1 Corinthians 10 - 14
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For I want you to know, brothers, that our fathers were all under b the cloud, and all c passed through the sea,
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and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea,
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and d all ate the same e spiritual food,
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and f all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ.
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Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased, for g they were overthrown in the wilderness.
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Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as h they did.
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i Do not be idolaters j as some of them were; as it is written, k "The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play."
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l We must not indulge in sexual immorality m as some of them did, and n twenty-three thousand fell in a single day.
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We must not put Christ to the test, o as some of them did and p were destroyed by serpents,
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nor grumble, q as some of them did and r were destroyed by s the Destroyer.
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Now these things happened to them as an example, but t they were written down for our instruction, u on whom the end of the ages has come.
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Therefore v let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall.
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No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. w God is faithful, and x he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
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Therefore, my beloved, y flee from idolatry.
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I speak z as to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say.
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a The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? b The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?
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Because there is one bread, we who are many are c one body, for we all partake of the one bread.
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Consider d the people of Israel: e are not those who eat the sacrifices participants in the altar?
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What do I imply then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that f an idol is anything?
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No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice g they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons.
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h You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and i the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and j the table of demons.
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k Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy? l Are we stronger than he?
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m "All things are lawful," but not all things are helpful. "All things are lawful," but not all things build up.
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n Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor.
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o Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without raising any question on the ground of conscience.
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For p "the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof."
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If one of the unbelievers invites you to dinner and you are disposed to go, q eat whatever is set before you without raising any question on the ground of conscience.
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But if someone says to you, "This has been offered in sacrifice," then do not eat it, for the sake of the one who informed you, and for the sake of conscience -
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I do not mean r your conscience, but his. For s why should my liberty be determined by someone else's conscience?
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If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of that t for which I give thanks?
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So, whether you eat or drink, or u whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
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v Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to w the church of God,
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just as x I try to please everyone in everything I do, y not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved.
1 Corinthians 11
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z Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.
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Now I commend you a because you remember me in everything and b maintain the traditions c even as I delivered them to you.
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But I want you to understand that d the head of every man is Christ, e the head of a wife is her husband, and f the head of Christ is God.
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Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head,
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but every wife who prays or g prophesies h with her head uncovered dishonors her head, since it is the same i as if her head were shaven.
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For if a wife will not cover her head, then she should cut her hair short. But since it is disgraceful for a wife to cut off her hair or shave her head, let her cover her head.
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For a man ought not to cover his head, since j he is the image and glory of God, but k woman is the glory of man.
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For l man was not made from woman, but woman from man.
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Neither was man created for woman, but m woman for man.
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That is why a wife ought to have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels.
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Nevertheless, n in the Lord woman is not independent of man nor man of woman;
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for as woman was made from man, so man is now born of woman. And o all things are from God.
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Judge for yourselves: is it proper for a wife to pray to God with her head uncovered?
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Does not nature itself teach you that if a man wears long hair it is a disgrace for him,
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but if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For her hair is given to her for a covering.
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p If anyone is inclined to be contentious, we have no such practice, nor do q the churches of God.
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But in the following instructions I do not commend you, because when you come together it is not for the better but for the worse.
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For, in the first place, when you come together as a church, r I hear that there are divisions among you. And I believe it in part,
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for s there must be factions among you in order t that those who are genuine among you may be recognized.
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When you come together, it is not the Lord's supper that you eat.
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For in eating, each one goes ahead with his own meal. One goes hungry, u another gets drunk.
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What! Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise v the church of God and w humiliate those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I commend you in this? No, I will not.
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For x I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that y the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread,
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and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, "This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me."
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In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me."
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For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death z until he comes.
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a Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord b in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning c the body and blood of the Lord.
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d Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup.
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For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself.
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That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some e have died.
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f But if we judged ourselves truly, we would not be judged.
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But when we are judged by the Lord, g we are disciplined so that we may not be h condemned along with the world.
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So then, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another -
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i if anyone is hungry, j let him eat at home - so that when you come together it will not be for judgment. About the other things k I will give directions l when I come.
1 Corinthians 12
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Now m concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed.
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You know that n when you were pagans o you were led astray to p mute idols, however you were led.
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Therefore I want you to understand that q no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says "Jesus is r accursed!" and s no one can say "Jesus is Lord" except in the Holy Spirit.
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Now t there are varieties of gifts, but u the same Spirit;
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and v there are varieties of service, but u the same Lord;
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and there are varieties of activities, but it is u the same God who empowers them all in everyone.
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w To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.
