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+<crossway-bible translation="English Standard Version" revision="2006-10-26" xmlns="http://www.crosswaybibles.org" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="schema/crossway.bibles.xsd"> 
+<book title="1 Corinthians" num="46">
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46001001"/>
+  <chapter num="1">
+    <heading>Greeting</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">Paul, <crossref let="a" cid="c46001001.1"/>called <crossref let="b" cid="c46001001.2"/>by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and our brother Sosthenes,</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46001002"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="2">To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those <crossref let="c" cid="c46001002.1"/>sanctified in Christ Jesus, <crossref let="d" cid="c46001002.2"/>called to be saints together with all those who in every place <crossref let="e" cid="c46001002.3"/>call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46001003"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="3"><crossref let="d" cid="c46001003.1"/>Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46001004"/>
+    <heading>Thanksgiving</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="4">I <crossref let="f" cid="c46001004.1"/>give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46001005"/>
+    <verse num="5">that in every way <crossref let="g" cid="c46001005.1"/>you were enriched in him in all <crossref let="h" cid="c46001005.2"/>speech and all knowledge&emdash;</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46001006"/>
+    <verse num="6">even as <crossref let="i" cid="c46001006.1"/>the testimony about Christ was confirmed among you&emdash;</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46001007"/>
+    <verse num="7">so that you are not lacking in any gift, as you <crossref let="j" cid="c46001007.1"/>wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46001008"/>
+    <verse num="8"><crossref let="k" cid="c46001008.1"/>who will sustain you to the end, <crossref let="l" cid="c46001008.2"/>guiltless <crossref let="m" cid="c46001008.3"/>in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46001009"/>
+    <verse num="9"><crossref let="n" cid="c46001009.1"/>God is faithful, by whom you were called into the <crossref let="o" cid="c46001009.2"/>fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46001010"/>
+    <heading>Divisions in the Church</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="10">I appeal to you, brothers,<note nid="n46001010.1"/> by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no <crossref let="p" cid="c46001010.1"/>divisions among you, but that you be united <crossref let="q" cid="c46001010.2"/>in the same mind and the same judgment.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46001011"/>
+    <verse num="11">For it has been reported to me by Chloe&apos;s people that there is <crossref let="r" cid="c46001011.1"/>quarreling among you, my brothers.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46001012"/>
+    <verse num="12">What I mean is that <crossref let="s" cid="c46001012.1"/>each one of you says, <q class="begin-double" qid="46001012.1" from="46001012.1" to="46001012.2"/>I follow Paul,<q class="end-double" qid="46001012.2" from="46001012.1" to="46001012.2"/> or <q class="begin-double" qid="46001012.3" from="46001012.3" to="46001012.4"/>I follow <crossref let="t" cid="c46001012.2"/>Apollos,<q class="end-double" qid="46001012.4" from="46001012.3" to="46001012.4"/> or <q class="begin-double" qid="46001012.5" from="46001012.5" to="46001012.6"/>I follow <crossref let="u" cid="c46001012.3"/>Cephas,<q class="end-double" qid="46001012.6" from="46001012.5" to="46001012.6"/> or <q class="begin-double" qid="46001012.7" from="46001012.7" to="46001012.8"/>I follow Christ.<q class="end-double" qid="46001012.8" from="46001012.7" to="46001012.8"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46001013"/>
+    <verse num="13"><crossref let="v" cid="c46001013.1"/>Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you <crossref let="w" cid="c46001013.2"/>baptized in the name of Paul?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46001014"/>
+    <verse num="14">I thank God that I baptized none of you except <crossref let="x" cid="c46001014.1"/>Crispus and <crossref let="y" cid="c46001014.2"/>Gaius,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46001015"/>
+    <verse num="15">so that no one may say that you were baptized in my name.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46001016"/>
+    <verse num="16">(I did baptize also <crossref let="z" cid="c46001016.1"/>the household of Stephanas. Beyond that, I do not know whether I baptized anyone else.)</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46001017"/>
+    <verse num="17">For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and <crossref let="a" cid="c46001017.1"/>not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46001018"/>
+    <heading>Christ the Wisdom and Power of God</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="18">For the word of the cross is <crossref let="b" cid="c46001018.1"/>folly to <crossref let="c" cid="c46001018.2"/>those who are perishing, but to us <crossref let="d" cid="c46001018.3"/>who are being saved it is <crossref let="e" cid="c46001018.4"/>the power of God.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46001019"/>
+    <verse num="19">For it is written,
+      <end-paragraph/>
+      <begin-block-indent/>
+      <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="f" cid="c46001019.1"/><crossref cid="t46001019.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="46001019.1" from="46001019.1" to="46001019.2"/>I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.<q class="end-double" qid="46001019.2" from="46001019.1" to="46001019.2"/><end-line/>
+    </verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <end-block-indent/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46001020"/>
+    <begin-paragraph class="same-paragraph"/>
+    <verse num="20"><crossref let="g" cid="c46001020.1"/>Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? <crossref let="h" cid="c46001020.2"/>Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46001021"/>
+    <verse num="21">For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach<note nid="n46001021.1"/> to save those who believe.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46001022"/>
+    <verse num="22">For <crossref let="i" cid="c46001022.1"/>Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46001023"/>
+    <verse num="23">but we preach Christ <crossref let="j" cid="c46001023.1"/>crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46001024"/>
+    <verse num="24">but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ <crossref let="k" cid="c46001024.1"/>the power of God and <crossref let="l" cid="c46001024.2"/>the wisdom of God.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46001025"/>
+    <verse num="25">For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46001026"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="26">For consider your calling, brothers: <crossref let="m" cid="c46001026.1"/>not many of you were wise according to worldly standards,<note nid="n46001026.1"/> not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46001027"/>
+    <verse num="27">But <crossref let="n" cid="c46001027.1"/>God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; <crossref let="o" cid="c46001027.2"/>God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong;</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46001028"/>
+    <verse num="28">God chose what is low and despised in the world, even <crossref let="p" cid="c46001028.1"/>things that are not, to <crossref let="q" cid="c46001028.2"/>bring to nothing things that are,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46001029"/>
+    <verse num="29">so <crossref let="r" cid="c46001029.1"/>that no human being<note nid="n46001029.1"/> might boast in the presence of God.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46001030"/>
+    <verse num="30">And because of him<note nid="n46001030.1"/> you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us <crossref let="s" cid="c46001030.1"/>wisdom from God, <crossref let="t" cid="c46001030.2"/>righteousness and <crossref let="u" cid="c46001030.3"/>sanctification and <crossref let="v" cid="c46001030.4"/>redemption,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46001031"/>
+    <verse num="31">so that, as it is written, <crossref let="w" cid="c46001031.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="46001031.1" from="46001031.1" to="46001031.2"/>Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.<q class="end-double" qid="46001031.2" from="46001031.1" to="46001031.2"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46002001"/>
+  <chapter num="2">
+    <heading>Proclaiming Christ Crucified</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">And I, when I came to you, brothers,<note nid="n46002001.1"/> <crossref let="x" cid="c46002001.1"/>did not come proclaiming to you <crossref let="y" cid="c46002001.2"/>the testimony<note nid="n46002001.2"/> of God with lofty speech or wisdom.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46002002"/>
+    <verse num="2">For I decided to know nothing among you except <crossref let="z" cid="c46002002.1"/>Jesus Christ and him crucified.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46002003"/>
+    <verse num="3">And <crossref let="a" cid="c46002003.1"/>I was with you <crossref let="b" cid="c46002003.2"/>in weakness and in fear and much trembling,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46002004"/>
+    <verse num="4">and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of <crossref let="c" cid="c46002004.1"/>the Spirit and of power,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46002005"/>
+    <verse num="5">so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men<note nid="n46002005.1"/> but <crossref let="d" cid="c46002005.1"/>in the power of God.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46002006"/>
+    <heading>Wisdom from the Spirit</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="6">Yet among <crossref let="e" cid="c46002006.1"/>the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not <crossref let="f" cid="c46002006.2"/>a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, <crossref let="g" cid="c46002006.3"/>who are doomed to pass away.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46002007"/>
+    <verse num="7">But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, <crossref let="h" cid="c46002007.1"/>which God decreed before the ages for our glory.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46002008"/>
+    <verse num="8">None of <crossref let="i" cid="c46002008.1"/>the rulers of this age understood this, for <crossref let="j" cid="c46002008.2"/>if they had, they would not have crucified <crossref let="k" cid="c46002008.3"/>the Lord of glory.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46002009"/>
+    <verse num="9">But, as it is written,
+      <end-paragraph/>
+      <begin-block-indent/>
+      <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="l" cid="c46002009.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="46002009.1" from="46002009.1" to="46002009.2"/>What no eye has seen, nor ear heard,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>nor the heart of man imagined,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line/>what God has <crossref let="m" cid="c46002009.2"/>prepared <crossref let="n" cid="c46002009.3"/>for those who love him<q class="end-double" qid="46002009.2" from="46002009.1" to="46002009.2"/>&emdash;<end-line/>
+    </verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <end-block-indent/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46002010"/>
+    <begin-paragraph class="same-paragraph"/>
+    <verse num="10">these things <crossref let="o" cid="c46002010.1"/>God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even <crossref let="p" cid="c46002010.2"/>the depths of God.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46002011"/>
+    <verse num="11">For who knows a person&apos;s thoughts <crossref let="q" cid="c46002011.1"/>except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46002012"/>
+    <verse num="12">Now <crossref let="r" cid="c46002012.1"/>we have received not <crossref let="s" cid="c46002012.2"/>the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46002013"/>
