Look at the people of Israel. Are not those who eat the sacrifices partners in the altar?

So then, brothers and sisters, be eager to prophesy, and do not forbid anyone from speaking in tongues.

And let us not be immoral, as some of them were, and twenty-three thousand died in a single day.

For even though I am absent physically, I am present in spirit. And I have already judged the one who did this, just as though I were present.

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.

I wish you all spoke in tongues, but even more that you would prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongues, unless he interprets so that the church may be strengthened.

Do you not know that all the runners in a stadium compete, but only one receives the prize? So run to win.

In the same way the Lord commanded those who proclaim the gospel to receive their living by the gospel.

But if there is no interpreter, he should be silent in the church. Let him speak to himself and to God.

For the one who was called in the Lord as a slave is the Lord’s freedman. In the same way, the one who was called as a free person is Christ’s slave.

If someone speaks in a tongue, it should be two, or at the most three, one after the other, and someone must interpret.

Instead we speak the wisdom of God, hidden in a mystery, that God determined before the ages for our glory.

So, brothers and sisters, I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but instead as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.

If you sin against your brothers or sisters in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

For there must in fact be divisions among you, so that those of you who are approved may be evident.

Not all have gifts of healing, do they? Not all speak in tongues, do they? Not all interpret, do they?

also to submit to people like this, and to everyone who cooperates in the work and labors hard.

For the wisdom of this age is foolishness with God. As it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness.”

If after all there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many gods and many lords),

and by which you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message I preached to you – unless you believed in vain.