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For to one is given through the Spirit the utterance of x wisdom, and to another the utterance of y knowledge according to the same Spirit,
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to another z faith by the same Spirit, to another a gifts of healing by the one Spirit,
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to another b the working of miracles, to another c prophecy, to another d the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another e various kinds of tongues, to another f the interpretation of tongues.
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All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit, g who apportions to each one individually h as he wills.
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For just as i the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, j so it is with Christ.
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For k in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body - l Jews or Greeks, slaves or free - and m all were made to drink of one Spirit.
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For the body does not consist of one member but of many.
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If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body," that would not make it any less a part of the body.
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And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body," that would not make it any less a part of the body.
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If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell?
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But as it is, n God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, o as he chose.
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If all were a single member, where would the body be?
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As it is, there are many parts, yet one body.
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The eye cannot say to the hand, "I have no need of you," nor again the head to the feet, "I have no need of you."
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On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable,
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and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty,
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which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it,
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that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.
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If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, p all rejoice together.
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Now q you are the body of Christ and individually r members of it.
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And s God has appointed in the church first t apostles, second u prophets, third teachers, then v miracles, then w gifts of healing, x helping, y administrating, and v various kinds of tongues.
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Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles?
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Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?
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But z earnestly desire the higher gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way.
1 Corinthians 13
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If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
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And if I have a prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, b so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
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c If I give away all I have, and d if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
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e Love is patient and f kind; love g does not envy or boast; it h is not arrogant
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or rude. It i does not insist on its own way; it j is not irritable or resentful;
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it k does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but l rejoices with the truth.
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m Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, e endures all things.
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Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
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For n we know in part and we prophesy in part,
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but o when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.
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When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.
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For p now we see in a mirror dimly, but q then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as r I have been fully known.
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So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 14
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s Pursue love, and t earnestly desire the u spiritual gifts, especially that you may v prophesy.
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For w one who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men but to God; for no one understands him, but he utters mysteries in the Spirit.
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On the other hand, the one who prophesies speaks to people for their upbuilding and encouragement and consolation.
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The one who speaks in a tongue builds up himself, but the one who prophesies builds up the church.
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Now I want you all to speak in tongues, but x even more to prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongues, unless someone interprets, so that the church may be built up.
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Now, brothers, if I come to you speaking in tongues, how will I benefit you unless I bring you some y revelation or knowledge or prophecy or z teaching?
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If even lifeless instruments, such as the flute or the harp, do not give distinct notes, how will anyone know what is played?
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And a if the bugle gives an indistinct sound, who will get ready for battle?
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So with yourselves, if with your tongue you utter speech that is not intelligible, how will anyone know what is said? For you will be b speaking into the air.
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There are doubtless many different languages in the world, and none is without meaning,
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but if I do not know the meaning of the language, I will be c a foreigner to the speaker and the speaker a foreigner to me.
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So with yourselves, since you are eager for manifestations of the Spirit, strive to excel in building up the church.
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Therefore, one who speaks in a tongue should pray for the power to interpret.
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For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays but my mind is unfruitful.
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What am I to do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will pray with my mind also; d I will sing praise with my spirit, but I will e sing with my mind also.
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Otherwise, if you give thanks with your spirit, how can anyone in the position of an outsider say f "Amen" to g your thanksgiving when he does not know what you are saying?
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For you may be giving thanks well enough, but the other person is not being built up.
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I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you.
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Nevertheless, in church I would rather speak five words with my mind in order to instruct others, than ten thousand words in a tongue.
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Brothers, h do not be children in your thinking. i Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be j mature.
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k In the Law it is written, l "By people of strange tongues and by the lips of foreigners will I speak to this people, and even then they will not listen to me, says the Lord."
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Thus tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers, while prophecy is a sign not for unbelievers but for believers.
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If, therefore, the whole church comes together and all speak in tongues, and outsiders or unbelievers enter, m will they not say that you are out of your minds?
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But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or outsider enters, he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all,
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n the secrets of his heart are disclosed, and so, o falling on his face, he will worship God and p declare that God is really among you.
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What then, brothers? When you come together, each one has q a hymn, r a lesson, r a revelation, s a tongue, or t an interpretation. u Let all things be done for building up.
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If any speak in s a tongue, let there be only two or at most three, and each in turn, and let someone interpret.
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But if there is no one to interpret, let each of them keep silent in church and speak to himself and to God.
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Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others v weigh what is said.
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If a revelation is made to another sitting there, w let the first be silent.
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For you can all prophesy one by one, so that all may learn and all be encouraged,
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and the spirits of prophets are subject to prophets.
