Study Desk

I gave you milk, not solid food, because you were not yet ready for it. But you aren't ready for it now either!

But each one's work will be shown for what it is; the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire — the fire will test the quality of each one's work.

Get rid of the old hametz, so that you can be a new batch of dough, because in reality you are unleavened. For our Pesach lamb, the Messiah, has been sacrificed.

Well, because of the danger of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

Do not deprive each other, except for a limited time, by mutual agreement, and then only so as to have extra time for prayer; but afterwards, come together again. Otherwise, because of your lack of self-control, you may succumb to the Adversary's temptation.

but if they can't exercise self-control, they should get married; because it is better to get married than to keep burning with sexual desire.

and those who deal in worldly affairs as if not engrossed in them — because the present scheme of things in this world won't last much longer.

What I am saying is not based merely on human authority, because the Torah says the same thing —

For I can't boast merely because I proclaim the Good News — this I do from inner compulsion: woe is me if I don't proclaim the Good News!

For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if I do it unwillingly, I still do it, simply because I've been entrusted with a job.

But I do it all because of the rewards promised by the Good News, so that I may share in them along with the others who come to trust.

Because there is one loaf of bread, we who are many constitute one body, since we all partake of the one loaf of bread.

Now I praise you because you have remembered everything I told you and observe the traditions just the way I passed them on to you.

For a man indeed should not have his head veiled, because he is the image and glory of God, and the woman is the glory of man.

But a woman who wears her hair long enhances her appearance, because her hair has been given to her as a covering.

But in giving you this next instruction I do not praise you, because when you meet together it does more harm than good!

because as you eat your meal, each one goes ahead on his own; so that one stays hungry while another is already drunk!

For someone speaking in a tongue is not speaking to people but to God, because no one can understand, since he is uttering mysteries in the power of the Spirit.

For I am the least of all the emissaries, unfit to be called an emissary, because I persecuted the Messianic Community of God.

For I don't want to see you now, when I am only passing through; because I am hoping to spend some time with you, if the Lord allows it.