46:012:020 But now are they many members, yet but one body.
46:012:021 And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I
have no need of thee:
nor
again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
46:012:022 Nay, much more those members of the body,
which seem to be
more
feeble, are necessary:
46:012:023 And those members of the body, which we
think to be less
honourable,
upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our
uncomely
parts have more abundant comeliness.
46:012:024 For our comely parts have no need:
but God hath tempered the
body
together, having given more abundant honour to that
part
which
lacked.
46:012:025 That there should be no schism in the body;
but that the
members
should have the same care one for another.
46:012:026 And whether one member suffer, all the
members suffer with it;
or
one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with
it.
46:012:027 Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
46:012:028 And God hath set some in the church, first
apostles,
secondarily
prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles,
then
gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities
of
tongues.
46:012:029 Are all apostles? are all prophets? are
all teachers? are all
workers
of miracles?
46:012:030 Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak
with tongues? do
all
interpret?
46:012:031 But covet earnestly the best gifts:
and yet shew I unto you a
more
excellent way.
46:013:001 Though I speak with the tongues of men
and of angels, and have
not
charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling
cymbal.
46:013:002 And though I have the gift of prophecy,
and understand all
mysteries,
and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so
that
I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am
nothing.
46:013:003 And though I bestow all my goods to feed
the poor, and though
I
give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it
profiteth
me nothing.
46:013:004 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity
envieth not;
charity
vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
46:013:005 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh
not her own, is not
easily
provoked, thinketh no evil;
46:013:006 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
46:013:007 Beareth all things, believeth all things,
hopeth all things,
endureth
all things.
46:013:008 Charity never faileth: but whether
there be prophecies, they
shall
fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease;
whether
there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.