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For God is not a God of x confusion but of peace. As in y all the churches of the saints,
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z the women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but a should be in submission, as b the Law also says.
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If there is anything they desire to learn, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church.
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Or was it from you that the word of God came? Or are you the only ones it has reached?
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c If anyone thinks that he is a prophet, or spiritual, he should acknowledge that the things I am writing to you are a command of the Lord.
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If anyone does not recognize this, he is not recognized.
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So, my brothers, d earnestly desire to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues.
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e But all things should be done decently and f in order.
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Exodus 13:21
And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them along the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, that they might travel by day and by night.
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Exodus 14:22
And the people of Israel went into the midst of the sea on dry ground, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.
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Exodus 16:15
When the people of Israel saw it, they said to ...
Exodus 16:35
The people of Israel ate the manna forty years,...
Deuteronomy 8:3
And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed y...
Nehemiah 9:15
You gave them bread from heaven for their hunge...
Nehemiah 9:20
You gave your good Spirit to instruct them and ...
Psalms 78:24
And he rained down on them manna to eat and gav...
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Psalms 78:25
Man ate of the bread of the angels; he sent them food in abundance.
Psalms 105:40
They asked, and he brought quail, and gave them bread from heaven in abundance.
John 6:31
Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, 'He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'
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Exodus 17:6
Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb, and you shall strike the rock, and water shall come out of it, and the people will drink." And Moses did so, in the sight of the elders of Israel.
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Numbers 14:29
Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness,...
Numbers 14:37
The men who brought up a bad report of the land...
Numbers 26:64 - 65
But among these there was not one of those list...
Psalms 106:26
Therefore he raised his hand and swore to them ...
Hebrews 3:17
And with whom was he provoked for forty years? ...
Jude 1:5
Now I want to remind you, although you once ful...
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Numbers 11:4
Now the rabble that was among them had a strong craving. And the people of Israel also wept again and said, "Oh that we had meat to eat!
Numbers 11:33 - 34
While the meat was yet between their teeth, before it was consumed, the anger of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord struck down the people with a very great plague.
Psalms 78:18
They tested God in their heart by demanding the food they craved.
Psalms 106:14
But they had a wanton craving in the wilderness, and put God to the test in the desert.
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1 Corinthians 10:14
Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.
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Exodus 32:4
And he received the gold from their hand and fashioned it with a graving tool and made a golden calf. And they said, "These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!
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Exodus 32:6
And they rose up early the next day and offered burnt offerings and brought peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.
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Exodus 32:6
And they rose up early the next day and offered burnt offerings and brought peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.
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1 Corinthians 6:18
Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.
Acts 15:20
But should write to them to abstain from the things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what has been strangled, and from blood.
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Numbers 25:1
While Israel lived in Shittim, the people began to whore with the daughters of Moab.
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Numbers 25:9
Nevertheless, those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.
Psalms 106:29
They provoked the Lord to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.
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Numbers 21:5
And the people spoke against God and against Moses, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we loathe this worthless food.
Exodus 17:2
Therefore the people quarreled with Moses and said, "Give us water to drink." And Moses said to them, "Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the Lord ?
Exodus 17:7
And he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the quarreling of the people of Israel, and because they tested the Lord by saying, "Is the Lord among us or not?
Psalms 78:18
They tested God in their heart by demanding the food they craved.
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Numbers 21:6
Then the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died.
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Numbers 14:2
And all the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, "Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would that we had died in this wilderness!
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Numbers 14:29 - 37
Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness, and of all your number, listed in the census from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against me.
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Exodus 12:23
For the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians, and when he sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you.
2 Samuel 24:16
And when the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord relented from the calamity and said to the angel who was working destruction among the people, "It is enough; now stay your hand." And the angel of the Lord was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
1 Chronicles 21:15
And God sent the angel to Jerusalem to destroy it, but as he was about to destroy it, the Lord saw, and he relented from the calamity. And he said to the angel who was working destruction, "It is enough; now stay your hand." And the angel of the Lord was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
Psalms 78:49
He let loose on them his burning anger, wrath, indignation, and distress, a company of destroying angels.
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Romans 4:23
But the words "it was counted to him" were not written for his sake alone.
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Romans 13:11
Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed.
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Romans 11:20
That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand fast through faith. So do not become proud, but fear.
2 Peter 3:17
You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability.
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1 Corinthians 1:9
God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
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Daniel 3:17
If this be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.
2 Peter 2:9
Then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment.
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1 Corinthians 10:7
Do not be idolaters as some of them were; as it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.