+    <verse num="13">And we impart this <crossref let="t" cid="c46002013.1"/>in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, <crossref let="u" cid="c46002013.2"/>interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.<note nid="n46002013.1"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46002014"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="14">The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are <crossref let="v" cid="c46002014.1"/>folly to him, and <crossref let="w" cid="c46002014.2"/>he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46002015"/>
+    <verse num="15">The <crossref let="x" cid="c46002015.1"/>spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46002016"/>
+    <verse num="16"><crossref let="y" cid="c46002016.1"/><crossref cid="t46002016.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="46002016.1" from="46002016.1" to="46002016.2"/>For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?<q class="end-double" qid="46002016.2" from="46002016.1" to="46002016.2"/> But <crossref let="z" cid="c46002016.2"/>we have the mind of Christ.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46003001"/>
+  <chapter num="3">
+    <heading>Divisions in the Church</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">But I, brothers,<note nid="n46003001.1"/> could not address you as <crossref let="a" cid="c46003001.1"/>spiritual people, but as <crossref let="b" cid="c46003001.2"/>people of the flesh, as <crossref let="c" cid="c46003001.3"/>infants in Christ.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46003002"/>
+    <verse num="2"><crossref let="d" cid="c46003002.1"/>I fed you with milk, not solid food, for <crossref let="e" cid="c46003002.2"/>you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46003003"/>
+    <verse num="3">for you are still of the flesh. For while there is <crossref let="f" cid="c46003003.1"/>jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46003004"/>
+    <verse num="4">For <crossref let="g" cid="c46003004.1"/>when one says, <q class="begin-double" qid="46003004.1" from="46003004.1" to="46003004.2"/>I follow Paul,<q class="end-double" qid="46003004.2" from="46003004.1" to="46003004.2"/> and another, <q class="begin-double" qid="46003004.3" from="46003004.3" to="46003004.4"/>I follow Apollos,<q class="end-double" qid="46003004.4" from="46003004.3" to="46003004.4"/> <crossref let="h" cid="c46003004.2"/>are you not being merely human?</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46003005"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="5">What then is Apollos? What is Paul? <crossref let="i" cid="c46003005.1"/>Servants through whom you believed, <crossref let="j" cid="c46003005.2"/>as the Lord assigned to each.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46003006"/>
+    <verse num="6"><crossref let="k" cid="c46003006.1"/>I planted, <crossref let="l" cid="c46003006.2"/>Apollos watered, <crossref let="m" cid="c46003006.3"/>but God gave the growth.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46003007"/>
+    <verse num="7">So <crossref let="n" cid="c46003007.1"/>neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46003008"/>
+    <verse num="8">He who plants and he who waters are one, and each <crossref let="o" cid="c46003008.1"/>will receive his wages according to his labor.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46003009"/>
+    <verse num="9">For we are <crossref let="p" cid="c46003009.1"/>God&apos;s fellow workers. You are God&apos;s field, <crossref let="q" cid="c46003009.2"/>God&apos;s building.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46003010"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="10"><crossref let="r" cid="c46003010.1"/>According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled<note nid="n46003010.1"/> master builder I laid a <crossref let="s" cid="c46003010.2"/>foundation, and <crossref let="t" cid="c46003010.3"/>someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46003011"/>
+    <verse num="11">For no one can lay a <crossref let="u" cid="c46003011.1"/>foundation other <crossref let="v" cid="c46003011.2"/>than that which is laid, <crossref let="w" cid="c46003011.3"/>which is Jesus Christ.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46003012"/>
+    <verse num="12">Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw&emdash;</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46003013"/>
+    <verse num="13"><crossref let="x" cid="c46003013.1"/>each one&apos;s work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed <crossref let="y" cid="c46003013.2"/>by fire, and <crossref let="z" cid="c46003013.3"/>the fire will test what sort of work each one has done.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46003014"/>
+    <verse num="14">If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, <crossref let="a" cid="c46003014.1"/>he will receive a reward.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46003015"/>
+    <verse num="15">If anyone&apos;s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, <crossref let="b" cid="c46003015.1"/>but only as through fire.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46003016"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="16"><crossref let="c" cid="c46003016.1"/>Do you not know that you<note nid="n46003016.1"/> are God&apos;s temple and that God&apos;s Spirit dwells in you?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46003017"/>
+    <verse num="17">If anyone destroys God&apos;s temple, God will destroy him. For <crossref let="d" cid="c46003017.1"/>God&apos;s temple is holy, and you are that temple.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46003018"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="18"><crossref let="e" cid="c46003018.1"/>Let no one deceive himself. <crossref let="f" cid="c46003018.2"/>If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46003019"/>
+    <verse num="19">For <crossref let="g" cid="c46003019.1"/>the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, <crossref let="h" cid="c46003019.2"/><crossref cid="t46003019.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="46003019.1" from="46003019.1" to="46003019.2"/>He catches the wise in their craftiness,<q class="end-double" qid="46003019.2" from="46003019.1" to="46003019.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46003020"/>
+    <verse num="20">and again, <crossref let="i" cid="c46003020.1"/><crossref cid="t46003020.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="46003020.1" from="46003020.1" to="46003020.2"/>The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile.<q class="end-double" qid="46003020.2" from="46003020.1" to="46003020.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46003021"/>
+    <verse num="21">So <crossref let="j" cid="c46003021.1"/>let no one boast in men. For <crossref let="k" cid="c46003021.2"/>all things are yours,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46003022"/>
+    <verse num="22">whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future&emdash;all are yours,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46003023"/>
+    <verse num="23">and <crossref let="l" cid="c46003023.1"/>you are Christ&apos;s, and <crossref let="m" cid="c46003023.2"/>Christ is God&apos;s.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46004001"/>
+  <chapter num="4">
+    <heading>The Ministry of Apostles</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and <crossref let="n" cid="c46004001.1"/>stewards of the mysteries of God.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46004002"/>
+    <verse num="2">Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46004003"/>
+    <verse num="3">But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46004004"/>
+    <verse num="4"><crossref let="o" cid="c46004004.1"/>For I am not aware of anything against myself, <crossref let="p" cid="c46004004.2"/>but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46004005"/>
+    <verse num="5">Therefore <crossref let="q" cid="c46004005.1"/>do not pronounce judgment before the time, <crossref let="r" cid="c46004005.2"/>before the Lord comes, <crossref let="s" cid="c46004005.3"/>who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. <crossref let="t" cid="c46004005.4"/>Then each one will receive his commendation from God.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46004006"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="6">I have applied all these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, brothers,<note nid="n46004006.1"/> that you may learn by us not to go beyond what is written, that none of you may <crossref let="u" cid="c46004006.1"/>be puffed up in favor of one against another.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46004007"/>
+    <verse num="7">For who sees anything different in you? <crossref let="v" cid="c46004007.1"/>What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46004008"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="8">Already you have all you want! Already you have become rich! Without us you have become kings! And would that you did reign, so that we might share the rule with you!</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46004009"/>
+    <verse num="9">For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, <crossref let="w" cid="c46004009.1"/>like men sentenced to death, because we <crossref let="x" cid="c46004009.2"/>have become a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46004010"/>
+    <verse num="10"><crossref let="y" cid="c46004010.1"/>We are fools for Christ&apos;s sake, but <crossref let="z" cid="c46004010.2"/>you are wise in Christ. <crossref let="a" cid="c46004010.3"/>We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46004011"/>
+    <verse num="11">To the present hour <crossref let="b" cid="c46004011.1"/>we hunger and thirst, we are poorly dressed and <crossref let="c" cid="c46004011.2"/>buffeted and <crossref let="d" cid="c46004011.3"/>homeless,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46004012"/>
+    <verse num="12">and we <crossref let="e" cid="c46004012.1"/>labor, working with our own hands. <crossref let="f" cid="c46004012.2"/>When reviled, we bless; <crossref let="g" cid="c46004012.3"/>when persecuted, we endure;</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46004013"/>
+    <verse num="13">when slandered, we entreat. <crossref let="h" cid="c46004013.1"/>We have become, and are still, like the scum of the world, <crossref let="i" cid="c46004013.2"/>the refuse of all things.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46004014"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="14">I do not write these things <crossref let="j" cid="c46004014.1"/>to make you ashamed, but to admonish you <crossref let="k" cid="c46004014.2"/>as my beloved children.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46004015"/>
+    <verse num="15">For <crossref let="l" cid="c46004015.1"/>though you have countless<note nid="n46004015.1"/> guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For <crossref let="m" cid="c46004015.2"/>I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46004016"/>
+    <verse num="16">I urge you, then, <crossref let="n" cid="c46004016.1"/>be imitators of me.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46004017"/>
+    <verse num="17">That is why <crossref let="o" cid="c46004017.1"/>I sent<note nid="n46004017.1"/> you Timothy, <crossref let="p" cid="c46004017.2"/>my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, to remind you of my ways in Christ,<note nid="n46004017.2"/> <crossref let="q" cid="c46004017.3"/>as I teach them everywhere in every church.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46004018"/>
+    <verse num="18">Some are <crossref let="r" cid="c46004018.1"/>arrogant, <crossref let="s" cid="c46004018.2"/>as though I were not coming to you.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46004019"/>
+    <verse num="19">But <crossref let="t" cid="c46004019.1"/>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.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46004020"/>
+    <verse num="20">For <crossref let="u" cid="c46004020.1"/>the kingdom of God does not consist in talk but in power.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46004021"/>
+    <verse num="21">What do you wish? <crossref let="v" cid="c46004021.1"/>Shall I come to you with a rod, or with love in a spirit of gentleness?</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46005001"/>
+  <chapter num="5">
+    <heading>Sexual Immorality Defiles the Church</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">It is actually reported that there is <crossref let="w" cid="c46005001.1"/>sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, <crossref let="x" cid="c46005001.2"/>for a man has his father&apos;s wife.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46005002"/>
+    <verse num="2">And <crossref let="y" cid="c46005002.1"/>you are arrogant! Ought you <crossref let="z" cid="c46005002.2"/>not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46005003"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="3">For though <crossref let="a" cid="c46005003.1"/>absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46005004"/>
