For you would be speaking into the air.

¹⁰There are, it may be, so many kinds of sounds in the world, and none is without meaning.

¹¹If then I do not know the meaning of the sound, I would be to him who speaks a foreigner, and he who speaks would be a foreigner to me.

¹²So also you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, seek that you may abound to the building up of the church.

¹³Therefore let him who speaks in another language pray that he may interpret.

¹⁴For if I pray in another language, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful.

¹⁵What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also. I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.

¹⁶Otherwise if you bless with the spirit, how will he who fills the place of the unlearned say the "Amen" at your giving of thanks, seeing he does not know what you say?

¹⁷For you truly give thanks well, but the other person is not built up.

¹⁸I thank God, I speak with other languages more than you all.

¹⁹However in the church I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in another language.

²⁰Brothers, do not be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

²¹In the law it is written, "By men of strange languages and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people. Not even thus will they hear me, says the Lord."

²²Therefore other languages are for a sign, not to those who believe, but to the unbelieving; but prophesying is for a sign, not to the unbelieving, but to those who believe.

²³If therefore the whole church is assembled together and all speak with other languages, and unlearned or unbelieving people come in, won't they say that you are crazy?

²⁴But if all prophesy, and someone unbelieving or unlearned comes in, he is reproved by all, and he is judged by all.

²⁵And thus the secrets of his heart are revealed. So he will fall down on his face and worship God, declaring that God is among you indeed.

²⁶What is it then, brothers? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has another language, has an interpretation. Let all things be done to build each other up.

²⁷If any man speaks in another language, let it be two, or at the most three, and in turn; and let one interpret.

²⁸But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent in the church, and let him speak to himself, and to God.

²⁹Let the prophets speak, two or three, and let the others discern.

³⁰But if a revelation is made to another sitting by, let the first keep silent.

³¹For you can all prophesy one by one, that all may learn and all may be encouraged.

³²The spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets,

³³for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints,

³⁴let the women keep silent in the churches, for it has not been permitted for them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as the Law also says.

³⁵If they desire to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is shameful for a woman to chatter in the church.

³⁶What? Was it from you that the word of God went out? Or did it come to you alone?

³⁷If any man thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him recognize the things which I write to you, that they are the commandment of the Lord.

³⁸But if someone does not recognize this, he is not recognized.

³⁹Therefore, brothers, desire earnestly to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking with other languages.

⁴⁰Let all things be done decently and in order.

¹Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand,

²by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you-unless you believed in vain.

³For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

⁴that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,

⁵and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.

⁶Then he appeared to over five hundred brothers at once, most of whom remain until now, but some have also fallen asleep.

⁷Then he appeared to Jacob, then to all the apostles,

⁸and last of all, as to the child born at the wrong time, he appeared to me also.

⁹For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

¹⁰But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was bestowed on me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

¹¹Whether then it is I or they, so we proclaim, and so you believed.

¹²Now if Christ is preached, that he has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

¹³But if there is no resurrection of the dead, neither has Christ been raised.

¹⁴If Christ has not been raised, then our proclaiming is in vain, and your faith also is in vain.

¹⁵Yes, we are found false witnesses of God, because we testified about God that he raised up Christ, whom he did not raise up, if it is so that the dead are not raised.

¹⁶For if the dead are not raised, neither has Christ been raised.

¹⁷If Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins.

¹⁸Then they also who are fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

¹⁹If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable.

²⁰But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who are asleep.

²¹For since death came by man, the resurrection of the dead also came by man.

²²For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

²³But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then those who are Christ's, at his coming.

²⁴Then the end comes, when he will deliver up the Kingdom to God, even the Father; when he will have abolished all rule and all authority and power.

²⁵For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.

²⁶The last enemy that will be abolished is death.

²⁷For, "He 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 subjected all things to him.

²⁸When all things have been subjected to him, then the Son will also himself be subjected to him who subjected all things to him, that God may be all in all.

²⁹Or else what will they do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why then are they baptized for them?

³⁰Why do we also stand in jeopardy every hour?

³¹I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

³²If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then "let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."

³³Do not be deceived! "Evil companionships corrupt good morals."

³⁴Wake up righteously, and do not sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

³⁵But someone will say, "How are the dead raised?" and, "With what kind of body do they come?"

³⁶You foolish one, that which you yourself sow is not made alive unless it dies.

³⁷That which you sow, you do not sow the body that will be, but a bare grain, maybe of wheat, or of some other kind.

³⁸But God gives it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own.

³⁹All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, another flesh of animals, another of fish, and another of birds.

⁴⁰There are also celestial bodies, and terrestrial bodies; but the glory of the celestial differs from that of the terrestrial.

⁴¹There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differs from another star in glory.

⁴²So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption.

⁴³It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power.

⁴⁴It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there is also a spiritual body.

⁴⁵So also it is written, "The first man, Adam, became a living soul." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

⁴⁶However that which is spiritual is not first, but that which is natural, then that which is spiritual.

⁴⁷The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is from heaven.

⁴⁸As is the one made of dust, such are those who are also made of dust; and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.

⁴⁹As we have borne the image of those made of dust, we will also bear the image of the heavenly.

⁵⁰Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.

⁵¹Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,

⁵²in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed.

⁵³For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

⁵⁴But when this corruptible will have put on incorruption, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: "Death is swallowed up in victory."

⁵⁵"Death, where is your victory? Death, where is your sting?"

⁵⁶The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

⁵⁷But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁵⁸Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord's work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

¹Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I commanded the churches of Galatia, you do likewise.

²On the first day of the week, let each one of you save, as he may prosper, that no collections be made when I come.

³When I arrive, I will send whoever you approve with letters to carry your gracious gift to Jerusalem.

⁴If it is appropriate for me to go also, they will go with me.

⁵But I will come to you when I have passed through Macedonia, for I am passing through Macedonia.

⁶But with you it may be that I will stay, or even winter, that you may send me on my journey wherever I go.

⁷For I do not wish to see you now in passing, but I hope to stay a while with you, if the Lord permits.

⁸But I will stay at Ephesus until Pentecost,

⁹for a great and effective door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.

¹⁰Now if Timothy comes, see that he is with you without fear, for he does the work of the Lord, as I also do.

¹¹Therefore let no one despise him. But set him forward on his journey in peace, that he may come to me; for I expect him with the brothers.

¹²Now concerning Apollos, the brother, I strongly urged him to come to you with the brothers; and it was not at all his desire to come now; but he will come when he has an opportunity.

¹³Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

¹⁴Let all that you do be done in love.

¹⁵Now I beg you, brothers (you know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first fruits of Achaia, and that they have set themselves to serve the saints),

¹⁶that you also be in subjection to such, and to everyone who helps in the work and labors.

¹⁷I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas, Fortunatus, and Achaicus; for that which was lacking on your part, they supplied.

¹⁸For they refreshed my spirit and yours. Therefore acknowledge those who are like that.

¹⁹The churches of Asia greet you. Aquila and Priscilla greet you much in the Lord, together with the church that is in their house.

²⁰All the brothers greet you. Greet one another with a holy kiss.

²¹This greeting is by me, Paul, with my own hand.

²²If any man does not love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accursed. Come, Lord!

²³The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

²⁴My love to all of you in Christ Jesus.