e eye cannot say to the hand, "I have no need of you," nor can the
head say to the feet, "I have no need of you." On the contrary, even
those parts of the body which seem weaker are necessary. If one part
suffers, all parts suffer with it. If one part is honored, all the parts
share its honor.

Now you are one body--the body of Christ, and each of you are parts of
it. And God gave each his proper place in the church: apostles first,
prophets next, teachers third, then workers of miracles, healers,
helpers, and directors.

Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all able to
work miracles? Are all healers? Are all able to tell what their words
mean? But always seek to attain the highest gifts.

Yet I will show you a far better way. Though I speak with the tongues of
men and of angels but have not love, I am only sounding brass or a
clanging cymbal. Even though I have the gift of prophecy, and can
understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and have faith enough to
remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And if I give all I
have to feed the poor and my body to be burned, but have not love, I
gain nothing.

Love is patient and kind; love is not envious; love is not boastful, is
not conceited, does not act rudely, is not selfish, is never provoked,
does not resent wrong; rejoices not in evil, but rejoices in the truth.
Love forgives all things, believes all things, hopes for all things,
endures all things.

Love never fails. As for prophecies they shall come to an end. As for
tongues they shall cease. As for knowledge it also shall come to an end;
for we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is
perfect has come, that which is imperfect shall come to an end.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as
a child; but now that I am a man I have put away childish ways. For now
we see only the dim reflection in a mirror, but then face to face. Now I
know only in part, but then I shall know fully, even as also I am fully
known.

And now abide faith, hope, and love, these three; but the greatest of
these is love.

THE NEW LIFE AFTER DEATH

Now, brothers, remember the good news I preached to you, that Christ
died for our sins, and that he was buried and rose again the third day.

Now if we preach that Christ rose from the dead, why do some of you say
that there is no resurrection of the dead? If there is no such thing as
a resurrection of the