+    <verse num="4">When you are assembled <crossref let="b" cid="c46005004.1"/>in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46005005"/>
+    <verse num="5">you are <crossref let="c" cid="c46005005.1"/>to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so <crossref let="d" cid="c46005005.2"/>that his spirit may be saved <crossref let="e" cid="c46005005.3"/>in the day of the Lord.<note nid="n46005005.1"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46005006"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="6"><crossref let="f" cid="c46005006.1"/>Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that <crossref let="g" cid="c46005006.2"/>a little leaven leavens the whole lump?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46005007"/>
+    <verse num="7">Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46005008"/>
+    <verse num="8">Let us therefore celebrate the festival, <crossref let="h" cid="c46005008.1"/>not with the old leaven, <crossref let="i" cid="c46005008.2"/>the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46005009"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="9">I wrote to you in my letter <crossref let="j" cid="c46005009.1"/>not to associate with sexually immoral people&emdash;</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46005010"/>
+    <verse num="10"><crossref let="k" cid="c46005010.1"/>not at all meaning <crossref let="l" cid="c46005010.2"/>the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, <crossref let="m" cid="c46005010.3"/>since then you would need to go out of the world.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46005011"/>
+    <verse num="11">But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone <crossref let="n" cid="c46005011.1"/>who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler&emdash;not even to eat with such a one.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46005012"/>
+    <verse num="12">For what have I to do with judging <crossref let="o" cid="c46005012.1"/>outsiders? <crossref let="p" cid="c46005012.2"/>Is it not those inside the church<note nid="n46005012.1"/> whom you are to judge?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46005013"/>
+    <verse num="13">God judges<note nid="n46005013.1"/> those outside. <crossref let="q" cid="c46005013.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="46005013.1" from="46005013.1" to="46005013.2"/>Purge the evil person from among you.<q class="end-double" qid="46005013.2" from="46005013.1" to="46005013.2"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46006001"/>
+  <chapter num="6">
+    <heading>Lawsuits Against Believers</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous <crossref let="r" cid="c46006001.1"/>instead of the saints?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46006002"/>
+    <verse num="2">Or do you not know that <crossref let="s" cid="c46006002.1"/>the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46006003"/>
+    <verse num="3">Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life!</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46006004"/>
+    <verse num="4">So if you have such cases, <crossref let="t" cid="c46006004.1"/>why do you lay them before those who have no standing in the church?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46006005"/>
+    <verse num="5"><crossref let="u" cid="c46006005.1"/>I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between the brothers,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46006006"/>
+    <verse num="6">but brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46006007"/>
+    <verse num="7">To have lawsuits at all with one another is already a defeat for you. <crossref let="v" cid="c46006007.1"/>Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46006008"/>
+    <verse num="8">But you yourselves wrong and defraud&emdash;even <crossref let="w" cid="c46006008.1"/>your own brothers!<note nid="n46006008.1"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46006009"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="9">Or do you not know that the unrighteous<note nid="n46006009.1"/> will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: <crossref let="x" cid="c46006009.1"/>neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,<note nid="n46006009.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46006010"/>
+    <verse num="10">nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46006011"/>
+    <verse num="11">And <crossref let="y" cid="c46006011.1"/>such were some of you. But <crossref let="z" cid="c46006011.2"/>you were washed, <crossref let="a" cid="c46006011.3"/>you were sanctified, <crossref let="b" cid="c46006011.4"/>you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46006012"/>
+    <heading>Flee Sexual Immorality</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="12"><crossref let="c" cid="c46006012.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="46006012.1" from="46006012.1" to="46006012.2"/>All things are lawful for me,<q class="end-double" qid="46006012.2" from="46006012.1" to="46006012.2"/> but not all things are helpful. <q class="begin-double" qid="46006012.3" from="46006012.3" to="46006012.4"/>All things are lawful for me,<q class="end-double" qid="46006012.4" from="46006012.3" to="46006012.4"/> but I will not be dominated by anything.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46006013"/>
+    <verse num="13"><crossref let="d" cid="c46006013.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="46006013.1" from="46006013.1" to="46006013.2"/>Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food<q class="end-double" qid="46006013.2" from="46006013.1" to="46006013.2"/>&emdash;and God will destroy both one <crossref let="e" cid="c46006013.2"/>and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but <crossref let="f" cid="c46006013.3"/>for the Lord, and <crossref let="g" cid="c46006013.4"/>the Lord for the body.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46006014"/>
+    <verse num="14">And <crossref let="h" cid="c46006014.1"/>God raised the Lord and <crossref let="i" cid="c46006014.2"/>will also raise us up <crossref let="j" cid="c46006014.3"/>by his power.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46006015"/>
+    <verse num="15">Do you not know that <crossref let="k" cid="c46006015.1"/>your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46006016"/>
+    <verse num="16">Or do you not know that he who is joined<note nid="n46006016.1"/> to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, <crossref let="l" cid="c46006016.1"/><crossref cid="t46006016.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="46006016.1" from="46006016.1" to="46006016.2"/>The two will become one flesh.<q class="end-double" qid="46006016.2" from="46006016.1" to="46006016.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46006017"/>
+    <verse num="17">But he who is joined to the Lord <crossref let="m" cid="c46006017.1"/>becomes one spirit with him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46006018"/>
+    <verse num="18"><crossref let="n" cid="c46006018.1"/>Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin<note nid="n46006018.1"/> a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person <crossref let="o" cid="c46006018.2"/>sins against his own body.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46006019"/>
+    <verse num="19">Or <crossref let="p" cid="c46006019.1"/>do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? <crossref let="q" cid="c46006019.2"/>You are not your own,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46006020"/>
+    <verse num="20"><crossref let="r" cid="c46006020.1"/>for you were bought with a price. <crossref let="s" cid="c46006020.2"/>So glorify God in your body.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46007001"/>
+  <chapter num="7">
+    <heading>Principles for Marriage</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: <crossref let="t" cid="c46007001.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="46007001.1" from="46007001.1" to="46007001.2"/>It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.<q class="end-double" qid="46007001.2" from="46007001.1" to="46007001.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46007002"/>
+    <verse num="2">But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46007003"/>
+    <verse num="3"><crossref let="u" cid="c46007003.1"/>The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46007004"/>
+    <verse num="4">For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46007005"/>
+    <verse num="5"><crossref let="v" cid="c46007005.1"/>Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, <crossref let="w" cid="c46007005.2"/>so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46007006"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="6">Now as a concession, <crossref let="x" cid="c46007006.1"/>not a command, I say this.<note nid="n46007006.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46007007"/>
+    <verse num="7"><crossref let="y" cid="c46007007.1"/>I wish that all were <crossref let="z" cid="c46007007.2"/>as I myself am. But <crossref let="a" cid="c46007007.3"/>each has his own gift from God, <crossref let="b" cid="c46007007.4"/>one of one kind and one of another.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46007008"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="8">To the unmarried and the widows I say that <crossref let="c" cid="c46007008.1"/>it is good for them to remain single, <crossref let="d" cid="c46007008.2"/>as I am.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46007009"/>
+    <verse num="9">But if they cannot exercise self-control, <crossref let="e" cid="c46007009.1"/>they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46007010"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="10">To the married <crossref let="f" cid="c46007010.1"/>I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): <crossref let="g" cid="c46007010.2"/>the wife should not separate from her husband</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46007011"/>
+    <verse num="11">(but if she does, <crossref let="h" cid="c46007011.1"/>she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and <crossref let="g" cid="c46007011.2"/>the husband should not divorce his wife.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46007012"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="12">To the rest I say (I, not the Lord) that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46007013"/>
+    <verse num="13">If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46007014"/>
+    <verse num="14">For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. <crossref let="i" cid="c46007014.1"/>Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46007015"/>
+    <verse num="15">But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you<note nid="n46007015.1"/> <crossref let="j" cid="c46007015.1"/>to peace.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46007016"/>
+    <verse num="16">For how do you know, wife, <crossref let="k" cid="c46007016.1"/>whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46007017"/>
+    <heading>Live as You Are Called</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="17">Only let each person lead the life<note nid="n46007017.1"/> <crossref let="l" cid="c46007017.1"/>that the Lord has assigned to him, and to which God has called him. <crossref let="m" cid="c46007017.2"/>This is my rule in <crossref let="n" cid="c46007017.3"/>all the churches.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46007018"/>
+    <verse num="18">Was anyone at the time of his call already circumcised? Let him not seek to remove the marks of circumcision. Was anyone at the time of his call uncircumcised? <crossref let="o" cid="c46007018.1"/>Let him not seek circumcision.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46007019"/>
+    <verse num="19"><crossref let="p" cid="c46007019.1"/>For neither circumcision counts for anything nor uncircumcision, but <crossref let="q" cid="c46007019.2"/>keeping the commandments of God.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46007020"/>
+    <verse num="20"><crossref let="r" cid="c46007020.1"/>Each one should remain in the condition in which he was called.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46007021"/>
+    <verse num="21">Were you a bondservant<note nid="n46007021.1"/> when called? Do not be concerned about it. (But if you can gain your freedom, avail yourself of the opportunity.)</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46007022"/>