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1 Corinthians 8:1
Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that "all of us possess knowledge." This "knowledge" puffs up, but love builds up.
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1 Corinthians 11:25
In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.
Matthew 26:27 - 28
And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, "Drink of it, all of you.
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1 Corinthians 11:23 - 24
For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread.
Matthew 26:26
Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, "Take, eat; this is my body.
Acts 2:42
And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.
Acts 20:7
On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and he prolonged his speech until midnight.
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1 Corinthians 12:12 - 13
For just as the body is one and has many member...
1 Corinthians 12:20
As it is, there are many parts, yet one body.
Romans 12:5
So we, though many, are one body in Christ, and...
Ephesians 4:4
There is one body and one Spirit - just as you ...
Ephesians 4:16
From whom the whole body, joined and held toget...
Colossians 3:15
And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts...
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Romans 1:3
Concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh
Romans 4:1
What then shall we say was gained by Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh?
Romans 9:5
To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.
2 Corinthians 11:18
Since many boast according to the flesh, I too will boast.
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Leviticus 3:3
And from the sacrifice of the peace offering, as a food offering to the Lord, he shall offer the fat covering the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails.
Leviticus 7:15
And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten on the day of his offering. He shall not leave any of it until the morning.
Hebrews 13:10
We have an altar from which those who serve the tent have no right to eat.
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1 Corinthians 8:4
Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that "an idol has no real existence," and that "there is no God but one.
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Deuteronomy 32:17
They sacrificed to demons that were no gods, to gods they had never known, to new gods that had come recently, whom your fathers had never dreaded.
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2 Corinthians 6:15 - 16
What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever?
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Deuteronomy 32:38
Who ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offering? Let them rise up and help you; let them be your protection!
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Isaiah 65:11
But you who forsake the Lord, who forget my holy mountain, who set a table for Fortune and fill cups of mixed wine for Destiny.
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Deuteronomy 32:21
They have made me jealous with what is no god; they have provoked me to anger with their idols. So I will make them jealous with those who are no people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
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Ecclesiastes 6:10
Whatever has come to be has already been named, and it is known what man is, and that he is not able to dispute with one stronger than he.
Ezekiel 22:14
Can your courage endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with you? I the Lord have spoken, and I will do it.
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1 Corinthians 6:12
All things are lawful for me," but not all things are helpful. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be enslaved by anything.
1 Corinthians 8:9
But take care that this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak.
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1 Corinthians 10:33
Just as I try to please everyone in everything ...
1 Corinthians 13:5
Or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it ...
Philippians 2:21
For they all seek their own interests, not thos...
1 Corinthians 9:23
I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I ...
2 Corinthians 12:14
Here for the third time I am ready to come to y...
Romans 15:1
We who are strong have an obligation to bear wi...
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1 Corinthians 8:7
However, not all possess this knowledge. But some, through former association with idols, eat food as really offered to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
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Psalms 24:1
The earth is the Lord 's and the fullness there...
Exodus 9:29
Moses said to him, "As soon as I have gone out ...
Exodus 19:5
Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice...
Deuteronomy 10:14
Behold, to the Lord your God belong heaven and ...
Job 41:11
Who has first given to me, that I should repay ...
Psalms 50:12
If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the...
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Psalms 24:1
The earth is the Lord 's and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein.
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Luke 10:8
Whenever you enter a town and they receive you, eat what is set before you.
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1 Corinthians 8:9 - 12
But take care that this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak.
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1 Corinthians 9:19
For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them.
Romans 14:16
So do not let what you regard as good be spoken of as evil.
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Romans 14:6
The one who observes the day, observes it in honor of the Lord. The one who eats, eats in honor of the Lord, since he gives thanks to God, while the one who abstains, abstains in honor of the Lord and gives thanks to God.
1 Timothy 4:3 - 4
Who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
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Colossians 3:17
And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
1 Peter 4:11
Whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies - in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
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1 Corinthians 8:13
Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.
Romans 14:13
Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.
2 Corinthians 6:3
We put no obstacle in anyone's way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry.
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1 Corinthians 11:16
If anyone is inclined to be contentious, we have no such practice, nor do the churches of God.
Acts 20:28
Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.
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1 Corinthians 9:22
To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some.
Galatians 1:10
For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ.
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1 Corinthians 10:24
Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor.
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1 Corinthians 4:16
I urge you, then, be imitators of me.
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1 Corinthians 4:17
That is why I sent you Timothy, my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, to remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach them everywhere in every church.
