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1 Corinthians · read by Brian Brodersen
404 verses, in order. Only the verses Brian read aloud are shown.
1 Corinthians 1
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Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Introduction to 1st Corinthians
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To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be holy, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours:Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Introduction to 1st Corinthians
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Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.Read from ESV · (Ephesians) Introduction to Ephesians
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I always thank my God for you because of the grace He has given you in Christ Jesus.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Introduction to 1st Corinthians
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For in Him you have been enriched in every way, in all speech and all knowledge,Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Introduction to 1st Corinthians
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because our testimony about Christ was confirmed in you.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Introduction to 1st Corinthians
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Therefore you do not lack any spiritual gift as you eagerly await the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Introduction to 1st Corinthians
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He will sustain you to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Introduction to 1st Corinthians
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God, who has called you into fellowship with His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, is faithful.Read from ESV · (1 Corinthians) Introduction to 1st Corinthians
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I appeal to you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree together, so that there may be no divisions among you and that you may be united in mind and conviction.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 3
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My brothers, some from Chloe's household have informed me that there are quarrels among you.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 3
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What I mean is this: Individuals among you are saying, "I follow Paul," "I follow Apollos," "I follow Cephas," or "I follow Christ."Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 3
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Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Were you baptized into the name of Paul?Read from ESV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 3
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I thank God that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius,Read from ESV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 3
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so no one can say that you were baptized into my name.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Introduction to 1st Corinthians
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Yes, I also baptized the household of Stephanas; beyond that I do not remember if I baptized anyone else.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Introduction to 1st Corinthians
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For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with words of wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 3
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For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 2
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For it is written: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate."Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 2
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Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 2
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For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know Him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 2
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Jews demand signs and Greeks search for wisdom,Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 2
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but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 2
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but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.Read from ESV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 2
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For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength.Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Sowing to the Spirit
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Brothers, consider the time of your calling: Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were powerful; not many were of noble birth.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 2
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But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) the Humbling of the World
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He chose the lowly and despised things of the world, and the things that are not, to nullify the things that are,Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 2
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It is because of Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God: our righteousness, holiness, and redemption.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 2
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Therefore, as it is written: "Let him who boasts boast in the Lord."Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 2
1 Corinthians 2
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When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eloquence or wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 3
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For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 3
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I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 3
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My message and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power,Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 3
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so that your faith would not rest on men's wisdom, but on God's power.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 2
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Among the mature, however, we speak a message of wisdom—but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 2
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No, we speak of the mysterious and hidden wisdom of God, which He destined for our glory before time began.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 2
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None of the rulers of this age understood it. For if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 2
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Rather, as it is written: "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no heart has imagined, what God has prepared for those who love Him."Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 2
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For who among men knows the thoughts of man except his own spirit within him? So too, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 2
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We have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 2
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And this is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom, but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 2
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The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 2
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The spiritual man judges all things, but he himself is not subject to anyone's judgment.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Carnal Christianity
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"For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to instruct Him?" But we have the mind of Christ.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Carnal Christianity
1 Corinthians 3
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Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual, but as worldly—as infants in Christ.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Carnal Christianity
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I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for solid food. In fact, you are still not ready,Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Carnal Christianity
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for you are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and dissension among you, are you not worldly? Are you not walking in the way of man?Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Carnal Christianity
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For when one of you says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," are you not mere men?Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 3
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So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 3
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For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 3
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By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as an expert builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one must be careful how he builds.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Building the Church
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For no one can lay a foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Building the Church
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If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw,Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Building the Church
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his workmanship will be evident, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will prove the quality of each man's work.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Building the Church
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If what he has built survives, he will receive a reward.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Building the Church
