Study Desk

And what you sow is not the body which it will become, but you sow the bare seed, whether perhaps of wheat or of some of the rest.

But God gives to it a body just as he wishes, and to each one of the seeds its own body.

Not all flesh is the same, but there is one flesh of human beings, and another flesh of animals, and another flesh of birds, and another of fish,

and heavenly bodies and earthly bodies. But the glory of the heavenly bodies is of one kind, and the glory of the earthly bodies is of another kind.

But the spiritual is not first, but the natural; then the spiritual.

But I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood is not able to inherit the kingdom of God, nor can corruption inherit incorruptibility.

Behold, I tell you a mystery: we will not all fall asleep, but we will all be changed,

But whenever this perishable body puts on incorruptibility and this mortal body puts on immortality, then the saying that is written will take place: "Death is swallowed up in victory.

But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!

But I will come to you whenever I go through Macedonia (for I am going through Macedonia),

But I will remain in Ephesus until Pentecost,

But if Timothy comes, see that he is with you without cause to fear, for he is carrying out the Lord's work, as I also am.

Therefore do not let anyone disdain him, but send him on his way in peace in order that he may come to me, for I am expecting him with the brothers.

Now concerning Apollos our brother, I urged him many times that he should come to you with the brothers, and he was not at all willing that he should come now, but he will come whenever he has an opportunity.

But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort that is at work in the patient endurance of the same sufferings that we also suffer.

But we ourselves had the sentence of death in ourselves, so that we would not be putting confidence in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

For our reason for boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that we conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you, in holiness and purity of motive from God, not in merely human wisdom, but by the grace of God.

For we are not writing anything else to you except what you can read or also understand. But I hope that you will understand completely,

But God is faithful, so that our word to you is not "yes" and "no."

For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, the one who was proclaimed among you by us, by me and Silvanus and Timothy, did not become "yes" and "no," but has become "yes" in him.