Hi, and welcome
to His Words Are Life
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I'm Kelly Mowrer. Today we
are going to continue reading
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in 1 Corinthians and chapter 14.
Before we start, let's just pray
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together. Dear God, when we were
last together we read your words
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about love and You've told
us that the way that the whole
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world will know that we belong
to You is the love that we show
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one for another. Give us the
kind of love that we read about
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in 1 Corinthians 13; love that
is not envious, doesn't seek
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it's own exaltation, but seeks
to build up those around us
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Make us more like You. We want
to be like You. We want to see
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You in this time together now
and then when we come to the end
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of this time together,
we want to be changed -
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to be a little closer to
You. We love You so much. Amen
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We are reading from the
King James Version, 1 Cor. 14:12
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Even so as ye are
zealous of spiritual gifts, seek
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that ye may excel to
the edifying of the church,
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wherefore let him that speaketh
in an unknown tongue pray that
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he may interpret, for if
I pray in an unknown tongue,
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my spirit prayeth, but my
understanding is unfruitful.
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What is it then? I
will pray with the spirit,
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and I will pray
with understanding also.
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I will sing with the
spirit, and I will sing
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with the understanding also.
else when thou shalt bless with
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the spirit, how shall he
that occupieth the room of the
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unlearned say Amen at thy
giving of thanks, seeing he
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understandeth
not what thou sayest?
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For thou verily givest
thanks well, but the other
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is not edified. I thank
my God, I speak with tongues
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more than ye all: yet in the
church I had rather speak five
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words with my understanding,
that by my voice I might teach
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others also, than 10,000
words in an unknown tongue.
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Brethren, be not children in
understanding, howbeit in malice
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be ye children, but
in understanding be men.
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In the law it is written,
With men of other tongues
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and other lips will I speak unto
this people; and yet for all
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that will they not
hear me, saith the Lord.
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Wherefore tongues are for a
sign, not to them that believe,
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but to them that believe not:
but prophesying serveth not for
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them that believeth not,
but for them which believe.
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If therefore the whole church
be come together into one place,
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and all speak with tongues,
and there come in those that are
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unlearned or unbelievers, will
they not say that ye are mad?
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But if all prophecy, and there
come in one that believeth not,
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or one unlearned, he is
convinced of all, he is judged
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of all. And thus are the
secrets of his heart made
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manifest; and so falling down on
his face, he will worship God,
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and report that God
is in you of a truth.
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How is it then, brethren? when
ye come together, every one of
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you hath a psalm, hath
a doctrine hath a tongue,
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hath a revelation,
hath an interpretation.
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Let all things be
done unto edifying.
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If any man speak in an unknown
tongue, let it be by two,
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or at the most, by
three, and that by course;
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and let one interpret.
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But if there be no interpreter,
let him keep silence
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in the church. And let him
speak to himself, and to God.
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Let the prophets speak two or
three, and let the other judge.
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If anything be revealed
to another that sitteth by,
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let the first hold his peace.
For ye may all prophesy one by
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one, that all may learn,
and all may be comforted.
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And the spirits of the prophets
are subject to the prophets.
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For God is not the author of
confusion, but of peace, as in
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all churches of the saints.
Let your women keep silence in
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the churches: for it is not
permitted unto them to speak;
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but if they are commanded
to be under obedience, as also
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sayeth the law. And if they will
learn any thing, let them ask
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their husbands at home: for
it is a shame for women to speak
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in the church. What? came
the word of God out from you?
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or came it unto you only? If
any man think himself to be a
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prophet, or spiritual, let
him acknowledge that the things
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that I write unto you are
the commandments of the Lord.
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But if any man be
ignorant, let him be ignorant.
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Wherefore, brethren, covet
to prophesy, and forbid not
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to speak with tongues. Let
all things be done decently
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and in order. We are reading
from 1 Corinthians chapter 15
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This is the King James Version.
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Moreover brethren, I declare
unto you the gospel, which I
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preached unto you, which also
ye have received and wherein ye
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stand; by which also ye
are saved if ye keep in memory
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what I have preached unto you,
unless ye have believed in vain.
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For I delivered unto you
first of all that which I also
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received, how that Christ died
for our sins according to the
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scriptures: And that He was
buried, and that he rose again
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the third day according to the
scriptures: And that He was seen
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of Cephas, then of the twelve:
after that, he was seen of about
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500 brethren at once; of
whom the greater part remain
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unto this present, but
some are fallen asleep.
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After that he was seen of
James then of all the apostles.
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And last of all he was seen of
me also, as of one born out of
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due time. For I am the least of
the apostles, that am not meet
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to be called an apostle,
because I persecuted the church
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of God. But by the grace of God
I am what I am: and his grace
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which was bestowed upon me
was not in vain; but I laboured
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more abundantly than they all,
yet not I, but the grace of God
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which was with me. Therefore
whether it were I or they,
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so we preach and so we believed.
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Now if Christ be preached
that he rose from the dead,
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how say some among you
that there is no resurrection
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of the dead? But if there be no
resurrection of the dead, then
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is Christ not risen: And if
Christ is not risen, then is our
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preaching vain, and
your faith is also vain.
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Yea, and we are found false
witnesses of God; because we
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have testified of God
that he raised up Christ:
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Whom he raised not up, if
so be that the dead rise not.
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For if the dead rise not,
then is Christ not raised.
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And if Christ be not
raised, your faith is vain;
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ye are yet in your sins.
Then they also which are fallen
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asleep in Christ are perished.
If in this life only we have
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hope in Christ, we are
of all men most miserable.
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But now is Christ risen from the
the dead, and become the first-
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fruits of them that slept.
For since by man came death,
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by man came also the
resurrection of the dead.
