reasoned like a child: when I became a man, I put from
me childish ways.
013:012 For the present we see things as if in a mirror, and are puzzled;
but then we shall see them face to face. For the present
the knowledge I gain is imperfect; but then I shall know fully,
even as I am fully known.
013:013 And so there remain Faith, Hope, Love--these three;
and of these the greatest is Love.
014:001 Be eager in your pursuit of this Love, and be earnestly ambitious
for spiritual gifts, but let it be chiefly so in order
that you may prophesy.
014:002 For he who speaks in an unknown tongue is not speaking to men,
but to God; for no one understands him. Yet in the Spirit
he is speaking secret truths.
014:003 But he who prophesies speaks to men words of edification,
encouragement and comfort.
014:004 He who speaks in an unknown tongue does good to himself,
but he who prophesies does good to the Church.
014:005 I should be right glad were you all to speak in `tongues,'
but yet more glad were you all to prophesy. And, in fact,
the man who prophesies is superior to him who speaks in `tongues,'
except when the latter can interpret in order that the Church
may get a blessing.
014:006 But, brethren, as things are, if I come to you speaking in `tongues,'
what benefit shall I confer on you, if the utterance is neither
in the form of a revelation nor of additional knowledge nor
of prophecy nor of teaching?
014:007 Even inanimate things--flutes or harps, for instance--
when yielding a sound, if they make no distinction in the notes,
how shall the tune which is played on the flute or the