+    <verse num="22">For he who was called in the Lord as a bondservant is <crossref let="s" cid="c46007022.1"/>a freedman of the Lord. Likewise he who was free when called is <crossref let="t" cid="c46007022.2"/>a bondservant of Christ.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46007023"/>
+    <verse num="23"><crossref let="u" cid="c46007023.1"/>You were bought with a price; <crossref let="v" cid="c46007023.2"/>do not become bondservants of men.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46007024"/>
+    <verse num="24">So, brothers,<note nid="n46007024.1"/> <crossref let="w" cid="c46007024.1"/>in whatever condition each was called, there let him remain with God.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46007025"/>
+    <heading>The Unmarried and the Widowed</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="25">Now concerning<note nid="n46007025.1"/> the betrothed,<note nid="n46007025.2"/> <crossref let="x" cid="c46007025.1"/>I have no command from the Lord, but I give my judgment as <crossref let="y" cid="c46007025.2"/>one who by the Lord&apos;s mercy is <crossref let="z" cid="c46007025.3"/>trustworthy.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46007026"/>
+    <verse num="26">I think that in view of the present<note nid="n46007026.1"/> distress <crossref let="a" cid="c46007026.1"/>it is good for a person to remain as he is.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46007027"/>
+    <verse num="27">Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be free. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek a wife.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46007028"/>
+    <verse num="28">But if you do marry, you have not sinned, and if a betrothed woman<note nid="n46007028.1"/> marries, she has not sinned. Yet those who marry will have worldly troubles, and I would spare you that.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46007029"/>
+    <verse num="29">This is what I mean, brothers: <crossref let="b" cid="c46007029.1"/>the appointed time has grown very short. From now on, let those who have wives live as though they had none,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46007030"/>
+    <verse num="30">and those who mourn as though they were not mourning, and those who rejoice as though they were not rejoicing, and those who buy <crossref let="c" cid="c46007030.1"/>as though they had no goods,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46007031"/>
+    <verse num="31">and those who deal with the world as though they had no dealings with it. For <crossref let="d" cid="c46007031.1"/>the present form of this world is passing away.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46007032"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="32">I want you to be <crossref let="e" cid="c46007032.1"/>free from anxieties. <crossref let="f" cid="c46007032.2"/>The unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46007033"/>
+    <verse num="33">But the married man is anxious about worldly things, how to please his wife,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46007034"/>
+    <verse num="34">and his interests are divided. And the unmarried or betrothed woman is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to be holy in body and spirit. But the married woman is anxious about worldly things, how to please her husband.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46007035"/>
+    <verse num="35">I say this for your own benefit, <crossref let="g" cid="c46007035.1"/>not to lay any restraint upon you, but to promote good order and to secure your undivided devotion to the Lord.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46007036"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="36">If anyone thinks that he is not behaving properly toward his betrothed,<note nid="n46007036.1"/> if his<note nid="n46007036.2"/> passions are strong, and it has to be, let him do as he wishes: let them marry&emdash;it is no sin.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46007037"/>
+    <verse num="37">But whoever is firmly established in his heart, being under no necessity but having his desire under control, and has determined this in his heart, to keep her as his betrothed, he will do well.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46007038"/>
+    <verse num="38">So then he who marries his betrothed <crossref let="h" cid="c46007038.1"/>does well, and he who refrains from marriage will do even better.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46007039"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="39"><crossref let="i" cid="c46007039.1"/>A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only <crossref let="j" cid="c46007039.2"/>in the Lord.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46007040"/>
+    <verse num="40">Yet <crossref let="k" cid="c46007040.1"/>in my judgment she is happier if she remains as she is. And I think <crossref let="l" cid="c46007040.2"/>that I too have the Spirit of God.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46008001"/>
+  <chapter num="8">
+    <heading>Food Offered to Idols</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">Now concerning<note nid="n46008001.1"/> <crossref let="m" cid="c46008001.1"/>food offered to idols: we know that <crossref let="n" cid="c46008001.2"/><q class="begin-double" qid="46008001.1" from="46008001.1" to="46008001.2"/>all of us possess knowledge.<q class="end-double" qid="46008001.2" from="46008001.1" to="46008001.2"/> This <q class="begin-double" qid="46008001.3" from="46008001.3" to="46008001.4"/>knowledge<q class="end-double" qid="46008001.4" from="46008001.3" to="46008001.4"/> <crossref let="o" cid="c46008001.3"/>puffs up, <crossref let="p" cid="c46008001.4"/>but love builds up.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46008002"/>
+    <verse num="2"><crossref let="q" cid="c46008002.1"/>If anyone imagines that he knows something, <crossref let="r" cid="c46008002.2"/>he does not yet know as he ought to know.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46008003"/>
+    <verse num="3">But if anyone loves God, <crossref let="s" cid="c46008003.1"/>he is known by God.<note nid="n46008003.1"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46008004"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="4">Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that <crossref let="t" cid="c46008004.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="46008004.1" from="46008004.1" to="46008004.2"/>an idol has no real existence,<q class="end-double" qid="46008004.2" from="46008004.1" to="46008004.2"/> and that <crossref let="u" cid="c46008004.2"/><q class="begin-double" qid="46008004.3" from="46008004.3" to="46008004.4"/>there is no God but one.<q class="end-double" qid="46008004.4" from="46008004.3" to="46008004.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46008005"/>
+    <verse num="5">For although there may be <crossref let="v" cid="c46008005.1"/>so-called gods in heaven or on earth&emdash;as indeed there are many <q class="begin-double" qid="46008005.1" from="46008005.1" to="46008005.2"/>gods<q class="end-double" qid="46008005.2" from="46008005.1" to="46008005.2"/> and many <q class="begin-double" qid="46008005.3" from="46008005.3" to="46008005.4"/>lords<q class="end-double" qid="46008005.4" from="46008005.3" to="46008005.4"/>&emdash;</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46008006"/>
+    <verse num="6">yet <crossref let="w" cid="c46008006.1"/>for us there is one God, the Father, <crossref let="x" cid="c46008006.2"/>from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and <crossref let="y" cid="c46008006.3"/>one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and <crossref let="z" cid="c46008006.4"/>through whom we exist.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46008007"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="7">However, not all possess this knowledge. But some, <crossref let="a" cid="c46008007.1"/>through former association with idols, eat food as really offered to an idol, and <crossref let="b" cid="c46008007.2"/>their conscience, being weak, is defiled.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46008008"/>
+    <verse num="8"><crossref let="c" cid="c46008008.1"/>Food will not commend us to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat, and no better off if we do.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46008009"/>
+    <verse num="9">But take care <crossref let="d" cid="c46008009.1"/>that this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block <crossref let="e" cid="c46008009.2"/>to the weak.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46008010"/>
+    <verse num="10">For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating<note nid="n46008010.1"/> in an idol&apos;s temple, will he not be encouraged,<note nid="n46008010.2"/> if his conscience is weak, to eat food offered to idols?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46008011"/>
+    <verse num="11">And so by your knowledge this weak person is <crossref let="f" cid="c46008011.1"/>destroyed, the brother for whom Christ died.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46008012"/>
+    <verse num="12">Thus, sinning against your brothers<note nid="n46008012.1"/> and <crossref let="g" cid="c46008012.1"/>wounding their conscience when it is weak, <crossref let="h" cid="c46008012.2"/>you sin against Christ.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46008013"/>
+    <verse num="13">Therefore, <crossref let="i" cid="c46008013.1"/>if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46009001"/>
+  <chapter num="9">
+    <heading>Paul Surrenders His Rights</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1"><crossref let="j" cid="c46009001.1"/>Am I not free? <crossref let="k" cid="c46009001.2"/>Am I not an apostle? <crossref let="l" cid="c46009001.3"/>Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? <crossref let="m" cid="c46009001.4"/>Are not you my workmanship in the Lord?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46009002"/>
+    <verse num="2">If to others I am not an apostle, at least I am to you, for you are <crossref let="n" cid="c46009002.1"/>the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46009003"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="3">This is my defense to those who would examine me.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46009004"/>
+    <verse num="4"><crossref let="o" cid="c46009004.1"/>Do we not have the right to eat and drink?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46009005"/>
+    <verse num="5"><crossref let="p" cid="c46009005.1"/>Do we not have the right to take along a believing wife,<note nid="n46009005.1"/> as do the other apostles and <crossref let="q" cid="c46009005.2"/>the brothers of the Lord and <crossref let="r" cid="c46009005.3"/>Cephas?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46009006"/>
+    <verse num="6">Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to refrain from working for a living?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46009007"/>
+    <verse num="7"><crossref let="s" cid="c46009007.1"/>Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? <crossref let="t" cid="c46009007.2"/>Who plants a vineyard without eating any of its fruit? Or who tends a flock without getting some of the milk?</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46009008"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="8">Do I say these things on human authority? Does not the Law say the same?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46009009"/>
+    <verse num="9">For it is written in the Law of Moses, <crossref let="u" cid="c46009009.1"/><crossref cid="t46009009.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="46009009.1" from="46009009.1" to="46009009.2"/>You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain.<q class="end-double" qid="46009009.2" from="46009009.1" to="46009009.2"/> Is it for oxen that God is concerned?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46009010"/>
+    <verse num="10">Does he not certainly speak for our sake? It was written <crossref let="v" cid="c46009010.1"/>for our sake, because <crossref let="w" cid="c46009010.2"/>the plowman should plow in hope and the thresher thresh in hope of sharing in the crop.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46009011"/>
+    <verse num="11"><crossref let="x" cid="c46009011.1"/>If we have sown spiritual things among you, is it too much if we reap material things from you?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46009012"/>
+    <verse num="12">If others share this rightful claim on you, do not we even more?
+      <end-paragraph/>
+      <begin-paragraph/>Nevertheless, <crossref let="y" cid="c46009012.1"/>we have not made use of this right, but we endure anything <crossref let="z" cid="c46009012.2"/>rather than put an obstacle in the way of the gospel of Christ.
