It is written in the law: “By people with strange tongues and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people, yet not even in this way will they listen to me,” says the Lord.

Now I want to make clear for you, brothers and sisters, the gospel that I preached to you, that you received and on which you stand,

in a moment, in the blinking of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

From Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Sosthenes, our brother,

For you were made rich in every way in him, in all your speech and in every kind of knowledge –

I thank God that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius,

And again, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.”

One should think about us this way – as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

We do hard work, toiling with our own hands. When we are verbally abused, we respond with a blessing, when persecuted, we endure,

Or do only Barnabas and I lack the right not to work?

Am I saying these things only on the basis of common sense, or does the law not say this as well?

And do not complain, as some of them did, and were killed by the destroying angel.

for the earth and its abundance are the Lord’s.

Neither was man created for the sake of woman, but woman for man.

For in fact the body is not a single member, but many.

Now you are Christ’s body, and each of you is a member of it.

But you should be eager for the greater gifts. And now I will show you a way that is beyond comparison.

If, for example, the trumpet makes an unclear sound, who will get ready for battle?

There are probably many kinds of languages in the world, and none is without meaning.

Two or three prophets should speak and the others should evaluate what is said.