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For as in Adam all die, even
so in Christ shall all be made
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alive. But every man in his own
order: Christ the firstfruits;
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afterward they that
are Christ's at His coming.
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Then cometh the end, when
He shall have delivered up the
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kingdom to God, even the Father;
when He shall have put down all
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rule and all authority
and power. For he must reign,
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until He hath put all
enemies under His feet.
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The last enemy that
shall be destroyed is death.
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For he hath put all things
under His feet. But when he
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saith all things are put under
him, it is manifest that He
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is excepted, which did
put all things under him.
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And when all things shall by
subdued unto him, then shall the
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Son also himself be subject unto
him that put all things under
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him, that God may be all in
all. Else what shall they do
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which are baptized for the dead?
if the dead rise not at all?
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why are they then
baptized for the dead?
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And why stand we in
jeopardy every hour?
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I protest by your rejoicing
which I have in Christ Jesus
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our Lord, I die daily. If after
the manner of men I have fought
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with beasts at Ephesus, what
advantageth it me, if the dead
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rise not? let us eat and
drink; for tomorrow we die.
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Be not deceived: evil
communications corrupt good
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manners. Awake to righteousness,
and sin not; for some have not
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the knowledge of God: I
speak this to your shame.
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But some man will say,
How are the dead raised up?
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and with what body do they
come? Thou fool, that which thou
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sowest is not quickened,
except it die: And that which
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thou sowest, thou sowest
not that body that shall be,
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but bear grain, it may chance
of wheat or of some other grain:
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But God gives it a body as it
hath pleased him, and to every
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seed his own body. All
flesh is not the same flesh:
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but there is one kind of flesh
of men, another flesh of beasts,
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another of fishes and another of
birds. There are also celestial
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bodies and bodies terrestrial:
but the glory of the celestial
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is one and the glory of
the terrestrial is another.
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There is one glory of the sun,
and another glory of the moon,
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and another glory of the
stars: for one star differeth
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from another star in glory,
so also is the resurrection
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of the dead.
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It is sown in corruption,
it is raised in incorruption.
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It is sown in
dishonor; it is raised in glory.
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It is sown in
weakness, it is raised in power.
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It is sown a natural body.
It is raised a spiritual body.
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There is a natural body,
and there is a spiritual body.
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And so it is written, The first
man Adam was made a living soul.
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The last Adam was
made a quickening spirit.
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Howbeit that was not
first which is spiritual,
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but that which is
natural. And afterward
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that which is spiritual.
The first man is of the earth,
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earthy. The second man
is the Lord from heaven.
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As is the earthy, such
are they also that are earthy.
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And as is the heavenly, such
are they also that are heavenly.
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And as we have borne the image
of the earthy, we shall also
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bear the image of the heavenly.
Now this I say brethren,
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that flesh and blood cannot
inherit the kingdom of God;
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neither doth
corruption inherit incorruption.
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Behold, I shew you a
mystery; We shall not all sleep,
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but we shall all be changed,
in a moment, in the twinkling
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of an eye at the last trump: for
the trumpet shall sound, and the
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dead shall be raised
incorruptible, and we
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shall be changed. For
this corruptible must put on
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incorruption, and this
mortal must put on immortality,
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so when this corruptible shall
have put on incorruption, and
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this mortal shall have put
on immortality, then shall be
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brought to pass the saying that
is written, Death is swallowed
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up in victory. O death, where
is thy sting? O grave, where is
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thy victory? The sting of death
is sin; and the strength of sin
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is the law. But thanks be to
God which giveth us the victory
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through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Therefore, my beloved brethren
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be ye steadfast, unmovable,
always abounding in the work
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of the Lord, forasmuch as ye
know that your labor is not in
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vain in the Lord. We are
reading from 1 Corinthians
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beginning now chapter 16.
This is the King James version.
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Now concerning the collection
for the saints, as I have given
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order to the churches
of Galatia even so do ye.
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Upon the first day of the week
let every one of you lay by him
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in store, as God hath prospered
him, that there be no gatherings
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when I come. And when I come,
whomsoever ye shall approve
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by your letters, them will I
send to bring your liberality
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unto Jerusalem. And if
it be meet that I go also,
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they shall go with me. Now I
will come unto you, when I shall
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pass through Macedonia: for
I do pass through Macedonia.
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And it may be that I will
abide, yea, and winter with you,
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that ye may bring me on my
journey whithersoever I go.
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For I will not see you now by
the way; but I trust to tarry a
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while with you, if the
Lord permit. But I will tarry at
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Ephesus until Pentecost.
For a great door and effectual
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is opened unto me and
there are many adversaries.
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Now, is Timotheus come, see that
he may be with you without fear
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for he worketh the work
of the Lord, as I also do.
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Let no man therefore despise him
but conduct him forth in peace,
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that he may come unto me: for I
look for him with the brethren.
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As touching our brother Apollos,
I greatly desired him to come
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unto you with the brethren:
but his will was not at all to
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come at this time; but he
will come when he shall have
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convenient time. Watch ye, stand
fast in the faith, quit you like
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men. Be strong. Let all your
things be done with charity.
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I beseech you, brethren, ye know
the house of Stephanas, that it
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is the firstfruits of Achaia,
and that they have addicted
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themselves to the
ministry of the saints,
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that ye submit yourselves
unto such, and to every one that
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helpeth with us, and laboureth.
I am glad of the coming of
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Stephanas and Fortunatus
and Achaicus: for that which was
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lacking on your part they
have supplied. For they have
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refreshed my spirit
and yours: therefore
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acknowledge ye
them that are such.
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Thank you for
reading with me today.
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Let's close by
taking these words from Paul
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and putting them in our
hearts. Therefore be steadfast
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unmovable, always abounding
in the work of the Lord.
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Thank you and Goodbye.
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