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If it is burned up, he will suffer loss. He himself will be saved, but only as if through the flames.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 3
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Do you not know that you yourselves are God's temple, and that God's Spirit dwells in you?Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Building the Church
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If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him; for God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Building the Church
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Let no one deceive himself. If any of you thinks he is wise in this age, he should become a fool, so that he may become wise.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 3
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For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God's sight. As it is written: "He catches the wise in their craftiness."Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 3
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And again, "The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile."Read from ESV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 3
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Therefore, stop boasting in men. All things are yours,Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 4
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whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future. All of them belong to you,Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 4
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and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.Read from ESV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 3
1 Corinthians 4
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So then, men ought to regard us as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 4
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Now it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 4
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My conscience is clear, but that does not vindicate me. It is the Lord who judges me.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 4
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Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of men's hearts. At that time each will receive his praise from God.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 4
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Brothers, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, so that you may learn from us not to go beyond what is written. Then you will not take pride in one man over another.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Fool's for Christ's Sake
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For who makes you so superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Fool's for Christ's Sake
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Already you have all you want. Already you have become rich. Without us, you have become kings. How I wish you really were kings, so that we might be kings with you!Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 4
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For it seems to me that God has displayed us apostles at the end of the procession, like prisoners appointed for death. We have become a spectacle to the whole world, to angels as well as to men.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Fool's for Christ's Sake
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We are fools for Christ, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are honored, but we are dishonored.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Fool's for Christ's Sake
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To this very hour we are hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clothed, we are brutally treated, we are homeless.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Fool's for Christ's Sake
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We work hard with our own hands. When we are vilified, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it;Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Fool's for Christ's Sake
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when we are slandered, we answer gently. Up to this moment we have become the scum of the earth, the refuse of the world.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Fool's for Christ's Sake
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I am not writing this to shame you, but to warn you as my beloved children.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 4
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Even if you have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 4
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That is why I have sent you Timothy, my beloved and faithful child in the Lord. He will remind you of my way of life in Christ Jesus, which is exactly what I teach everywhere in every church.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 4
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Some of you have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Fool's for Christ's Sake
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But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord is willing, and then I will find out not only what these arrogant people are saying, but what power they have.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 4
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For the kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Fool's for Christ's Sake
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Which do you prefer? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and with a gentle spirit?Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 4
1 Corinthians 5
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And you are proud! Shouldn't you rather have been stricken with grief and have removed from your fellowship the man who did this?Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 5
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Although I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, and I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did this, just as if I were present.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 5
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When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus and I am with you in spirit, along with the power of the Lord Jesus,Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 5
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hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 5
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Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 5
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Therefore let us keep the feast, not with the old bread, leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and of truth.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 5
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I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.Read from NKJV · Judgement Begins in the House of God
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I was not including the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 5
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But now I am writing you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a verbal abuser, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 5
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What business of mine is it to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside?Read from NKJV · Judgement Begins in the House of God
1 Corinthians 6
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If any of you has a grievance against another, how dare he go to law before the unrighteous instead of before the saints!Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 6
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Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases?Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 6
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So if you need to settle everyday matters, do you appoint as judges those of no standing in the church?Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 6
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I say this to your shame. Is there really no one among you wise enough to arbitrate between his brothers?Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 6
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Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, even against your own brothers!Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 6
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Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,Read from NKJV · (Ephesians) Be Filled With the Spirit
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nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.Read from NKJV · (Ephesians) Be Filled With the Spirit
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And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Flee Sexual Immorality
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"Everything is permissible for me," but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible for me," but I will not be mastered by anything.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 6
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"Food for the stomach and the stomach for food," but God will destroy them both. The body is not intended for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 6
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By His power God raised the Lord from the dead, and He will raise us also.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 6
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Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 6
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Or don't you know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, "The two will become one flesh."Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 6
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But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with Him in spirit.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 6
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Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 6
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Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;Read from NKJV · (Colossians) the Mystery Revealed
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you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.Read from ESV · (Romans) Obedience From the Heart
