Study Desk

On the first day of every week, each of you is to put something aside and store it up, as he may prosper, so that contributions need not be made when I come.

and perhaps I will stay with you or even spend the winter, so that you may speed me on my journey, wherever I go.

So let no one despise him. Speed him on his way in peace, that he may return to me; for I am expecting him with the brethren.

who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

For as we share abundantly in Christ's sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too.

For we do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, of the affliction we experienced in Asia; for we were so utterly, unbearably crushed that we despaired of life itself.

he delivered us from so deadly a peril, and he will deliver us; on him we have set our hope that he will deliver us again.

You also must help us by prayer, so that many will give thanks on our behalf for the blessing granted us in answer to many prayers.

Because I was sure of this, I wanted to come to you first, so that you might have a double pleasure;

And I wrote as I did, so that when I came I might not suffer pain from those who should have made me rejoice, for I felt sure of all of you, that my joy would be the joy of you all.

so you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.

So I beg you to reaffirm your love for him.

but my mind could not rest because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I took leave of them and went on to Macedo'nia.

For we are not, like so many, peddlers of God's word; but as men of sincerity, as commissioned by God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ.

not like Moses, who put a veil over his face so that the Israelites might not see the end of the fading splendor.

always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.

For while we live we are always being given up to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

So death is at work in us, but life in you.

Since we have the same spirit of faith as he had who wrote, "I believed, and so I spoke," we too believe, and so we speak,

For it is all for your sake, so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God.