Letters to the Churches

and if there may be no interpreter, let him be silent in an assembly, and to himself let him speak, and to God.

And prophets--let two or three speak, and let the others discern,

and if to another sitting anything may be revealed, let the first be silent;

for ye are able, one by one, all to prophesy, that all may learn, and all may be exhorted,

and the spiritual gift of prophets to prophets are subject,

for God is not a God of tumult, but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints.

Your women in the assemblies let them be silent, for it hath not been permitted to them to speak, but to be subject, as also the law saith;

and if they wish to learn anything, at home their own husbands let them question, for it is a shame to women to speak in an assembly.

From you did the word of God come forth? or to you alone did it come?

if any one doth think to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge the things that I write to you--that of the Lord they are commands;

and if any one is ignorant--let him be ignorant;

so that, brethren, earnestly desire to prophesy, and to speak with tongues do not forbid;

let all things be done decently and in order.

And I make known to you, brethren, the good news that I proclaimed to you, which also ye did receive, in which also ye have stood,

through which also ye are being saved, in what words I proclaimed good news to you, if ye hold fast, except ye did believe in vain,

for I delivered to you first, what also I did receive, that Christ died for our sins, according to the Writings,

and that he was buried, and that he hath risen on the third day, according to the Writings,

and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve,

afterwards he appeared to above five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain till now, and certain also did fall asleep;

afterwards he appeared to James, then to all the apostles.

And last of all--as to the untimely birth--he appeared also to me,

for I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I did persecute the assembly of God,

and by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace that is towards me came not in vain, but more abundantly than they all did I labour, yet not I, but the grace of God that is with me;

whether, then, I or they, so we preach, and so ye did believe.

And if Christ is preached, that out of the dead he hath risen, how say certain among you, that there is no rising again of dead persons?