1 Corinthians 7
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Now for the matters you wrote about: It is good to abstain from sexual relations.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 7
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But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 7
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The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 7
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Do not deprive each other, except by mutual consent and for a time, so you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again, so that Satan will not tempt you through your lack of self-control.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 7
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I say this as a concession, not as a command.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 7
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I wish that all men were as I am. But each man has his own gift from God; one has this gift, another has that.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 7
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Now to the unmarried and widows I say this: It is good for them to remain unmarried, as I am.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 7
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But if they cannot control themselves, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 7
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But if she does, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must not divorce his wife.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 7
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And if a woman has an unbelieving husband and he is willing to live with her, she must not divorce him.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 7
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For the unbelieving husband is sanctified through his believing wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 7
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But if the unbeliever leaves, let him go. The believing brother or sister is not bound in such cases. God has called you to live in peace.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 7
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How do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?Read from ESV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 7
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Regardless, each one should lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him and to which God has called him. This is what I prescribe in all the churches.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 7
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Was a man already circumcised when he was called? He should not become uncircumcised. Was a man still uncircumcised when called? He should not be circumcised.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 7
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Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Keeping God's commandments is what counts.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 7
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Each one should remain in the situation he was in when he was called.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 7
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Were you a slave when you were called? Do not let it concern you—but if you can gain your freedom, take the opportunity.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 7
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For he who was a slave when he was called by the Lord is the Lord's freedman. Conversely, he who was a free man when he was called is Christ's slave.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 7
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You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 7
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Brothers, each one should remain in the situation he was in when God called him.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 7
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Because of the present crisis, I think it is good for a man to remain as he is.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 7
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Are you committed to a wife? Do not seek to be released. Are you free of commitment? Do not look for a wife.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 7
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What I am saying, brothers, is that the time is short. From now on those who have wives should live as if they had none;Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 7
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those who weep, as if they did not; those who are joyful, as if they were not; those who make a purchase, as if they had nothing;Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 7
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and those who use the things of this world, as if not dependent on them. For this world in its present form is passing away.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) the Time Is Short
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I want you to be free from concern. The unmarried man is concerned about the work of the Lord, how he can please the Lord.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 7
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But the married man is concerned about the affairs of this world, how he can please his wife,Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 7
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and his interests are divided. The unmarried woman or virgin is concerned about the work of the Lord, how she can be holy in both body and spirit. But the married woman is concerned about the affairs of this world, how she can please her husband.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 7
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I am saying this for your own good, not to restrict you, but in order to promote proper decorum and undivided devotion to the Lord.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 7
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However, if someone thinks he is acting inappropriately toward his betrothed, and if she is beyond her youth and they ought to marry, let him do as he wishes; he is not sinning; they should get married.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 7
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So then, he who marries the virgin does well, but he who does not marry her does even better.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 7
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A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes, as long as he belongs to the Lord.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 7
1 Corinthians 8
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Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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The one who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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But the one who loves God is known by God.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many so-called gods and lords),Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we exist. And there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we exist.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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But food does not bring us closer to God: We are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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Be careful, however, that your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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For if someone with a weak conscience sees you who are well informed eating in an idol's temple, will he not be encouraged to eat food sacrificed to idols?Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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So this weak brother, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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By sinning against your brothers in this way and wounding their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause him to stumble.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
1 Corinthians 9
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Even if I am not an apostle to others, surely I am to you. For you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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This is my defense to those who scrutinize me:Read from NASB1995 · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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Have we no right to food and to drink?Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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Have we no right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the Lord's brothers and Cephas?Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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Or are Barnabas and I the only apostles who must work for a living?Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Who tends a flock and does not drink of its milk?Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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Do I say this from a human perspective? Doesn't the Law say the same thing?Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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For it is written in the Law of Moses: "Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain." Is it about oxen that God is concerned?Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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Isn't He actually speaking on our behalf? Indeed, this was written for us, because when the plowman plows and the thresher threshes, they should also expect to share in the harvest.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much for us to reap a material harvest from you?Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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If others have this right to your support, shouldn't we have it all the more? But we did not exercise this right. Instead, we put up with anything rather than hinder the gospel of Christ.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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Do you not know that those who work in the temple eat of its food, and those who serve at the altar partake of its offerings?Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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In the same way, the Lord has prescribed that those who preach the gospel should receive their living from the gospel.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing this to suggest that something be done for me. Indeed, I would rather die than let anyone nullify my boast.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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Yet when I preach the gospel, I have no reason to boast, because I am obligated to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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If my preaching is voluntary, I have a reward. But if it is not voluntary, I am still entrusted with a responsibility.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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What then is my reward? That in preaching the gospel I may offer it free of charge, and so not use up my rights in preaching it.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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Though I am free of obligation to anyone, I make myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law), to win those under the law.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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To those without the law I became like one without the law (though I am not outside the law of God but am under the law of Christ), to win those without the law.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way as to take the prize.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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Everyone who competes in the games trains with strict discipline. They do it for a crown that is perishable, but we do it for a crown that is imperishable.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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Therefore I do not run aimlessly; I do not fight like I am beating the air.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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No, I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
1 Corinthians 10
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I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud, and that they all passed through the sea.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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They all ate the same spiritual foodRead from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil things as they did.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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Do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written: "The people sat down to eat and to drink, and got up to indulge in revelry."Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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We should not test Christ, as some of them did, and were killed by snakes.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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And do not complain, as some of them did, and were killed by the destroying angel.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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Now these things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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So the one who thinks he is standing firm should be careful not to fall.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide an escape, so that you can stand up under it.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) God & the Difficulties of Life
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Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.Read from ESV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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I speak to reasonable people; judge for yourselves what I say.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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Is not the cup of blessing that we bless a participation in the blood of Christ? And is not the bread that we break a participation in the body of Christ?Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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Because there is one loaf, we who are many are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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Consider the people of Israel: Are not those who eat the sacrifices fellow partakers in the altar?Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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Am I suggesting, then, that food sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything?Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God. And I do not want you to be participants with demons.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot partake in the table of the Lord and the table of demons too.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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Are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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"Everything is permissible," but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible," but not everything is edifying.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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No one should seek his own good, but the good of others.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience,Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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for, "The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof."Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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If an unbeliever invites you to a meal and you want to go, eat anything set before you without raising questions of conscience.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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But if someone tells you, "This food was offered to idols," then do not eat it, for the sake of the one who told you and for the sake of conscience—Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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the other one's conscience, I mean, not your own. For why should my freedom be determined by someone else's conscience?Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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If I partake in the meal with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of that for which I give thanks?Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God.Read from ESV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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Do not become a stumbling block, whether to Jews or Greeks or the church of God—Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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as I also try to please everyone in all I do. For I am not seeking my own good, but the good of many, that they may be saved.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
1 Corinthians 11
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You are to imitate me, just as I imitate Christ.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Christian Liberty and It's Limitations
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Now I commend you for remembering me in everything and for maintaining the traditions, just as I passed them on to you.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 11
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But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 11
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Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 11
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And every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, for it is just as if her head were shaved.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 11
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If a woman does not cover her head, she should have her hair cut off. And if it is shameful for a woman to have her hair cut or shaved off, she should cover her head.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 11
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A man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 11
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For man did not come from woman, but woman from man.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 11
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Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 11
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For this reason a woman ought to have a sign of authority on her head, because of the angels.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 11
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In the Lord, however, woman is not independent of man, nor is man independent of woman.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 11
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For just as woman came from man, so also man is born of woman. But everything comes from God.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 11
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Judge for yourselves: Is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered?Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 11
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Doesn't nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to him,Read from NASB1995 · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 11
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but that if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For long hair is given to her as a covering.Read from NASB1995 · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 11
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If anyone is inclined to dispute this, we have no other practice, nor do the churches of God.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 11
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In the following instructions I have no praise to offer, because your gatherings do more harm than good.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 11
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First of all, I hear that when you come together as a church, there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 11
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And indeed, there must be differences among you to show which of you are approved.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 11