1 Thessalonians 3:6
But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has brought us the good news of your faith and love and reported that you always remember us kindly and long to see us, as we long to see you -
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2 Thessalonians 2:15
So then, brothers, stand firm and hold to the traditions that you were taught by us, either by our spoken word or by our letter.
2 Thessalonians 3:6
Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from any brother who is walking in idleness and not in accord with the tradition that you received from us.
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1 Thessalonians 4:1 - 2
Finally, then, brothers, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, just as you are doing, that you do so more and more.
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Ephesians 1:22
And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church.
Ephesians 4:15
Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ.
Ephesians 5:23
For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.
Colossians 1:18
And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.
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Genesis 3:16
To the woman he said, "I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.
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1 Corinthians 3:23
And you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.
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Luke 2:36
And there was a prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was advanced in years, having lived with her husband seven years from when she was a virgin.
Acts 21:9
He had four unmarried daughters, who prophesied.
1 Corinthians 14:34
The women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says.
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Numbers 5:18
And the priest shall set the woman before the Lord and unbind the hair of the woman's head and place in her hands the grain offering of remembrance, which is the grain offering of jealousy. And in his hand the priest shall have the water of bitterness that brings the curse.
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Deuteronomy 21:12
And you bring her home to your house, she shall shave her head and pare her nails.
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Genesis 1:26
Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.
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Proverbs 12:4
An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.
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Genesis 2:21 - 23
So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh.
1 Timothy 2:13
For Adam was formed first, then Eve.
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Genesis 2:18
Then the Lord God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.
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Galatians 3:28
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
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Romans 11:36
For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.
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1 Timothy 6:3 - 4
If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness.
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2 Thessalonians 1:4
Therefore we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions that you are enduring.
1 Thessalonians 2:14
For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For you suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews.
1 Corinthians 7:17
Only let each person lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him, and to which God has called him. This is my rule in all the churches.
1 Corinthians 10:32
Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God.
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1 Corinthians 1:10 - 12
I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment.
1 Corinthians 3:3
For you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way?
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Matthew 18:7
Woe to the world for temptations to sin! For it is necessary that temptations come, but woe to the one by whom the temptation comes!
Luke 17:1
And he said to his disciples, "Temptations to sin are sure to come, but woe to the one through whom they come!
Acts 20:30
And from among your own selves will arise men speaking twisted things, to draw away the disciples after them.
1 Timothy 4:1
Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons.
2 Peter 2:1
But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.
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1 John 2:19
They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us.
Deuteronomy 13:3
You shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For the Lord your God is testing you, to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
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2 Peter 2:13
Suffering wrong as the wage for their wrongdoing. They count it pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, while they feast with you.
Jude 1:12
These are hidden reefs at your love feasts, as they feast with you without fear, shepherds feeding themselves; waterless clouds, swept along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted.
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Acts 20:28
Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.
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Proverbs 17:5
Whoever mocks the poor insults his Maker; he who is glad at calamity will not go unpunished.
James 2:6
But you have dishonored the poor man. Are not the rich the ones who oppress you, and the ones who drag you into court?
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1 Corinthians 15:3
For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures.
Galatians 1:12
For I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ.
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1 Corinthians 11:23 - 25
For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread.
Matthew 26:26 - 28
Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, "Take, eat; this is my body.
Mark 14:22 - 24
And as they were eating, he took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to them, and said, "Take; this is my body.
Luke 22:19 - 20
And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, "This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.
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John 21:22
Jesus said to him, "If it is my will that he remain until I come, what is that to you? You follow me!
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Numbers 9:10
Speak to the people of Israel, saying, If any one of you or of your descendants is unclean through touching a dead body, or is on a long journey, he shall still keep the Passover to the Lord.
Numbers 9:13
But if anyone who is clean and is not on a journey fails to keep the Passover, that person shall be cut off from his people because he did not bring the Lord 's offering at its appointed time; that man shall bear his sin.
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John 13:27
Then after he had taken the morsel, Satan entered into him. Jesus said to him, "What you are going to do, do quickly.
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John 6:51
I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.
John 6:53 - 56
So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.
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2 Corinthians 13:5
Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you? - unless indeed you fail to meet the test!
Galatians 6:4
But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor.
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Matthew 27:52
The tombs also were opened. And many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised.
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1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
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Proverbs 3:11
My son, do not despise the Lord 's discipline or be weary of his reproof.
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Romans 5:16
And the free gift is not like the result of that one man's sin. For the judgment following one trespass brought condemnation, but the free gift following many trespasses brought justification.
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1 Corinthians 11:21
For in eating, each one goes ahead with his own meal. One goes hungry, another gets drunk.
