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1 Corinthians · read by Carter Conlon
155 verses, in order. Only the verses Carter read aloud are shown.
1 Corinthians 1
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Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.Read from ESV · The Year That We Flourish
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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 · The Year That We Flourish
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For in Him you have been enriched in every way, in all speech and all knowledge,Read from NKJV · The Year That We Flourish
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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 · The Year That We Flourish
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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 · The Year That We Flourish
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God, who has called you into fellowship with His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, is faithful.Read from ESV · The Year That We Flourish
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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 · Everyone's Work Will Be Tried by Fire
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My brothers, some from Chloe's household have informed me that there are quarrels among you.Read from KJV · The Glorious Ministration of the Spirit
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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 KJV · Everyone's Work Will Be Tried by Fire
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Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Were you baptized into the name of Paul?Read from ESV · Everyone's Work Will Be Tried by Fire
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I thank God that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius,Read from KJV · The Glorious Ministration of the Spirit
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so no one can say that you were baptized into my name.Read from NKJV · The Glorious Ministration of the Spirit
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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 KJV · Almost Persuaded
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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 KJV · Resurrecting the Voices of Victory
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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 KJV · Almost Persuaded
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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 KJV · Almost Persuaded
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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 KJV · How to Embrace the Power of the Cross
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but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,Read from NKJV · Reclaiming the Mind of Christ
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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 · Freedom Fights Back
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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 ESV · It's Time For Another Ridiclous Battleplan
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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 · Freedom Fights Back
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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 · It's Time For Another Ridiclous Battleplan
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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 KJV · Almost Persuaded
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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 KJV · Have You Seen Your Calling Yet
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Therefore, as it is written: "Let him who boasts boast in the Lord."Read from NKJV · It's Time For Another Ridiclous Battleplan
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 · The Necessity of Weakness
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For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.Read from NKJV · Out Of Weakness Were Made Strong
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I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling.Read from NKJV · Out Of Weakness Were Made Strong
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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 KJV · Beware of the Wisdom of Men
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so that your faith would not rest on men's wisdom, but on God's power.Read from NKJV · Reclaiming the Mind of Christ
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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 · Out Of Weakness Were Made Strong
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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 KJV · My Preaching Is Good for Nothing
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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 · Out Of Weakness Were Made Strong
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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 · Have You Ever Felt That God Is Doing Nothing in Your Life?
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But God has revealed it to us by the Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.Read from NKJV · Reclaiming the Mind of Christ
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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 · Reclaiming the Mind of Christ
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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 · The Year That We Flourish
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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 · Out Of Weakness Were Made Strong
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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 · Reclaiming the Mind of Christ
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The spiritual man judges all things, but he himself is not subject to anyone's judgment.Read from NKJV · Out Of Weakness Were Made Strong
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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 · Knowing the Mind of Christ
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 · For Heaven's Sake, Hurry Up and Die
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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 · The Year That We Flourish
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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 KJV · Everyone's Work Will Be Tried by Fire
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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 KJV · Everyone's Work Will Be Tried by Fire
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What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? They are servants through whom you believed, as the Lord has assigned to each his role.Read from KJV · Everyone's Work Will Be Tried by Fire
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I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.Read from NKJV · The Glorious Ministration of the Spirit
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So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.Read from KJV · Everyone's Work Will Be Tried by Fire
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He who plants and he who waters are one in purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor.Read from KJV · Everyone's Work Will Be Tried by Fire
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For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building.Read from KJV · Everyone's Work Will Be Tried by Fire
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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 · The Real Jesus Doesn't Burn
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For no one can lay a foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.Read from KJV · Is Your Work Being Tried by Fire?
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If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw,Read from KJV · Everyone's Work Will Be Tried by Fire
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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 · The Real Jesus Doesn't Burn
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If what he has built survives, he will receive a reward.Read from KJV · Everyone's Work Will Be Tried by Fire
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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 KJV · Everyone's Work Will Be Tried by Fire
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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 KJV · Is Your Work Being Tried by Fire?