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Now then, when you come together, it is not the Lord's Supper you eat.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 11
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For as you eat, each of you goes ahead without sharing his meal. While one remains hungry, another gets drunk.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 11
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For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night He was betrayed, took bread,Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 11
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and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, "This is My body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of Me."Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 11
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In the same way, after supper He took the cup, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in My blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me."Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 11
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For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until He comes.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 11
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Therefore, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 11
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Each one must examine himself before he eats of the bread and drinks of the cup.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 11
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For anyone who eats and drinks without recognizing the body eats and drinks judgment on himself.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 11
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That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 11
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Now if we judged ourselves properly, we would not come under judgment.Read from NKJV · (John) the Cleansing of the Temple
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But when we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be condemned with the world.Read from NKJV · (John) the Cleansing of the Temple
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So, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 11
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If anyone is hungry, he should eat at home, so that when you come together it will not result in judgment. And when I come, I will give instructions about the remaining matters.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 11
1 Corinthians 12
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Now about spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed.Read from NKJV · A Passion for the Gifts of the Spirit
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You know that when you were pagans, you were influenced and led astray to mute idols.Read from NKJV · A Passion for the Gifts of the Spirit
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Therefore I inform you that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, "Jesus be cursed," and no one can say, "Jesus is Lord," except by the Holy Spirit.Read from NKJV · A Passion for the Gifts of the Spirit
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There are different gifts, but the same Spirit.Read from NKJV · A Passion for the Gifts of the Spirit
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There are different ministries, but the same Lord.Read from NKJV · A Passion for the Gifts of the Spirit
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There are different ways of working, but the same God works all things in all people.Read from NKJV · A Passion for the Gifts of the Spirit
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Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Spiritual Gifts
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To one there is given through the Spirit the message of wisdom, to another the message of knowledge by the same Spirit,Read from NKJV · A Passion for the Gifts of the Spirit
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to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit,Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Spiritual Gifts
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to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in various tongues, and to still another the interpretation of tongues.Read from NKJV · A Passion for the Gifts of the Spirit
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All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, who apportions them to each one as He determines.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Spiritual Gifts
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The body is a unit, though it is composed of many parts. And although its parts are many, they all form one body. So it is with Christ.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 12
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For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free, and we were all given one Spirit to drink.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 12
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For the body does not consist of one part, but of many.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 12
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If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body," that would not make it any less a part of the body.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 12
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And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body," that would not make it any less a part of the body.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 12
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If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be?Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 12
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But in fact, God has arranged the members of the body, every one of them, according to His design.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 12
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If they were all one part, where would the body be?Read from NASB1995 · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 12
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As it is, there are many parts, but one body.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 12
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The eye cannot say to the hand, "I do not need you." Nor can the head say to the feet, "I do not need you."Read from ESV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 12
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On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable,Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 12
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whereas our presentable parts have no such need. But God has composed the body and has given greater honor to the parts that lacked it,Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 12
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so that there should be no division in the body, but that its members should have mutual concern for one another.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 12
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If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.Read from NASB1995 · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 12
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Now you are the body of Christ, and each of you is a member of it.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 12
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And in the church God has appointed first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles, and those with gifts of healing, helping, administration, and various tongues.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 13
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Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles?Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 13
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Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues? Do all interpret?Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 13
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But eagerly desire the greater gifts. And now I will show you the most excellent way.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 12
1 Corinthians 13
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If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 13
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If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 13
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If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 13
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Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 13
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It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.Read from NKJV · (Ephesians) Walking in Love
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Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.Read from NKJV · (Ephesians) Walking in Love
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It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.Read from NASB1995 · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 13
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Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be restrained; where there is knowledge, it will be dismissed.Read from NKJV · (Ephesians) Walking in Love
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When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside childish ways.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 13
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Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.Read from NKJV · (Ephesians) Walking in Love
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And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 13
1 Corinthians 14
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Earnestly pursue love and eagerly desire spiritual gifts, especially the gift of prophecy.Read from NKJV · (1 Thessalonians) Do Not Quench the Spirit
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For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men, but to God. Indeed, no one understands him; he utters mysteries in the Spirit.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 14