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1 Corinthians 11:22
What! Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I commend you in this? No, I will not.
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1 Corinthians 7:17
Only let each person lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him, and to which God has called him. This is my rule in all the churches.
Titus 1:5
This is why I left you in Crete, so that you might put what remained into order, and appoint elders in every town as I directed you -
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1 Corinthians 4:19
But I will come to you soon, if the Lord wills, and I will find out not the talk of these arrogant people but their power.
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1 Corinthians 14:1
Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.
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Ephesians 2:11 - 12
Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called "the uncircumcision" by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands -
1 Peter 4:3
For the time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry.
1 Corinthians 6:11
And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
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1 Thessalonians 1:9
For they themselves report concerning us the kind of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God.
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Habakkuk 2:18 - 19
What profit is an idol when its maker has shaped it, a metal image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation when he makes speechless idols!
Psalms 115:5
They have mouths, but do not speak; eyes, but do not see.
Isaiah 46:7
They lift it to their shoulders, they carry it, they set it in its place, and it stands there; it cannot move from its place. If one cries to it, it does not answer or save him from his trouble.
Jeremiah 10:5
Their idols are like scarecrows in a cucumber field, and they cannot speak; they have to be carried, for they cannot walk. Do not be afraid of them, for they cannot do evil, neither is it in them to do good.
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1 John 4:2 - 3
By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God.
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Romans 9:3
For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh.
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John 15:26
But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me.
Matthew 16:17
And Jesus answered him, "Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.
Romans 10:9
Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
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Hebrews 2:4
While God also bore witness by signs and wonders and various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will.
Romans 12:6
Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith.
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Ephesians 4:4 - 6
There is one body and one Spirit - just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call -
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Romans 12:7
If service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching.
Ephesians 4:11
And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers.
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1 Corinthians 12:4
Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit.
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1 Corinthians 12:4
Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit.
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Ephesians 4:7
But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ's gift.
1 Corinthians 14:26
What then, brothers? When you come together, each one has a hymn, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. Let all things be done for building up.
Romans 12:3
For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.
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1 Corinthians 2:6 - 7
Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away.
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1 Corinthians 1:5
That in every way you were enriched in him in all speech and all knowledge -
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1 Corinthians 13:2
And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
2 Corinthians 4:13
Since we have the same spirit of faith according to what has been written, "I believed, and so I spoke," we also believe, and so we also speak.
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1 Corinthians 12:28
And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues.
1 Corinthians 12:30
Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?
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1 Corinthians 12:28 - 29
And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues.
Galatians 3:5
Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith -
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1 Corinthians 13:2
And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
1 Corinthians 13:8
Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
1 Corinthians 14:1
Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.
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1 Corinthians 14:29
Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others weigh what is said.
1 John 4:1
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.
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Mark 16:17
And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues.
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1 Corinthians 12:30
Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?
1 Corinthians 14:26
What then, brothers? When you come together, each one has a hymn, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. Let all things be done for building up.
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2 Corinthians 10:13
But we will not boast beyond limits, but will boast only with regard to the area of influence God assigned to us, to reach even to you.
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Hebrews 2:4
While God also bore witness by signs and wonders and various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will.
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1 Corinthians 10:17
Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.
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1 Corinthians 12:27
Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
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Romans 6:5
For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.
Ephesians 2:18
For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.
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Galatians 3:28
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Colossians 3:11
Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.
Ephesians 2:13 - 17
But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
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John 7:37 - 39
On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, "If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.
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1 Corinthians 12:28
And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues.
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1 Corinthians 12:11
All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills.
1 Corinthians 3:5
What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each.
Romans 12:3
For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.
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Romans 12:15
Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.
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Ephesians 1:23
Which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.
Ephesians 4:12
To equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ.
Ephesians 5:30
Because we are members of his body.
Colossians 1:24
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church.
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Romans 12:5
So we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
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1 Corinthians 12:18
But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose.
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Ephesians 4:11
And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers.
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Ephesians 2:20
Built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone.
Ephesians 3:5
Which was not made known to the sons of men in other generations as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit.
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1 Corinthians 12:10
To another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.
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1 Corinthians 12:10
To another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.
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1 Corinthians 12:9
To another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit.
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Acts 20:35
In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'
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Romans 12:8
The one who exhorts, in his exhortation; the one who contributes, in generosity; the one who leads, with zeal; the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.
1 Timothy 5:17
Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching.
Hebrews 13:7
Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God. Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith.
Hebrews 13:17
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.
Hebrews 13:24
Greet all your leaders and all the saints. Those who come from Italy send you greetings.