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46009013"/>
+    <verse num="13">Do you not know that <crossref let="a" cid="c46009013.1"/>those who are employed in the temple service get their food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar share in the sacrificial offerings?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46009014"/>
+    <verse num="14">In the same way, the Lord commanded that <crossref let="b" cid="c46009014.1"/>those who proclaim the gospel should get their living by the gospel.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46009015"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="15">But <crossref let="c" cid="c46009015.1"/>I have made no use of any of these rights, nor am I writing these things to secure any such provision. For I would rather die than have anyone <crossref let="d" cid="c46009015.2"/>deprive me of my ground for boasting.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46009016"/>
+    <verse num="16">For if I preach the gospel, that gives me no ground for boasting. For <crossref let="e" cid="c46009016.1"/>necessity is laid upon me. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46009017"/>
+    <verse num="17">For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward, but if not of my own will, I am still entrusted with <crossref let="f" cid="c46009017.1"/>a stewardship.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46009018"/>
+    <verse num="18">What then is my reward? That in my preaching <crossref let="g" cid="c46009018.1"/>I may present the gospel free of charge, so as not to make full use of my right in the gospel.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46009019"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="19">For <crossref let="h" cid="c46009019.1"/>though I am free from all, <crossref let="i" cid="c46009019.2"/>I have made myself a servant to all, that I might <crossref let="j" cid="c46009019.3"/>win more of them.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46009020"/>
+    <verse num="20"><crossref let="k" cid="c46009020.1"/>To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46009021"/>
+    <verse num="21">To <crossref let="l" cid="c46009021.1"/>those outside the law I became <crossref let="m" cid="c46009021.2"/>as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but <crossref let="n" cid="c46009021.3"/>under the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46009022"/>
+    <verse num="22"><crossref let="o" cid="c46009022.1"/>To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. <crossref let="p" cid="c46009022.2"/>I have become all things to all people, that <crossref let="q" cid="c46009022.3"/>by all means I might save some.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46009023"/>
+    <verse num="23">I do it all for the sake of the gospel, <crossref let="r" cid="c46009023.1"/>that I may share with them in its blessings.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46009024"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="24">Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives <crossref let="s" cid="c46009024.1"/>the prize? So <crossref let="t" cid="c46009024.2"/>run that you may obtain it.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46009025"/>
+    <verse num="25">Every <crossref let="u" cid="c46009025.1"/>athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we <crossref let="v" cid="c46009025.2"/>an imperishable.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46009026"/>
+    <verse num="26">So I do not run aimlessly; I <crossref let="w" cid="c46009026.1"/>do not box as one <crossref let="x" cid="c46009026.2"/>beating the air.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46009027"/>
+    <verse num="27">But I discipline my body and <crossref let="y" cid="c46009027.1"/>keep it under control,<note nid="n46009027.1"/> lest after preaching to others <crossref let="z" cid="c46009027.2"/>I myself should be <crossref let="a" cid="c46009027.3"/>disqualified.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46010001"/>
+  <chapter num="10">
+    <heading>Warning Against Idolatry</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers,<note nid="n46010001.1"/> that our fathers were all under <crossref let="b" cid="c46010001.1"/>the cloud, and all <crossref let="c" cid="c46010001.2"/>passed through the sea,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46010002"/>
+    <verse num="2">and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46010003"/>
+    <verse num="3">and <crossref let="d" cid="c46010003.1"/>all ate the same <crossref let="e" cid="c46010003.2"/>spiritual food,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46010004"/>
+    <verse num="4">and <crossref let="f" cid="c46010004.1"/>all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46010005"/>
+    <verse num="5">Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased, for <crossref let="g" cid="c46010005.1"/>they were overthrown<note nid="n46010005.1"/> in the wilderness.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46010006"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="6">Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as <crossref let="h" cid="c46010006.1"/>they did.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46010007"/>
+    <verse num="7"><crossref let="i" cid="c46010007.1"/>Do not be idolaters <crossref let="j" cid="c46010007.2"/>as some of them were; as it is written, <crossref let="k" cid="c46010007.3"/><crossref cid="t46010007.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="46010007.1" from="46010007.1" to="46010007.2"/>The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.<q class="end-double" qid="46010007.2" from="46010007.1" to="46010007.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46010008"/>
+    <verse num="8"><crossref let="l" cid="c46010008.1"/>We must not indulge in sexual immorality <crossref let="m" cid="c46010008.2"/>as some of them did, and <crossref let="n" cid="c46010008.3"/>twenty-three thousand fell in a single day.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46010009"/>
+    <verse num="9">We must not put Christ<note nid="n46010009.1"/> to the test, <crossref let="o" cid="c46010009.1"/>as some of them did and <crossref let="p" cid="c46010009.2"/>were destroyed by serpents,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46010010"/>
+    <verse num="10">nor grumble, <crossref let="q" cid="c46010010.1"/>as some of them did and <crossref let="r" cid="c46010010.2"/>were destroyed by <crossref let="s" cid="c46010010.3"/>the Destroyer.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46010011"/>
+    <verse num="11">Now these things happened to them as an example, but <crossref let="t" cid="c46010011.1"/>they were written down for our instruction, <crossref let="u" cid="c46010011.2"/>on whom the end of the ages has come.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46010012"/>
+    <verse num="12">Therefore <crossref let="v" cid="c46010012.1"/>let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46010013"/>
+    <verse num="13">No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. <crossref let="w" cid="c46010013.1"/>God is faithful, and <crossref let="x" cid="c46010013.2"/>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.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46010014"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="14">Therefore, my beloved, <crossref let="y" cid="c46010014.1"/>flee from idolatry.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46010015"/>
+    <verse num="15">I speak <crossref let="z" cid="c46010015.1"/>as to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46010016"/>
+    <verse num="16"><crossref let="a" cid="c46010016.1"/>The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? <crossref let="b" cid="c46010016.2"/>The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46010017"/>
+    <verse num="17">Because there is one bread, we who are many are <crossref let="c" cid="c46010017.1"/>one body, for we all partake of the one bread.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46010018"/>
+    <verse num="18">Consider <crossref let="d" cid="c46010018.1"/>the people of Israel:<note nid="n46010018.1"/> <crossref let="e" cid="c46010018.2"/>are not those who eat the sacrifices participants in the altar?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46010019"/>
+    <verse num="19">What do I imply then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that <crossref let="f" cid="c46010019.1"/>an idol is anything?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46010020"/>
+    <verse num="20">No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice <crossref let="g" cid="c46010020.1"/>they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46010021"/>
+    <verse num="21"><crossref let="h" cid="c46010021.1"/>You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and <crossref let="i" cid="c46010021.2"/>the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and <crossref let="j" cid="c46010021.3"/>the table of demons.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46010022"/>
+    <verse num="22"><crossref let="k" cid="c46010022.1"/>Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy? <crossref let="l" cid="c46010022.2"/>Are we stronger than he?</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46010023"/>
+    <heading>Do All to the Glory of God</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="23"><crossref let="m" cid="c46010023.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="46010023.1" from="46010023.1" to="46010023.2"/>All things are lawful,<q class="end-double" qid="46010023.2" from="46010023.1" to="46010023.2"/> but not all things are helpful. <q class="begin-double" qid="46010023.3" from="46010023.3" to="46010023.4"/>All things are lawful,<q class="end-double" qid="46010023.4" from="46010023.3" to="46010023.4"/> but not all things build up.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46010024"/>
+    <verse num="24"><crossref let="n" cid="c46010024.1"/>Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46010025"/>
+    <verse num="25"><crossref let="o" cid="c46010025.1"/>Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without raising any question on the ground of conscience.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46010026"/>
+    <verse num="26">For <crossref let="p" cid="c46010026.1"/><crossref cid="t46010026.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="46010026.1" from="46010026.1" to="46010026.2"/>the earth is the Lord&apos;s, and the fullness thereof.<q class="end-double" qid="46010026.2" from="46010026.1" to="46010026.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46010027"/>
+    <verse num="27">If one of the unbelievers invites you to dinner and you are disposed to go, <crossref let="q" cid="c46010027.1"/>eat whatever is set before you without raising any question on the ground of conscience.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46010028"/>
+    <verse num="28">But if someone says to you, <q class="begin-double" qid="46010028.1" from="46010028.1" to="46010028.2"/>This has been offered in sacrifice,<q class="end-double" qid="46010028.2" from="46010028.1" to="46010028.2"/> then do not eat it, for the sake of the one who informed you, and for the sake of conscience&emdash;</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46010029"/>
+    <verse num="29">I do not mean <crossref let="r" cid="c46010029.1"/>your conscience, but his. For <crossref let="s" cid="c46010029.2"/>why should my liberty be determined by someone else&apos;s conscience?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46010030"/>
+    <verse num="30">If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of that <crossref let="t" cid="c46010030.1"/>for which I give thanks?</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46010031"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="31">So, whether you eat or drink, or <crossref let="u" cid="c46010031.1"/>whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46010032"/>
+    <verse num="32"><crossref let="v" cid="c46010032.1"/>Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to <crossref let="w" cid="c46010032.2"/>the church of God,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46010033"/>
+    <verse num="33">just as <crossref let="x" cid="c46010033.1"/>I try to please everyone in everything I do, <crossref let="y" cid="c46010033.2"/>not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46011001"/>
+  <chapter num="11">
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1"><crossref let="z" cid="c46011001.1"/>Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46011002"/>
+    <heading>Head Coverings</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="2">Now I commend you <crossref let="a" cid="c46011002.1"/>because you remember me in everything and <crossref let="b" cid="c46011002.2"/>maintain the traditions <crossref let="c" cid="c46011002.3"/>even as I delivered them to you.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46011003"/>
+    <verse num="3">But I want you to understand that <crossref let="d" cid="c46011003.1"/>the head of every man is Christ, <crossref let="e" cid="c46011003.2"/>the head of a wife<note nid="n46011003.1"/> is her husband,<note nid="n46011003.2"/> and <crossref let="f" cid="c46011003.3"/>the head of Christ is God.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46011004"/>
+    <verse num="4">Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46011005"/>
+    <verse num="5">but every wife<note nid="n46011005.1"/> who prays or <crossref let="g" cid="c46011005.1"/>prophesies <crossref let="h" cid="c46011005.2"/>with her head uncovered dishonors her head, since it is the same <crossref let="i" cid="c46011005.3"/>as if her head were shaven.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46011006"/>
+    <verse num="6">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.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46011007"/>
+    <verse num="7">For a man ought not to cover his head, since <crossref let="j" cid="c46011007.1"/>he is the image and glory of God, but <crossref let="k" cid="c46011007.2"/>woman is the glory of man.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46011008"/>