1 Corinthians 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 KJV · The Glorious Ministration of the Spirit
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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 · The Glorious Ministration of the Spirit
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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 KJV · Praising God at the Dung Gate
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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 KJV · The Glorious Ministration of the Spirit
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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 KJV · The Glorious Ministration of the Spirit
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I am not writing this to shame you, but to warn you as my beloved children.Read from NKJV · Abraham Could Have Stayed Home
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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 · Say Yes
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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 · Abraham Could Have Stayed Home
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Some of you have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you.Read from KJV · Beware of the Wisdom of Men
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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 KJV · My Preaching Is Good for Nothing
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For the kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power.Read from NKJV · Beware of the Wisdom of Men
1 Corinthians 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 KJV · The Glorying of Leaven
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Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.Read from KJV · The Glorying of Leaven
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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 KJV · The Glorying of Leaven
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 KJV · Judging Angels
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Instead, one brother goes to law against another, and this in front of unbelievers!Read from NASB1995 · The Church That Loses Its Calling
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The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means that you are thoroughly defeated already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?Read from NKJV · The Year That We Flourish
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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 KJV · Scotland 2009 - Evangelistic Rally - Part 3
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nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.Read from KJV · Scotland 2009 - Evangelistic Rally - Part 3
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By His power God raised the Lord from the dead, and He will raise us also.Read from NKJV · Searching the House for a Bride
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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 · Searching the House for a Bride
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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 · Searching the House for a Bride
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But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with Him in spirit.Read from NKJV · Searching the House for a Bride
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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 · Searching the House for a Bride
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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 · Searching the House for a Bride
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you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.Read from NKJV · For Heaven's Sake, Hurry Up and Die
1 Corinthians 8
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So this weak brother, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge.Read from NKJV · The Year That We Flourish
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By sinning against your brothers in this way and wounding their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.Read from NKJV · The Year That We Flourish
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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 · The Year That We Flourish
1 Corinthians 9
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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 KJV · Forfeiting the Burying Place of Kings
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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 KJV · Forfeiting the Burying Place of Kings
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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 KJV · Forfeiting the Burying Place of Kings
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I do all this for the sake of the gospel, so that I may share in its blessings.Read from KJV · Forfeiting the Burying Place of Kings
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 · The Year That We Flourish
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They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.Read from KJV · The Tabernacle of David
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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 · The Tabernacle of David
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Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness.Read from NKJV · The Year That We Flourish
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These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil things as they did.Read from NKJV · The Year That We Flourish
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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 KJV · The Tabernacle of David
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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 KJV · The Tabernacle of David
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We should not test Christ, as some of them did, and were killed by snakes.Read from NKJV · The Year That We Flourish
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And do not complain, as some of them did, and were killed by the destroying angel.Read from NKJV · The Year That We Flourish
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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 · The Year That We Flourish
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So the one who thinks he is standing firm should be careful not to fall.Read from NKJV · The Year That We Flourish
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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 · The Year That We Flourish
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I speak to reasonable people; judge for yourselves what I say.Read from KJV · The Supernatural Hand of Faith
1 Corinthians 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 · Not Without You - Part 1: The Commitment to Unity
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And indeed, there must be differences among you to show which of you are approved.Read from NKJV · Not Without You - Part 1: The Commitment to Unity
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Don't you have your own homes in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What can I say to you? Shall I praise you for this? No, I will not!Read from NKJV · Scotland 2009 - Evangelistic Rally - Part 2
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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 · This is God. Can You Hear Me
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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 · The Devil Knows The Greatness Of Your God! Do You？
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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 · How Do I Talk to God
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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 · How Will You Wake Up Tommorow？
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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 · Not Without You - Part 1: The Commitment to Unity
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Each one must examine himself before he eats of the bread and drinks of the cup.Read from KJV · The Sorrow of the Converted
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For anyone who eats and drinks without recognizing the body eats and drinks judgment on himself.Read from NKJV · (Not Without You - Part 1) The Commitment To Unity
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That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep.Read from KJV · The Sorrow of the Converted
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Now if we judged ourselves properly, we would not come under judgment.Read from NKJV · Not Without You - Part 1: The Commitment to Unity
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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 KJV · The Sorrow of the Converted
1 Corinthians 12
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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 · Not Without You - Part 1: The Commitment to Unity
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For the body does not consist of one part, but of many.Read from NKJV · (Not Without You - Part 1) The Commitment To Unity
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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 · Not Without You - Part 1: The Commitment to Unity
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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 · (Not Without You - Part 1) The Commitment To Unity
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As it is, there are many parts, but one body.Read from NKJV · (Not Without You - Part 1) The Commitment To Unity
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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 · God We Need You
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On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable,Read from NKJV · (Not Without You - Part 1) The Commitment To Unity
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and the parts we consider less honorable, we treat with greater honor. And our unpresentable parts are treated with special modesty,Read from NKJV · Not Without You - Part 1: The Commitment to Unity
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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 KJV · Not Without You - Part 1: The Commitment to Unity
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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 · (Not Without You - Part 1) The Commitment To Unity
1 Corinthians 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 · Not Without You - Part 1: The Commitment to Unity
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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 · A New Commandment
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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 · A New Commandment
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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 · A New Commandment
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It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.Read from NASB1995 · The Indisputable Evidence of a Great Church
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but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.Read from KJV · The Indisputable Evidence of a Great Church
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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 · The Indisputable Evidence of a Great Church
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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 · A New Commandment
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And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.Read from NKJV · A New Commandment
1 Corinthians 14
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I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you.Read from NKJV · The Indisputable Evidence of a Great Church
1 Corinthians 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 ESV · Leaving My Regrets And My Successes
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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 · He Will Show You Things To Come
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You fool! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.Read from KJV · Little Strength Christian
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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 KJV · The Glory of the Latter House
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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 · The Church in Smyrna
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Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—Read from KJV · The Church in Smyrna
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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 KJV · The Church in Smyrna
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For the perishable must be clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.Read from NKJV · The Church in Smyrna
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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 KJV · The Church in Smyrna
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"Where, O Death, is your victory? Where, O Death, is your sting?"Read from KJV · The Church in Smyrna
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But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!Read from ESV · The Church in Smyrna
1 Corinthians 16
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because a great door for effective work has opened to me, even though many oppose me.Read from NKJV · The Year That We Flourish