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But he who prophesies speaks to men for their edification, encouragement, and comfort.Read from NKJV · (1 Thessalonians) Do Not Quench the Spirit
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The one who speaks in a tongue edifies himself, but the one who prophesies edifies the church.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 14
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I wish that all of you could speak in tongues, but I would rather have you prophesy. He who prophesies is greater than one who speaks in tongues, unless he interprets so that the church may be edified.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 14
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Now, brothers, if I come to you speaking in tongues, how will I benefit you, unless I bring you some revelation or knowledge or prophecy or teaching?Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 14
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Even in the case of lifeless instruments, such as the flute or harp, how will anyone recognize the tune they are playing unless the notes are distinct?Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 14
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Again, if the trumpet sounds a muffled call, who will prepare for battle?Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 14
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So it is with you. Unless you speak intelligible words with your tongue, how will anyone know what you are saying? You will just be speaking into the air.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 14
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Assuredly, there are many different languages in the world, yet none of them is without meaning.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 14
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If, then, I do not know the meaning of someone's language, I am a foreigner to the speaker, and he is a foreigner to me.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 14
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It is the same with you. Since you are eager to have spiritual gifts, strive to excel in gifts that build up the church.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 14
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Therefore, the one who speaks in a tongue should pray that he may interpret.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 14
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For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 14
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Otherwise, if you speak a blessing in spirit, how can someone who is uninstructed say "Amen" to your thanksgiving, since he does not know what you are saying?Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 14
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You may be giving thanks well enough, but the other one is not edified.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 14
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I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 14
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Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 14
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It is written in the Law: "By strange tongues and foreign lips I will speak to this people, but even then they will not listen to Me, says the Lord."Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 14
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So if the whole church comes together and everyone speaks in tongues, and some who are uninstructed or some unbelievers come in, will they not say that you are out of your minds?Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 14
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But if an unbeliever or uninstructed person comes in while everyone is prophesying, he will be convicted and called to account by all,Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 14
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and the secrets of his heart will be made known. So he will fall facedown and worship God, proclaiming, "God is truly among you!"Read from NKJV · A Passion for the Gifts of the Spirit
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If anyone speaks in a tongue, two, or at most three, should speak in turn, and someone must interpret.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 14
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But if there is no interpreter, he should remain silent in the church and speak only to himself and God.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 14
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Two or three prophets should speak, and the others should weigh carefully what is said.Read from NKJV · (1 Thessalonians) Do Not Quench the Spirit
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And if a revelation comes to someone who is seated, the first speaker should stop.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 14
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For you can all prophesy in turn so that everyone may be instructed and encouraged.Read from NKJV · (1 Thessalonians) Do Not Quench the Spirit
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The spirits of prophets are subject to prophets.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 14
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For God is not a God of disorder, but of peace—as in all the churches of the saints.Read from NKJV · (1 Thessalonians) Do Not Quench the Spirit
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Women are to be silent in the churches. They are not permitted to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 14
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If they wish to inquire about something, they are to ask their own husbands at home; for it is dishonorable for a woman to speak in the church.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 14
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Did the word of God originate with you? Or are you the only ones it has reached?Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 14
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If anyone considers himself a prophet or spiritual person, let him acknowledge that what I am writing you is the Lord's command.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 14
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But if anyone ignores this, he himself will be ignored.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 14
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So, my brothers, be eager to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 14
1 Corinthians 15
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Now, brothers, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, and in which you stand firm.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Exposition to Chapter 15
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By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Exposition to Chapter 15
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For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Exposition to Chapter 15
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that He was buried, that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Exposition to Chapter 15
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and that He appeared to Cephas and then to the Twelve.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Exposition to Chapter 15
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After that, He appeared to more than five hundred brothers at once, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 15
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Then He appeared to James, then to all the apostles.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Exposition to Chapter 15
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And last of all He appeared to me also, as to one of untimely birth.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Exposition to Chapter 15
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For I am the least of the apostles and am unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 15
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But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace to me was not in vain. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Exposition to Chapter 15
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Whether, then, it was I or they, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Exposition to Chapter 15
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But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?Read from NASB1995 · (1 Corinthians) Exposition to Chapter 15
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If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Exposition to Chapter 15
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And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is worthless, and so is your faith.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Exposition to Chapter 15
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In that case, we are also exposed as false witnesses about God. For we have testified about God that He raised Christ from the dead, but He did not raise Him if in fact the dead are not raised.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 15
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For if the dead are not raised, then not even Christ has been raised.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Exposition to Chapter 15
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And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Exposition to Chapter 15
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Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Exposition to Chapter 15
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If our hope in Christ is for this life alone, we are to be pitied more than all men.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 15
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But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Exposition to Chapter 15
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For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man.Read from NKJV · (Romans) Sin, Death, and Jesus Christ
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For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.Read from NKJV · (Romans) Sin, Death, and Jesus Christ