+    <verse num="8">For <crossref let="l" cid="c46011008.1"/>man was not made from woman, but woman from man.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46011009"/>
+    <verse num="9">Neither was man created for woman, but <crossref let="m" cid="c46011009.1"/>woman for man.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46011010"/>
+    <verse num="10">That is why a wife ought to have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels.<note nid="n46011010.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46011011"/>
+    <verse num="11">Nevertheless, <crossref let="n" cid="c46011011.1"/>in the Lord woman is not independent of man nor man of woman;</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46011012"/>
+    <verse num="12">for as woman was made from man, so man is now born of woman. And <crossref let="o" cid="c46011012.1"/>all things are from God.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46011013"/>
+    <verse num="13">Judge for yourselves: is it proper for a wife to pray to God with her head uncovered?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46011014"/>
+    <verse num="14">Does not nature itself teach you that if a man wears long hair it is a disgrace for him,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46011015"/>
+    <verse num="15">but if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For her hair is given to her for a covering.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46011016"/>
+    <verse num="16"><crossref let="p" cid="c46011016.1"/>If anyone is inclined to be contentious, we have no such practice, nor do <crossref let="q" cid="c46011016.2"/>the churches of God.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46011017"/>
+    <heading>The Lord&apos;s Supper</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="17">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.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46011018"/>
+    <verse num="18">For, in the first place, when you come together as a church, <crossref let="r" cid="c46011018.1"/>I hear that there are divisions among you. And I believe it in part,<note nid="n46011018.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46011019"/>
+    <verse num="19">for <crossref let="s" cid="c46011019.1"/>there must be factions among you in order <crossref let="t" cid="c46011019.2"/>that those who are genuine among you may be recognized.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46011020"/>
+    <verse num="20">When you come together, it is not the Lord&apos;s supper that you eat.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46011021"/>
+    <verse num="21">For in eating, each one goes ahead with his own meal. One goes hungry, <crossref let="u" cid="c46011021.1"/>another gets drunk.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46011022"/>
+    <verse num="22">What! Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise <crossref let="v" cid="c46011022.1"/>the church of God and <crossref let="w" cid="c46011022.2"/>humiliate those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I commend you in this? No, I will not.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46011023"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="23">For <crossref let="x" cid="c46011023.1"/>I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that <crossref let="y" cid="c46011023.2"/>the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46011024"/>
+    <verse num="24">and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, <woc><q class="begin-double" qid="46011024.1" from="46011024.1" to="46011024.2"/>This is my body, which is for<note nid="n46011024.1"/> you. Do this in remembrance of me.<q class="end-double" qid="46011024.2" from="46011024.1" to="46011024.2"/><note nid="n46011024.2"/></woc></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46011025"/>
+    <verse num="25">In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, <woc><q class="begin-double" qid="46011025.1" from="46011025.1" to="46011025.2"/>This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.<q class="end-double" qid="46011025.2" from="46011025.1" to="46011025.2"/></woc></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46011026"/>
+    <verse num="26">For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord&apos;s death <crossref let="z" cid="c46011026.1"/>until he comes.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46011027"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="27"><crossref let="a" cid="c46011027.1"/>Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord <crossref let="b" cid="c46011027.2"/>in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning <crossref let="c" cid="c46011027.3"/>the body and blood of the Lord.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46011028"/>
+    <verse num="28"><crossref let="d" cid="c46011028.1"/>Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46011029"/>
+    <verse num="29">For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46011030"/>
+    <verse num="30">That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some <crossref let="e" cid="c46011030.1"/>have died.<note nid="n46011030.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46011031"/>
+    <verse num="31"><crossref let="f" cid="c46011031.1"/>But if we judged<note nid="n46011031.1"/> ourselves truly, we would not be judged.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46011032"/>
+    <verse num="32">But when we are judged by the Lord, <crossref let="g" cid="c46011032.1"/>we are disciplined<note nid="n46011032.1"/> so that we may not be <crossref let="h" cid="c46011032.2"/>condemned along with the world.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46011033"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="33">So then, my brothers,<note nid="n46011033.1"/> when you come together to eat, wait for<note nid="n46011033.2"/> one another&emdash;</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46011034"/>
+    <verse num="34"><crossref let="i" cid="c46011034.1"/>if anyone is hungry, <crossref let="j" cid="c46011034.2"/>let him eat at home&emdash;so that when you come together it will not be for judgment. About the other things <crossref let="k" cid="c46011034.3"/>I will give directions <crossref let="l" cid="c46011034.4"/>when I come.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46012001"/>
+  <chapter num="12">
+    <heading>Spiritual Gifts</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">Now <crossref let="m" cid="c46012001.1"/>concerning<note nid="n46012001.1"/> spiritual gifts,<note nid="n46012001.2"/> brothers,<note nid="n46012001.3"/> I do not want you to be uninformed.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46012002"/>
+    <verse num="2">You know that <crossref let="n" cid="c46012002.1"/>when you were pagans <crossref let="o" cid="c46012002.2"/>you were led astray to <crossref let="p" cid="c46012002.3"/>mute idols, however you were led.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46012003"/>
+    <verse num="3">Therefore I want you to understand that <crossref let="q" cid="c46012003.1"/>no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says <q class="begin-double" qid="46012003.1" from="46012003.1" to="46012003.2"/>Jesus is <crossref let="r" cid="c46012003.2"/>accursed!<q class="end-double" qid="46012003.2" from="46012003.1" to="46012003.2"/> and <crossref let="s" cid="c46012003.3"/>no one can say <q class="begin-double" qid="46012003.3" from="46012003.3" to="46012003.4"/>Jesus is Lord<q class="end-double" qid="46012003.4" from="46012003.3" to="46012003.4"/> except in the Holy Spirit.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46012004"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="4">Now <crossref let="t" cid="c46012004.1"/>there are varieties of gifts, but <crossref let="u" cid="c46012004.2"/>the same Spirit;</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46012005"/>
+    <verse num="5">and <crossref let="v" cid="c46012005.1"/>there are varieties of service, but <crossref let="u" cid="c46012005.2"/>the same Lord;</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46012006"/>
+    <verse num="6">and there are varieties of activities, but it is <crossref let="u" cid="c46012006.1"/>the same God who empowers them all in everyone.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46012007"/>
+    <verse num="7"><crossref let="w" cid="c46012007.1"/>To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46012008"/>
+    <verse num="8">For to one is given through the Spirit the utterance of <crossref let="x" cid="c46012008.1"/>wisdom, and to another the utterance of <crossref let="y" cid="c46012008.2"/>knowledge according to the same Spirit,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46012009"/>
+    <verse num="9">to another <crossref let="z" cid="c46012009.1"/>faith by the same Spirit, to another <crossref let="a" cid="c46012009.2"/>gifts of healing by the one Spirit,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46012010"/>
+    <verse num="10">to another <crossref let="b" cid="c46012010.1"/>the working of miracles, to another <crossref let="c" cid="c46012010.2"/>prophecy, to another <crossref let="d" cid="c46012010.3"/>the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another <crossref let="e" cid="c46012010.4"/>various kinds of tongues, to another <crossref let="f" cid="c46012010.5"/>the interpretation of tongues.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46012011"/>
+    <verse num="11">All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit, <crossref let="g" cid="c46012011.1"/>who apportions to each one individually <crossref let="h" cid="c46012011.2"/>as he wills.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46012012"/>
+    <heading>One Body with Many Members</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="12">For just as <crossref let="i" cid="c46012012.1"/>the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, <crossref let="j" cid="c46012012.2"/>so it is with Christ.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46012013"/>
+    <verse num="13">For <crossref let="k" cid="c46012013.1"/>in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body&emdash;<crossref let="l" cid="c46012013.2"/>Jews or Greeks, slaves<note nid="n46012013.1"/> or free&emdash;and <crossref let="m" cid="c46012013.3"/>all were made to drink of one Spirit.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46012014"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="14">For the body does not consist of one member but of many.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46012015"/>
+    <verse num="15">If the foot should say, <q class="begin-double" qid="46012015.1" from="46012015.1" to="46012015.2"/>Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,<q class="end-double" qid="46012015.2" from="46012015.1" to="46012015.2"/> that would not make it any less a part of the body.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46012016"/>
+    <verse num="16">And if the ear should say, <q class="begin-double" qid="46012016.1" from="46012016.1" to="46012016.2"/>Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,<q class="end-double" qid="46012016.2" from="46012016.1" to="46012016.2"/> that would not make it any less a part of the body.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46012017"/>
+    <verse num="17">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?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46012018"/>
+    <verse num="18">But as it is, <crossref let="n" cid="c46012018.1"/>God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, <crossref let="o" cid="c46012018.2"/>as he chose.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46012019"/>
+    <verse num="19">If all were a single member, where would the body be?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46012020"/>
+    <verse num="20">As it is, there are many parts,<note nid="n46012020.1"/> yet one body.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46012021"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="21">The eye cannot say to the hand, <q class="begin-double" qid="46012021.1" from="46012021.1" to="46012021.2"/>I have no need of you,<q class="end-double" qid="46012021.2" from="46012021.1" to="46012021.2"/> nor again the head to the feet, <q class="begin-double" qid="46012021.3" from="46012021.3" to="46012021.4"/>I have no need of you.<q class="end-double" qid="46012021.4" from="46012021.3" to="46012021.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46012022"/>
+    <verse num="22">On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46012023"/>
+    <verse num="23">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,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46012024"/>
+    <verse num="24">which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46012025"/>
+    <verse num="25">that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46012026"/>
+    <verse num="26">If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, <crossref let="p" cid="c46012026.1"/>all rejoice together.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46012027"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="27">Now <crossref let="q" cid="c46012027.1"/>you are the body of Christ and individually <crossref let="r" cid="c46012027.2"/>members of it.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46012028"/>
+    <verse num="28">And <crossref let="s" cid="c46012028.1"/>God has appointed in the church first <crossref let="t" cid="c46012028.2"/>apostles, second <crossref let="u" cid="c46012028.3"/>prophets, third teachers, then <crossref let="v" cid="c46012028.4"/>miracles, then <crossref let="w" cid="c46012028.5"/>gifts of healing, <crossref let="x" cid="c46012028.6"/>helping, <crossref let="y" cid="c46012028.7"/>administrating, and <crossref let="v" cid="c46012028.8"/>various kinds of tongues.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46012029"/>
+    <verse num="29">Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46012030"/>
+    <verse num="30">Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46012031"/>
+    <verse num="31">But <crossref let="z" cid="c46012031.1"/>earnestly desire the higher gifts.
+      <end-paragraph/>
+      <begin-paragraph/>And I will show you a still more excellent way.