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1 Corinthians 14:1
Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.
1 Corinthians 14:39
So, my brothers, earnestly desire to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues.
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1 Corinthians 14:1
Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.
1 Corinthians 14:39
So, my brothers, earnestly desire to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues.
Matthew 7:22
On that day many will say to me, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?
Acts 2:18
Even on my male servants and female servants in those days I will pour out my Spirit, and they shall prophesy.
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Matthew 17:20
He said to them, "Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.
Mark 11:23
Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, 'Be taken up and thrown into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him.
Luke 17:6
And the Lord said, "If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it would obey you.
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Matthew 6:2
Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.
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Daniel 3:28
Nebuchadnezzar answered and said, "Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his angel and delivered his servants, who trusted in him, and set aside the king's command, and yielded up their bodies rather than serve and worship any god except their own God.
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Proverbs 10:12
Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.
Proverbs 17:9
Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends.
1 Thessalonians 5:14
And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all.
2 Timothy 2:10
Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
1 Peter 4:8
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.
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2 Corinthians 6:6
By purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, the Holy Spirit, genuine love.
Galatians 5:22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness.
Ephesians 4:32
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Colossians 3:12
Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience.
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Acts 7:9
And the patriarchs, jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt; but God was with him
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1 Corinthians 4:6
I have applied all these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, brothers, that you may learn by us not to go beyond what is written, that none of you may be puffed up in favor of one against another.
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1 Corinthians 10:24
Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor.
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Romans 4:6
Just as David also speaks of the blessing of the one to whom God counts righteousness apart from works:
2 Corinthians 5:19
That is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.
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Romans 1:32
Though they know God's decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.
2 Thessalonians 2:12
In order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
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2 John 1:4
I rejoiced greatly to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as we were commanded by the Father.
3 John 1:3 - 4
For I rejoiced greatly when the brothers came and testified to your truth, as indeed you are walking in the truth.
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1 Corinthians 9:12
If others share this rightful claim on you, do not we even more? Nevertheless, we have not made use of this right, but we endure anything rather than put an obstacle in the way of the gospel of Christ.
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1 Corinthians 13:4
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant
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1 Corinthians 8:2
If anyone imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know.
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John 15:15
No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
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James 1:23
For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror.
Numbers 12:8
With him I speak mouth to mouth, clearly, and not in riddles, and he beholds the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?
Job 36:26
Behold, God is great, and we know him not; the number of his years is unsearchable.
2 Corinthians 3:18
And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.
2 Corinthians 5:7
For we walk by faith, not by sight.
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1 John 3:2
Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.
Matthew 5:8
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
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1 Corinthians 8:3
But if anyone loves God, he is known by God.
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1 Corinthians 16:14
Let all that you do be done in love.
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1 Corinthians 12:31
But earnestly desire the higher gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way.
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1 Corinthians 12:1
Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed.
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1 Corinthians 11:4
Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head.
1 Corinthians 13:2
And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
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1 Corinthians 14:18 - 23
I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you.
1 Corinthians 14:27 - 28
If any speak in a tongue, let there be only two or at most three, and each in turn, and let someone interpret.
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Numbers 11:29
But Moses said to him, "Are you jealous for my sake? Would that all the Lord 's people were prophets, that the Lord would put his Spirit on them!
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1 Corinthians 14:26
What then, brothers? When you come together, each one has a hymn, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. Let all things be done for building up.
Ephesians 1:17
That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him.
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1 Corinthians 14:26
What then, brothers? When you come together, each one has a hymn, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. Let all things be done for building up.
Acts 2:42
And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.
Romans 6:17
But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed.
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Numbers 10:9
And when you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets, that you may be remembered before the Lord your God, and you shall be saved from your enemies.
Isaiah 58:1
Cry aloud; do not hold back; lift up your voice like a trumpet; declare to my people their transgression, to the house of Jacob their sins.
Jeremiah 4:19
My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! Oh the walls of my heart! My heart is beating wildly; I cannot keep silent, for I hear the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
Ezekiel 33:3 - 6
And if he sees the sword coming upon the land and blows the trumpet and warns the people.
Joel 2:1
Blow a trumpet in Zion; sound an alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the Lord is coming; it is near.
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1 Corinthians 9:26
So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air.
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Acts 28:2
The native people showed us unusual kindness, for they kindled a fire and welcomed us all, because it had begun to rain and was cold.
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Ephesians 5:19
Addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart.
Colossians 3:16
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
James 5:13
Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise.
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Psalms 47:7
For God is the King of all the earth; sing praises with a psalm!
