Study Desk

The Law came, so that the full power of sin could be seen. Yet where sin was powerful, God's kindness was even more powerful.

Yet God raised Jesus to life! God's Spirit now lives in you, and he will raise you to life by his Spirit.

However, we hope for something we have not yet seen, and we patiently wait for it.

Yet not everyone has believed the message. For example, the prophet Isaiah asked, "Lord, has anyone believed what we said?"

because you are not yet spiritual. You are jealous and argue with each other. This proves that you are not spiritual and that you are acting like the people of this world.

But if it is destroyed by the fire, we will lose everything. Yet we ourselves will be saved, like someone escaping from flames.

It is true that the first woman came from a man, but all other men have been given birth by women. Yet God is the one who created everything.

and we can each do different things. Yet the same God works in all of us and helps us in everything we do.

We are unknown to others, but well known to you. We seem to be dying, and yet we are still alive. We have been punished, but never killed,

Maybe I brag a little too much about the authority that the Lord gave me to help you and not to hurt you. Yet I am not embarrassed to brag.

Yet if others want to brag about what they have done, so will I.

Yet even if I did brag, I would not be foolish. I would simply be speaking the truth. But I will try not to say too much. That way, none of you will think more highly of me than you should because of what you have seen me do and say.

I have not yet reached my goal, and I am not perfect. But Christ has taken hold of me. So I keep on running and struggling to take hold of the prize.

It doesn't matter if you are a Greek or a Jew, or if you are circumcised or not. You may even be a barbarian or a Scythian, and you may be a slave or a free person. Yet Christ is all that matters, and he lives in all of us.

I used to say terrible and insulting things about him, and I was cruel. But he had mercy on me because I didn't know what I was doing, and I had not yet put my faith in him.

trouble and suffering in the cities of Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. Yet the Lord rescued me from all those terrible troubles.

You made us lower than the angels for a while. Yet you have crowned us with glory and honor.

But God has promised us a Sabbath when we will rest, even though it has not yet come.

According to the Law of Moses, those people who become unclean are not fit to worship God. Yet they will be considered clean, if they are sprinkled with the blood of goats and bulls and with the ashes of a sacrificed calf.

Because Noah had faith, he was warned about something that had not yet happened. He obeyed and built a boat that saved him and his family. In this way the people of the world were judged, and Noah was given the blessings that come to everyone who pleases God.