+    </verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46013001"/>
+  <chapter num="13">
+    <heading>The Way of Love</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46013002"/>
+    <verse num="2">And if I have <crossref let="a" cid="c46013002.1"/>prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, <crossref let="b" cid="c46013002.2"/>so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46013003"/>
+    <verse num="3"><crossref let="c" cid="c46013003.1"/>If I give away all I have, and <crossref let="d" cid="c46013003.2"/>if I deliver up my body to be burned,<note nid="n46013003.1"/> but have not love, I gain nothing.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46013004"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="4"><crossref let="e" cid="c46013004.1"/>Love is patient and <crossref let="f" cid="c46013004.2"/>kind; love <crossref let="g" cid="c46013004.3"/>does not envy or boast; it <crossref let="h" cid="c46013004.4"/>is not arrogant</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46013005"/>
+    <verse num="5">or rude. It <crossref let="i" cid="c46013005.1"/>does not insist on its own way; it <crossref let="j" cid="c46013005.2"/>is not irritable or resentful;<note nid="n46013005.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46013006"/>
+    <verse num="6">it <crossref let="k" cid="c46013006.1"/>does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but <crossref let="l" cid="c46013006.2"/>rejoices with the truth.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46013007"/>
+    <verse num="7"><crossref let="m" cid="c46013007.1"/>Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, <crossref let="e" cid="c46013007.2"/>endures all things.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46013008"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="8">Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46013009"/>
+    <verse num="9">For <crossref let="n" cid="c46013009.1"/>we know in part and we prophesy in part,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46013010"/>
+    <verse num="10">but <crossref let="o" cid="c46013010.1"/>when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46013011"/>
+    <verse num="11">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.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46013012"/>
+    <verse num="12">For <crossref let="p" cid="c46013012.1"/>now we see in a mirror dimly, but <crossref let="q" cid="c46013012.2"/>then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as <crossref let="r" cid="c46013012.3"/>I have been fully known.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46013013"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="13">So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46014001"/>
+  <chapter num="14">
+    <heading>Prophecy and Tongues</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1"><crossref let="s" cid="c46014001.1"/>Pursue love, and <crossref let="t" cid="c46014001.2"/>earnestly desire the <crossref let="u" cid="c46014001.3"/>spiritual gifts, especially that you may <crossref let="v" cid="c46014001.4"/>prophesy.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46014002"/>
+    <verse num="2">For <crossref let="w" cid="c46014002.1"/>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.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46014003"/>
+    <verse num="3">On the other hand, the one who prophesies speaks to people for their upbuilding and encouragement and consolation.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46014004"/>
+    <verse num="4">The one who speaks in a tongue builds up himself, but the one who prophesies builds up the church.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46014005"/>
+    <verse num="5">Now I want you all to speak in tongues, but <crossref let="x" cid="c46014005.1"/>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.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46014006"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="6">Now, brothers,<note nid="n46014006.1"/> if I come to you speaking in tongues, how will I benefit you unless I bring you some <crossref let="y" cid="c46014006.1"/>revelation or knowledge or prophecy or <crossref let="z" cid="c46014006.2"/>teaching?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46014007"/>
+    <verse num="7">If even lifeless instruments, such as the flute or the harp, do not give distinct notes, how will anyone know what is played?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46014008"/>
+    <verse num="8">And <crossref let="a" cid="c46014008.1"/>if the bugle gives an indistinct sound, who will get ready for battle?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46014009"/>
+    <verse num="9">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 <crossref let="b" cid="c46014009.1"/>speaking into the air.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46014010"/>
+    <verse num="10">There are doubtless many different languages in the world, and none is without meaning,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46014011"/>
+    <verse num="11">but if I do not know the meaning of the language, I will be <crossref let="c" cid="c46014011.1"/>a foreigner to the speaker and the speaker a foreigner to me.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46014012"/>
+    <verse num="12">So with yourselves, since you are eager for manifestations of the Spirit, strive to excel in building up the church.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46014013"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="13">Therefore, one who speaks in a tongue should pray that he may interpret.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46014014"/>
+    <verse num="14">For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays but my mind is unfruitful.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46014015"/>
+    <verse num="15">What am I to do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will pray with my mind also; <crossref let="d" cid="c46014015.1"/>I will sing praise with my spirit, but I will <crossref let="e" cid="c46014015.2"/>sing with my mind also.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46014016"/>
+    <verse num="16">Otherwise, if you give thanks with your spirit, how can anyone in the position of an outsider<note nid="n46014016.1"/> say <crossref let="f" cid="c46014016.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="46014016.1" from="46014016.1" to="46014016.2"/>Amen<q class="end-double" qid="46014016.2" from="46014016.1" to="46014016.2"/> to <crossref let="g" cid="c46014016.2"/>your thanksgiving when he does not know what you are saying?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46014017"/>
+    <verse num="17">For you may be giving thanks well enough, but the other person is not being built up.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46014018"/>
+    <verse num="18">I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46014019"/>
+    <verse num="19">Nevertheless, in church I would rather speak five words with my mind in order to instruct others, than ten thousand words in a tongue.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46014020"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="20">Brothers, <crossref let="h" cid="c46014020.1"/>do not be children in your thinking. <crossref let="i" cid="c46014020.2"/>Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be <crossref let="j" cid="c46014020.3"/>mature.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46014021"/>
+    <verse num="21"><crossref let="k" cid="c46014021.1"/>In the Law it is written, <crossref let="l" cid="c46014021.2"/><crossref cid="t46014021.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="46014021.1" from="46014021.1" to="46014021.2"/>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.<q class="end-double" qid="46014021.2" from="46014021.1" to="46014021.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46014022"/>
+    <verse num="22">Thus tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers, while prophecy is a sign<note nid="n46014022.1"/> not for unbelievers but for believers.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46014023"/>
+    <verse num="23">If, therefore, the whole church comes together and all speak in tongues, and outsiders or unbelievers enter, <crossref let="m" cid="c46014023.1"/>will they not say that you are out of your minds?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46014024"/>
+    <verse num="24">But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or outsider enters, he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46014025"/>
+    <verse num="25"><crossref let="n" cid="c46014025.1"/>the secrets of his heart are disclosed, and so, <crossref let="o" cid="c46014025.2"/>falling on his face, he will worship God and <crossref let="p" cid="c46014025.3"/>declare that God is really among you.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46014026"/>
+    <heading>Orderly Worship</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="26">What then, brothers? When you come together, each one has <crossref let="q" cid="c46014026.1"/>a hymn, <crossref let="r" cid="c46014026.2"/>a lesson, <crossref let="r" cid="c46014026.3"/>a revelation, <crossref let="s" cid="c46014026.4"/>a tongue, or <crossref let="t" cid="c46014026.5"/>an interpretation. <crossref let="u" cid="c46014026.6"/>Let all things be done for building up.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46014027"/>
+    <verse num="27">If any speak in <crossref let="s" cid="c46014027.1"/>a tongue, let there be only two or at most three, and each in turn, and let someone interpret.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46014028"/>
+    <verse num="28">But if there is no one to interpret, let each of them keep silent in church and speak to himself and to God.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46014029"/>
+    <verse num="29">Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others <crossref let="v" cid="c46014029.1"/>weigh what is said.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46014030"/>
+    <verse num="30">If a revelation is made to another sitting there, <crossref let="w" cid="c46014030.1"/>let the first be silent.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46014031"/>
+    <verse num="31">For you can all prophesy one by one, so that all may learn and all be encouraged,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46014032"/>
+    <verse num="32">and the spirits of prophets are subject to prophets.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46014033"/>
+    <verse num="33">For God is not a God of <crossref let="x" cid="c46014033.1"/>confusion but of peace.
+      <end-paragraph/>
+      <begin-paragraph/>As in <crossref let="y" cid="c46014033.2"/>all the churches of the saints,
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46014034"/>
+    <verse num="34"><crossref let="z" cid="c46014034.1"/>the women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but <crossref let="a" cid="c46014034.2"/>should be in submission, as <crossref let="b" cid="c46014034.3"/>the Law also says.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46014035"/>
+    <verse num="35">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.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46014036"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="36">Or was it from you that the word of God came? Or are you the only ones it has reached?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46014037"/>
+    <verse num="37"><crossref let="c" cid="c46014037.1"/>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.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46014038"/>
+    <verse num="38">If anyone does not recognize this, he is not recognized.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46014039"/>
+    <verse num="39">So, my brothers, <crossref let="d" cid="c46014039.1"/>earnestly desire to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46014040"/>
+    <verse num="40"><crossref let="e" cid="c46014040.1"/>But all things should be done decently and <crossref let="f" cid="c46014040.2"/>in order.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46015001"/>
+  <chapter num="15">
+    <heading>The Resurrection of Christ</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">Now I would remind you, brothers,<note nid="n46015001.1"/> of the gospel <crossref let="g" cid="c46015001.1"/>I preached to you, which you received, <crossref let="h" cid="c46015001.2"/>in which you stand,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46015002"/>
+    <verse num="2">and by which <crossref let="i" cid="c46015002.1"/>you are being saved, if you <crossref let="j" cid="c46015002.2"/>hold fast to the word I preached to you&emdash;<crossref let="k" cid="c46015002.3"/>unless you believed in vain.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46015003"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="3">For <crossref let="l" cid="c46015003.1"/>I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died <crossref let="m" cid="c46015003.2"/>for our sins <crossref let="n" cid="c46015003.3"/>in accordance with the Scriptures,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46015004"/>
+    <verse num="4">that he was buried, that he was raised <crossref let="o" cid="c46015004.1"/>on the third day <crossref let="p" cid="c46015004.2"/>in accordance with the Scriptures,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46015005"/>
+    <verse num="5">and that <crossref let="q" cid="c46015005.1"/>he appeared to Cephas, then <crossref let="r" cid="c46015005.2"/>to the twelve.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46015006"/>
+    <verse num="6">Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46015007"/>
+    <verse num="7">Then he appeared to <crossref let="s" cid="c46015007.1"/>James, then <crossref let="t" cid="c46015007.2"/>to all the apostles.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46015008"/>
+    <verse num="8">Last of all, as to one untimely born, <crossref let="u" cid="c46015008.1"/>he appeared also to me.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46015009"/>
+    <verse num="9">For <crossref let="v" cid="c46015009.1"/>I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because <crossref let="w" cid="c46015009.2"/>I persecuted the church of God.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46015010"/>
+    <verse num="10">But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, <crossref let="x" cid="c46015010.1"/>I worked harder than any of them, <crossref let="y" cid="c46015010.2"/>though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46015011"/>
+    <verse num="11">Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46015012"/>
+    <heading>The Resurrection of the Dead</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="12">Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, <crossref let="z" cid="c46015012.1"/>how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46015013"/>
+    <verse num="13">But if there is no resurrection of the dead, <crossref let="a" cid="c46015013.1"/>then not even Christ has been raised.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46015014"/>
+    <verse num="14">And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46015015"/>
+    <verse num="15">We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified about God that <crossref let="b" cid="c46015015.1"/>he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46015016"/>
+    <verse num="16">For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46015017"/>
+    <verse num="17">And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and <crossref let="c" cid="c46015017.1"/>you are still in your sins.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46015018"/>
+    <verse num="18">Then those also who <crossref let="d" cid="c46015018.1"/>have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46015019"/>