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1 Chronicles 16:36
Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, from ev...
Nehemiah 5:13
I also shook out the fold of my garment and sai...
Nehemiah 8:6
And Ezra blessed the Lord, the great God, and a...
Psalms 106:48
Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, from ev...
Jeremiah 11:5
That I may confirm the oath that I swore to you...
Jeremiah 28:6
And the prophet Jeremiah said, "Amen! May the L...
Revelation 5:14
And the four living creatures said, "Amen!" and...
Revelation 7:12
Saying, "Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom an...
Revelation 19:4
And the twenty-four elders and the four living ...
2 Corinthians 1:20
For all the promises of God find their Yes in h...
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1 Corinthians 11:24
And when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, "This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.
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Ephesians 4:14
So that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.
Hebrews 5:12 - 13
For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food.
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Psalms 131:2
But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child is my soul within me.
Isaiah 28:9
To whom will he teach knowledge, and to whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, those taken from the breast?
Romans 16:19
For your obedience is known to all, so that I rejoice over you, but I want you to be wise as to what is good and innocent as to what is evil.
Matthew 18:3
And said, "Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
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1 Corinthians 2:6
Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away.
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John 10:34
Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your Law, 'I said, you are gods'?
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Isaiah 28:11 - 12
For by people of strange lips and with a foreign tongue the Lord will speak to this people.
Deuteronomy 28:49
The Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, swooping down like the eagle, a nation whose language you do not understand.
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Isaiah 28:11 - 12
For by people of strange lips and with a foreign tongue the Lord will speak to this people.
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Acts 2:13
But others mocking said, "They are filled with new wine.
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Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
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Luke 17:16
And he fell on his face at Jesus' feet, giving him thanks. Now he was a Samaritan.
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Isaiah 45:14
Thus says the Lord : "The wealth of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush, and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over to you and be yours; they shall follow you; they shall come over in chains and bow down to you. They will plead with you, saying: 'Surely God is in you, and there is no other, no god besides him.'
Zechariah 8:23
Thus says the Lord of hosts: In those days ten men from the nations of every tongue shall take hold of the robe of a Jew, saying, 'Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.'
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Ephesians 5:19
Addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart.
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1 Corinthians 14:6
Now, brothers, if I come to you speaking in tongues, how will I benefit you unless I bring you some revelation or knowledge or prophecy or teaching?
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1 Corinthians 14:6
Now, brothers, if I come to you speaking in tongues, how will I benefit you unless I bring you some revelation or knowledge or prophecy or teaching?
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1 Corinthians 14:18
I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you.
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1 Corinthians 14:5
Now I want you all to speak in tongues, but even more to prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongues, unless someone interprets, so that the church may be built up.
1 Corinthians 14:13
Therefore, one who speaks in a tongue should pray for the power to interpret.
1 Corinthians 14:27 - 28
If any speak in a tongue, let there be only two or at most three, and each in turn, and let someone interpret.
1 Corinthians 12:10
To another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.
1 Corinthians 12:30
Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?
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2 Corinthians 12:19
Have you been thinking all along that we have been defending ourselves to you? It is in the sight of God that we have been speaking in Christ, and all for your upbuilding, beloved.
2 Corinthians 13:10
For this reason I write these things while I am away from you, that when I come I may not have to be severe in my use of the authority that the Lord has given me for building up and not for tearing down.
1 Corinthians 12:7
To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.
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1 Corinthians 14:26
What then, brothers? When you come together, each one has a hymn, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. Let all things be done for building up.
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1 Corinthians 12:10
To another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.
Job 12:11
Does not the ear test words as the palate tastes food?
1 John 4:1
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.
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1 Thessalonians 5:19 - 20
Do not quench the Spirit.
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1 Corinthians 14:40
But all things should be done decently and in order.
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1 Corinthians 7:17
Only let each person lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him, and to which God has called him. This is my rule in all the churches.
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1 Timothy 2:11 - 12
Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness.
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1 Peter 3:1
Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives.
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1 Corinthians 14:21
In the Law it is written, "By people of strange tongues and by the lips of foreigners will I speak to this people, and even then they will not listen to me, says the Lord.
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2 Corinthians 10:7
Look at what is before your eyes. If anyone is confident that he is Christ's, let him remind himself that just as he is Christ's, so also are we.
1 John 4:6
We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
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1 Corinthians 12:31
But earnestly desire the higher gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way.
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1 Corinthians 14:31
For you can all prophesy one by one, so that all may learn and all be encouraged.
1 Corinthians 14:33
For God is not a God of confusion but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints.
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Colossians 2:5
For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ.
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