Study Desk

Because it is said in the holy Writings, Whoever has faith in him will not be shamed.

Because, Whoever will give worship to the name of the Lord will get salvation.

Do not be uplifted in pride over the branches: because it is not you who are the support of the root, but it is by the root that you are supported.

Truly, because they had no faith they were broken off, and you have your place by reason of your faith. Do not be lifted up in pride, but have fear;

And they, if they do not go on without faith, will be united to the tree again, because God is able to put them in again.

Because God's selection and his mercies may not be changed.

Let everyone put himself under the authority of the higher powers, because there is no power which is not of God, and all powers are ordered by God.

So put yourselves under the authority, not for fear of wrath, but because you have the knowledge of what is right.

For the same reason, make payment of taxes; because the authority is God's servant, to take care of such things at all times.

Who are you to make yourself a judge of another man's servant? it is to his master that he is responsible for good or bad. Yes, his place will be safe, because the Lord is able to keep him from falling.

But you, why do you make yourself your brother's judge? or again, why have you no respect for your brother? because we will all have to take our place before God as our judge.

And if because of food your brother is troubled, then you are no longer going on in the way of love. Do not let your food be destruction to him for whom Christ went into death.

But he who is in doubt is judged if he takes food, because he does it not in faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.

But I have, in some measure, less fear in writing to you to put these things before you again, because of the grace which was given to me by God,

That you will take her in kindly, after the way of the saints, as one who is the Lord's, and give her help in anything in which she may have need of you: because she has been a help to a great number and to myself.

I give praise to my God for you at all times, because of the grace of God which has been given to you in Christ Jesus;

Because it has come to my knowledge, through those of the house of Chloe, that there are divisions among you, my brothers.

For because, by the purpose of God, the world, with all its wisdom, had not the knowledge of God, it was God's pleasure, by so foolish a thing as preaching, to give salvation to those who had faith in him.

Because what seems foolish in God is wiser than men; and what seems feeble in God is stronger than men.

For the natural man is not able to take in the things of the Spirit of God: for they seem foolish to him, and he is not able to have knowledge of them, because such knowledge comes only through the Spirit.