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But each in his own turn: Christ the firstfruits; then at His coming, those who belong to Him.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Exposition to Chapter 15
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Then the end will come, when He hands over the kingdom to God the Father after He has destroyed all dominion, authority, and power.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Exposition to Chapter 15
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For He must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Exposition to Chapter 15
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For "God has put everything under His feet." Now when it says that everything has been put under Him, this clearly does not include the One who put everything under Him.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Exposition to Chapter 15
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And when all things have been subjected to Him, then the Son Himself will be made subject to Him who put all things under Him, so that God may be all in all.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Exposition to Chapter 15
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If these things are not so, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized for them?Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 15
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And why do we endanger ourselves every hour?Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 15
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I face death every day, brothers, as surely as I boast about you in Christ Jesus our Lord.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 15
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If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus for human motives, what did I gain? If the dead are not raised, "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Exposition to Chapter 15
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Do not be deceived: "Bad company corrupts good character."Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Exposition to Chapter 15
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Sober up as you ought, and stop sinning; for some of you are ignorant of God. I say this to your shame.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 15
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But someone will ask, "How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?"Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Exposition to Chapter 15
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You fool! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Exposition to Chapter 15
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And what you sow is not the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or something else.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Exposition to Chapter 15
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But God gives it a body as He has designed, and to each kind of seed He gives its own body.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Exposition to Chapter 15
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Not all flesh is the same: Men have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another, and fish another.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Exposition to Chapter 15
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There are also heavenly bodies and earthly bodies. But the splendor of the heavenly bodies is of one degree, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is of another.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Exposition to Chapter 15
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The sun has one degree of splendor, the moon another, and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendor.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Exposition to Chapter 15
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So will it be with the resurrection of the dead: What is sown is perishable; it is raised imperishable.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Exposition to Chapter 15
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It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power.Read from ESV · (1 Corinthians) Exposition to Chapter 15
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It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Exposition to Chapter 15
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So it is written: "The first man Adam became a living being;" the last Adam a life-giving spirit.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Exposition to Chapter 15
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The spiritual, however, was not first, but the natural, and then the spiritual.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Exposition to Chapter 15
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The first man was of the dust of the earth, the second man from heaven.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Exposition to Chapter 15
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As was the earthly man, so also are those who are of the earth; and as is the heavenly man, so also are those who are of heaven.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Exposition to Chapter 15
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And just as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so also shall we bear the likeness of the heavenly man.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Exposition to Chapter 15
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Now I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Exposition to Chapter 15
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in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.Read from NKJV · The Hour of Trial
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For the perishable must be clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Exposition to Chapter 15
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When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come to pass: "Death has been swallowed up in victory."Read from NKJV · The Hour of Trial
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"Where, O Death, is your victory? Where, O Death, is your sting?"Read from NKJV · The Hour of Trial
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The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Exposition to Chapter 15
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But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!Read from ESV · (1 Corinthians) Exposition to Chapter 15
1 Corinthians 16
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Now about the collection for the saints, you are to do as I directed the churches of Galatia:Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 16
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On the first day of every week, each of you should set aside a portion of his income, saving it up, so that when I come no collections will be needed.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 16
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Then, on my arrival, I will send letters with those you recommend to carry your gift to Jerusalem.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 16
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And if it is advisable for me to go also, they can travel with me.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 16
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After I go through Macedonia, however, I will come to you; for I will be going through Macedonia.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 16
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Perhaps I will stay with you awhile, or even spend the winter, so that you can help me on my journey, wherever I go.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 16
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For I do not want to see you now only in passing; I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord permits.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 16
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But I will stay in Ephesus until Pentecost,Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 16
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because a great door for effective work has opened to me, even though many oppose me.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 16
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If Timothy comes, see to it that he has nothing to fear while he is with you, for he is doing the work of the Lord, just as I am.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 16
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No one, then, should treat him with contempt. Send him on his way in peace so that he can return to me, for I am expecting him along with the brothers.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 16
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Now about our brother Apollos: I strongly urged him to go to you with the brothers. He was not at all inclined to go now, but he will go when he has the opportunity.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 16
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Be on the alert. Stand firm in the faith. Be men of courage. Be strong.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 16
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to submit to such as these, and to every fellow worker and laborer.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 16
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I am glad that Stephanas, Fortunatus, and Achaicus have arrived, because they have supplied what was lacking from you.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 16
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For they refreshed my spirit and yours as well. Show your appreciation, therefore, to such men.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 16
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The churches in the province of Asia send you greetings. Aquila and Prisca greet you warmly in the Lord, and so does the church that meets at their house.Read from NKJV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 16
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All the brothers here send you greetings. Greet one another with a holy kiss.Read from NASB1995 · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 16
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My love be with all of you in Christ Jesus. Amen.Read from ESV · (1 Corinthians) Overview to Chapter 16