20 When ye come together therefore into one place, thisis not to eat the Lord's supper.
21 For in eating every one taketh before otherhis own supper: and one is hungry, and another is
drunken.
22 What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shame
them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise younot.
23 For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the
samenight in which he was betrayed took bread:
24 And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is
broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.
25 After the same manner also he tookthe cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new
testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.
26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he
come.
27 Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink thiscup of the Lord, unworthily, shall
be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.
28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of thatbread, and drink of thatcup.
29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not
discerning the Lord's body.
30 For this cause many areweak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
31 For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
32 But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned
with the world.
33 Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another.
34 And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation.
And the rest will I set in order when I come.
1 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant.
2 Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.
3 Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus
accursed: and thatno man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.
4 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
5 And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.
6 And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.
7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.
8 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the
same Spirit;
9 To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
10 To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to
another diverskinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:
11 But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as
he will.
12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being
many, are one body: so also isChrist.
13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we beJews or Gentiles,
whether we bebond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
14 For the body is not one member, but many.
15 If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of
the body?
16 And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of
the body?

17 If the whole body werean eye, where werethe hearing? If the whole werehearing, where
werethe smelling?
18 But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.
19 And if they were all one member, where werethe body?
20 But now are theymany members, yet but one body.
21 And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I
have no need of you.
22 Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:
23 And those membersof the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow
more abundant honour; and our uncomely partshave more abundant comeliness.
24 For our comely partshave no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given
more abundant honour to that partwhich lacked:
25 That there should be no schism in the body; but thatthe members should have the same care
one for another.
26 And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured,
all the members rejoice with it.
27 Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
28 And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers,
after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.
29 Areall apostles? areall prophets? areall teachers? areall workers of miracles?
30 Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?
31 But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.
1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as
sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
2 And though I have the gift ofprophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and
though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and
have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
4 Charity suffereth long, andis kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not
puffed up,
5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no
evil;
6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
8 Charity never faileth: but whether there beprophecies, they shall fail; whether there be
tongues, they shall cease; whether there beknowledge, it shall vanish away.
9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when
I became a man, I put away childish things.
12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then
shall I know even as also I am known.
13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these ischarity.
1 Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.
2 For he that speaketh in an unknowntongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man
understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.
3 But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men toedification, and exhortation, and comfort.
4 He that speaketh in an unknowntongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the
church.

5 I would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied: for greater ishe that
prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may
receive edifying.
6 Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I
shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine?
7 And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a
distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?
8 For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?
9 So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be
known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air.
10 There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them iswithout
signification.
11 Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a
barbarian, and he that speaketh shall bea barbarian unto me.
12 Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the
edifying of the church.
13 Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknowntongue pray that he may interpret.
14 For if I pray in an unknowntongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.
15 What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I
will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
16 Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupieth the room of the
unlearned say Amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest?
17 For thou verily givest thanks well, but the other is not edified.
18 I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all:
19 Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voiceI
might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknowntongue.
20 Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in
understanding be men.
21 In the law it is written, With men ofother tongues and other lips will I speak unto this
people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord.
22 Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but
prophesying servethnot for them that believe not, but for them which believe.
23 If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues,
and there come in those that areunlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?
24 But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not, or oneunlearned, he is
convinced of all, he is judged of all:
25 And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling down on hisface he will
worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth.
26 How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a
doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto
edifying.
27 If any man speak in an unknowntongue, let it beby two, or at the most bythree, and thatby
course; and let one interpret.
28 But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to
himself, and to God.
29 Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge.
30 If any thingbe revealed to another that sitteth by, let the first hold his peace.
31 For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.
32 And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.