1 Corinthians 12-14

I Corinthians 12

¹And concerning the spiritual things, brethren, I do not wish you to be ignorant;

²ye have known that ye were nations, unto the dumb idols -- as ye were led -- being carried away;

³wherefore, I give you to understand that no one, in the Spirit of God speaking, saith Jesus is anathema, and no one is able to say Jesus is Lord, except in the Holy Spirit.

⁴And there are diversities of gifts, and the same Spirit;

⁵and there are diversities of ministrations, and the same Lord;

⁶and there are diversities of workings, and it is the same God -- who is working the all in all.

⁷And to each hath been given the manifestation of the Spirit for profit;

⁸for to one through the Spirit hath been given a word of wisdom, and to another a word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit;

⁹and to another faith in the same Spirit, and to another gifts of healings in the same Spirit;

¹⁰and to another in-workings of mighty deeds; and to another prophecy; and to another discernings of spirits; and to another divers kinds of tongues; and to another interpretation of tongues:

¹¹and all these doth work the one and the same Spirit, dividing to each severally as he intendeth.

¹²For, even as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the one body, being many, are one body, so also is the Christ,

¹³for also in one Spirit we all to one body were baptized, whether Jews or Greeks, whether servants or freemen, and all into one Spirit were made to drink,

¹⁴for also the body is not one member, but many;

¹⁵if the foot may say, ‘Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body;' it is not, because of this, not of the body;

¹⁶and if the ear may say, ‘Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body;' it is not, because of this, not of the body?

¹⁷If the whole body were an eye, where the hearing? if the whole hearing, where the smelling?

¹⁸and now, God did set the members each one of them in the body, according as He willed,

¹⁹and if all were one member, where the body?

²⁰and now, indeed, are many members, and one body;

²¹and an eye is not able to say to the hand, ‘I have no need of thee;' nor again the head to the feet, ‘I have no need of you.'

²²But much more the members of the body which seem to be more infirm are necessary,

²³and those that we think to be less honourable of the body, around these we put more abundant honour, and our unseemly things have seemliness more abundant,

²⁴and our seemly things have no need; but God did temper the body together, to the lacking part having given more abundant honour,

²⁵that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same anxiety for one another,

²⁶and whether one member doth suffer, suffer with it do all the members, or one member is glorified, rejoice with it do all the members;

²⁷and ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

²⁸And some, indeed, did God set in the assembly, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, afterwards powers, afterwards gifts of healings, helpings, governings, divers kinds of tongues;

²⁹are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all powers?

³⁰have all gifts of healings? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?

³¹and desire earnestly the better gifts; and yet a far excelling way do I shew to you:

I Corinthians 13

¹If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling;

²and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing;

³and if I give away to feed others all my goods, and if I give up my body that I may be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.

⁴The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,

⁵doth not act unseemly, doth not seek its own things, is not provoked, doth not impute evil,

⁶rejoiceth not over the unrighteousness, and rejoiceth with the truth;

⁷all things it beareth, all it believeth, all it hopeth, all it endureth.

⁸The love doth never fail; and whether there be prophecies, they shall become useless; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall become useless;

⁹for in part we know, and in part we prophecy;

¹⁰and when that which is perfect may come, then that which is in part shall become useless.

¹¹When I was a babe, as a babe I was speaking, as a babe I was thinking, as a babe I was reasoning, and when I have become a man, I have made useless the things of the babe;

¹²for we see now through a mirror obscurely, and then face to face; now I know in part, and then I shall fully know, as also I was known;

¹³and now there doth remain faith, hope, love -- these three; and the greatest of these is love.

I Corinthians 14

¹Pursue the love, and seek earnestly the spiritual things, and rather that ye may prophecy,

²for he who is speaking in an unknown tongue -- to men he doth not speak, but to God, for no one doth hearken, and in spirit he doth speak secrets;

³and he who is prophesying to men doth speak edification, and exhortation, and comfort;

⁴he who is speaking in an unknown tongue, himself doth edify, and he who is prophesying, an assembly doth edify;

⁵and I wish you all to speak with tongues, and more that ye may prophecy, for greater is he who is prophesying than he who is speaking with tongues, except one may interpret, that the assembly may receive edification.

⁶And now, brethren, if I may come unto you speaking tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either in revelation, or in knowledge, or in prophesying, or in teaching?

⁷yet the things without life giving sound -- whether pipe or harp -- if a difference in the sounds they may not give, how shall be known that which is piped or that which is harped?

⁸for if also an uncertain sound a trumpet may give, who shall prepare himself for battle?

⁹so also ye, if through the tongue, speech easily understood ye may not give -- how shall that which is spoken be known? for ye shall be speaking to air.

¹⁰There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is unmeaning,

¹¹if, then, I do not know the power of the voice, I shall be to him who is speaking a foreigner, and he who is speaking, is to me a foreigner;

¹²so also ye, since ye are earnestly desirous of spiritual gifts, for the building up of the assembly seek that ye may abound;

¹³wherefore he who is speaking in an unknown tongue -- let him pray that he may interpret;

¹⁴for if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit doth pray, and my understanding is unfruitful.

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

¹⁶since, if thou mayest bless with the spirit, he who is filling the place of the unlearned, how shall he say the Amen at thy giving of thanks, since what thou dost say he hath not known?

¹⁷for thou, indeed, dost give thanks well, but the other is not built up!

¹⁸I give thanks to my God -- more than you all with tongues speaking --

¹⁹but in an assembly I wish to speak five words through my understanding, that others also I may instruct, rather than myriads of words in an unknown tongue.

²⁰Brethren, become not children in the understanding, but in the evil be ye babes, and in the understanding become ye perfect;

²¹in the law it hath been written, that, ‘With other tongues and with other lips I will speak to this people, and not even so will they hear Me, saith the Lord;'

²²so that the tongues are for a sign, not to the believing, but to the unbelieving; and the prophesy is not for the unbelieving, but for the believing,

²³If, therefore, the whole assembly may come together, to the same place, and all may speak with tongues, and there may come in unlearned or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?

²⁴and if all may prophecy, and any one may come in, an unbeliever or unlearned, he is convicted by all, he is discerned by all,

²⁵and so the secrets of his heart become manifest, and so having fallen upon his face, he will bow before God, declaring that God really is among you.

²⁶What then is it, brethren? whenever ye may come together, each of you hath a psalm, hath a teaching, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation? let all things be for building up;

²⁷if an unknown tongue any one do speak, by two, or at the most, by three, and in turn, and let one interpret;

²⁸and if there may be no interpreter, let him be silent in an assembly, and to himself let him speak, and to God.

²⁹And prophets -- let two or three speak, and let the others discern,

³⁰and if to another sitting anything may be revealed, let the first be silent;

³¹for ye are able, one by one, all to prophesy, that all may learn, and all may be exhorted,

³²and the spiritual gift of prophets to prophets are subject,

³³for God is not a God of tumult, but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints.

³⁴Your women in the assemblies let them be silent, for it hath not been permitted to them to speak, but to be subject, as also the law saith;

³⁵and if they wish to learn anything, at home their own husbands let them question, for it is a shame to women to speak in an assembly.

³⁶From you did the word of God come forth? or to you alone did it come?

³⁷if any one doth think to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge the things that I write to you -- that of the Lord they are commands;

³⁸and if any one is ignorant -- let him be ignorant;

³⁹so that, brethren, earnestly desire to prophesy, and to speak with tongues do not forbid;

⁴⁰let all things be done decently and in order.