+    <verse num="19">If in Christ we have hope<note nid="n46015019.1"/> in this life only, <crossref let="e" cid="c46015019.1"/>we are of all people most to be pitied.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46015020"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="20">But in fact <crossref let="f" cid="c46015020.1"/>Christ has been raised from the dead, <crossref let="g" cid="c46015020.2"/>the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46015021"/>
+    <verse num="21">For as <crossref let="h" cid="c46015021.1"/>by a man came death, <crossref let="i" cid="c46015021.2"/>by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46015022"/>
+    <verse num="22">For <crossref let="j" cid="c46015022.1"/>as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46015023"/>
+    <verse num="23">But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then <crossref let="k" cid="c46015023.1"/>at his coming <crossref let="l" cid="c46015023.2"/>those who belong to Christ.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46015024"/>
+    <verse num="24">Then comes the end, when he delivers <crossref let="m" cid="c46015024.1"/>the kingdom to God the Father after destroying <crossref let="n" cid="c46015024.2"/>every rule and every authority and power.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46015025"/>
+    <verse num="25">For he must reign <crossref let="o" cid="c46015025.1"/>until he has put all his enemies under his feet.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46015026"/>
+    <verse num="26">The last enemy to be <crossref let="p" cid="c46015026.1"/>destroyed is death.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46015027"/>
+    <verse num="27">For <crossref let="q" cid="c46015027.1"/><crossref cid="t46015027.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="46015027.1" from="46015027.1" to="46015027.2"/>God<note nid="n46015027.1"/> has put all things in subjection under his feet.<q class="end-double" qid="46015027.2" from="46015027.1" to="46015027.2"/> But when it says, <q class="begin-double" qid="46015027.3" from="46015027.3" to="46015027.4"/>all things are put in subjection,<q class="end-double" qid="46015027.4" from="46015027.3" to="46015027.4"/> it is plain that he is excepted who put all things in subjection under him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46015028"/>
+    <verse num="28">When <crossref let="r" cid="c46015028.1"/>all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things in subjection under him, that <crossref let="s" cid="c46015028.2"/>God may be all in all.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46015029"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="29">Otherwise, what do people mean by being baptized on behalf of the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized on their behalf?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46015030"/>
+    <verse num="30">Why are we <crossref let="t" cid="c46015030.1"/>in danger every hour?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46015031"/>
+    <verse num="31">I protest, brothers, by <crossref let="u" cid="c46015031.1"/>my pride in you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, <crossref let="v" cid="c46015031.2"/>I die every day!</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46015032"/>
+    <verse num="32">What do I gain if, humanly speaking, <crossref let="w" cid="c46015032.1"/>I fought with beasts at Ephesus? If the dead are not raised, <crossref let="x" cid="c46015032.2"/><crossref cid="t46015032.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="46015032.1" from="46015032.1" to="46015032.2"/>Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.<q class="end-double" qid="46015032.2" from="46015032.1" to="46015032.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46015033"/>
+    <verse num="33"><crossref let="y" cid="c46015033.1"/>Do not be deceived: <crossref let="z" cid="c46015033.2"/><q class="begin-double" qid="46015033.1" from="46015033.1" to="46015033.2"/>Bad company ruins good morals.<q class="end-double" qid="46015033.2" from="46015033.1" to="46015033.2"/><note nid="n46015033.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46015034"/>
+    <verse num="34"><crossref let="a" cid="c46015034.1"/>Wake up from your drunken stupor, as is right, and do not go on sinning. For <crossref let="b" cid="c46015034.2"/>some have no knowledge of God. <crossref let="c" cid="c46015034.3"/>I say this to your shame.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46015035"/>
+    <heading>The Resurrection Body</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="35">But someone will ask, <crossref let="d" cid="c46015035.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="46015035.1" from="46015035.1" to="46015035.2"/>How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?<q class="end-double" qid="46015035.2" from="46015035.1" to="46015035.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46015036"/>
+    <verse num="36">You foolish person! <crossref let="e" cid="c46015036.1"/>What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46015037"/>
+    <verse num="37">And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46015038"/>
+    <verse num="38">But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46015039"/>
+    <verse num="39">For not all flesh is the same, but there is one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46015040"/>
+    <verse num="40">There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is of one kind, and the glory of the earthly is of another.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46015041"/>
+    <verse num="41">There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46015042"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="42"><crossref let="f" cid="c46015042.1"/>So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46015043"/>
+    <verse num="43">It is sown in dishonor; <crossref let="g" cid="c46015043.1"/>it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46015044"/>
+    <verse num="44">It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46015045"/>
+    <verse num="45">Thus it is written, <crossref let="h" cid="c46015045.1"/><crossref cid="t46015045.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="46015045.1" from="46015045.1" to="46015045.2"/>The first man Adam became a living being<q class="end-double" qid="46015045.2" from="46015045.1" to="46015045.2"/>;<note nid="n46015045.1"/> <crossref let="i" cid="c46015045.2"/>the last Adam became a <crossref let="j" cid="c46015045.3"/>life-giving spirit.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46015046"/>
+    <verse num="46">But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46015047"/>
+    <verse num="47"><crossref let="k" cid="c46015047.1"/>The first man was from the earth, <crossref let="l" cid="c46015047.2"/>a man of dust; <crossref let="m" cid="c46015047.3"/>the second man is from heaven.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46015048"/>
+    <verse num="48">As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, <crossref let="n" cid="c46015048.1"/>so also are those who are of heaven.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46015049"/>
+    <verse num="49">Just <crossref let="o" cid="c46015049.1"/>as we have borne the image of the man of dust, <crossref let="p" cid="c46015049.2"/>we shall<note nid="n46015049.1"/> also bear the image of the man of heaven.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46015050"/>
+    <heading>Mystery and Victory</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="50">I tell you this, brothers: <crossref let="q" cid="c46015050.1"/>flesh and blood <crossref let="r" cid="c46015050.2"/>cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46015051"/>
+    <verse num="51">Behold! I tell you a mystery. <crossref let="s" cid="c46015051.1"/>We shall not all sleep, <crossref let="t" cid="c46015051.2"/>but we shall all be changed,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46015052"/>
+    <verse num="52">in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For <crossref let="u" cid="c46015052.1"/>the trumpet will sound, and <crossref let="v" cid="c46015052.2"/>the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46015053"/>
+    <verse num="53">For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and <crossref let="w" cid="c46015053.1"/>this mortal body must put on immortality.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46015054"/>
+    <verse num="54">When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written:
+      <end-paragraph/>
+      <begin-block-indent/>
+      <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="x" cid="c46015054.1"/><crossref cid="t46015054.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="46015054.1" from="46015054.1" to="46015054.2"/>Death is swallowed up in victory.<q class="end-double" qid="46015054.2" from="46015054.1" to="46015054.2"/><end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46015055"/>
+    <verse num="55">
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="y" cid="c46015055.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="46015055.1" from="46015055.1" to="46015055.2"/>O death, where is your victory?<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>O death, where is your sting?<q class="end-double" qid="46015055.2" from="46015055.1" to="46015055.2"/><end-line/>
+    </verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <end-block-indent/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46015056"/>
+    <begin-paragraph class="same-paragraph"/>
+    <verse num="56">The sting of death is sin, and <crossref let="z" cid="c46015056.1"/>the power of sin is the law.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46015057"/>
+    <verse num="57">But thanks be to God, <crossref let="a" cid="c46015057.1"/>who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46015058"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="58"><crossref let="b" cid="c46015058.1"/>Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in <crossref let="c" cid="c46015058.2"/>the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord <crossref let="d" cid="c46015058.3"/>your labor is not in vain.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46016001"/>
+  <chapter num="16">
+    <heading>The Collection for the Saints</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">Now concerning<note nid="n46016001.1"/> <crossref let="e" cid="c46016001.1"/>the collection for the saints: as I directed the churches of Galatia, so you also are to do.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46016002"/>
+    <verse num="2">On <crossref let="f" cid="c46016002.1"/>the first day of every week, each of you is to put something aside and store it up, <crossref let="g" cid="c46016002.2"/>as he may prosper, <crossref let="h" cid="c46016002.3"/>so that there will be no collecting when I come.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46016003"/>
+    <verse num="3">And when I arrive, I will send <crossref let="i" cid="c46016003.1"/>those whom you accredit by letter to carry your gift to Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46016004"/>
+    <verse num="4">If it seems advisable that I should go also, they will accompany me.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46016005"/>
+    <heading>Plans for Travel</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="5"><crossref let="j" cid="c46016005.1"/>I will visit you after passing through <crossref let="k" cid="c46016005.2"/>Macedonia, for <crossref let="l" cid="c46016005.3"/>I intend to pass through Macedonia,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46016006"/>
+    <verse num="6">and perhaps I will stay with you or even spend the winter, so that you may <crossref let="m" cid="c46016006.1"/>help me on my journey, wherever I go.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46016007"/>
+    <verse num="7">For I do not want to see you now <crossref let="n" cid="c46016007.1"/>just in passing. I hope to spend some time with you, <crossref let="o" cid="c46016007.2"/>if the Lord permits.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46016008"/>
+    <verse num="8">But I will stay in Ephesus until <crossref let="p" cid="c46016008.1"/>Pentecost,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46016009"/>
+    <verse num="9">for <crossref let="q" cid="c46016009.1"/>a wide door for effective work has opened to me, and <crossref let="r" cid="c46016009.2"/>there are many adversaries.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46016010"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="10"><crossref let="s" cid="c46016010.1"/>When Timothy comes, see that you put him at ease among you, for <crossref let="t" cid="c46016010.2"/>he is doing <crossref let="u" cid="c46016010.3"/>the work of the Lord, as I am.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46016011"/>
+    <verse num="11">So <crossref let="v" cid="c46016011.1"/>let no one despise him. <crossref let="w" cid="c46016011.2"/>Help him on his way <crossref let="x" cid="c46016011.3"/>in peace, that he may return to me, for I am expecting him with the brothers.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46016012"/>
+    <heading>Final Instructions</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="12">Now concerning <crossref let="y" cid="c46016012.1"/>our brother Apollos, I strongly urged him to visit you with the other brothers, but it was not at all his will<note nid="n46016012.1"/> to come now. He will come when he has opportunity.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46016013"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="13"><crossref let="z" cid="c46016013.1"/>Be watchful, <crossref let="a" cid="c46016013.2"/>stand firm in the faith, <crossref let="b" cid="c46016013.3"/>act like men, <crossref let="c" cid="c46016013.4"/>be strong.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46016014"/>
+    <verse num="14"><crossref let="d" cid="c46016014.1"/>Let all that you do be done in love.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46016015"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="15">Now I urge you, brothers<note nid="n46016015.1"/>&emdash;you know that <crossref let="e" cid="c46016015.1"/>the household<note nid="n46016015.2"/> of Stephanas were <crossref let="f" cid="c46016015.2"/>the first converts in Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves <crossref let="g" cid="c46016015.3"/>to the service of the saints&emdash;</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46016016"/>
+    <verse num="16"><crossref let="h" cid="c46016016.1"/>be subject to such as these, and to every fellow worker and laborer.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46016017"/>
+    <verse num="17">I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus, because they have made up for <crossref let="i" cid="c46016017.1"/>your absence,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46016018"/>
+    <verse num="18">for they <crossref let="j" cid="c46016018.1"/>refreshed my spirit as well as yours. <crossref let="k" cid="c46016018.2"/>Give recognition to such people.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46016019"/>
+    <heading>Greetings</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="19">The churches of Asia send you greetings. <crossref let="l" cid="c46016019.1"/>Aquila and Prisca, together with <crossref let="m" cid="c46016019.2"/>the church in their house, send you hearty greetings in the Lord.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46016020"/>
+    <verse num="20">All the brothers send you greetings. <crossref let="n" cid="c46016020.1"/>Greet one another with a holy kiss.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46016021"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="21">I, Paul, write <crossref let="o" cid="c46016021.1"/>this greeting with my own hand.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46016022"/>
+    <verse num="22">If anyone has no love for the Lord, let him be <crossref let="p" cid="c46016022.1"/>accursed. Our Lord, come!<note nid="n46016022.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46016023"/>
+    <verse num="23"><crossref let="q" cid="c46016023.1"/>The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v46016024"/>
+    <verse num="24">My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+</book>
+</crossway-bible>