Study Desk

if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home—so that when you come together it will not be for judgment. About the other things I will give directions when I come.

For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.

which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it,

And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Now I want you all to speak in tongues, but even more to prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongues, unless someone interprets, so that the church may be built up.

So with yourselves, if with your tongue you utter speech that is not intelligible, how will anyone know what is said? For you will be speaking into the air.

So with yourselves, since you are eager for manifestations of the Spirit, strive to excel in building up the church.

the secrets of his heart are disclosed, and so, falling on his face, he will worship God and declare that God is really among you.

For you can all prophesy one by one, so that all may learn and all be encouraged,

So, my brothers, earnestly desire to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues.

Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.

For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.

So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable.

As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, so also are those who are of heaven.

Now concerning the collection for the saints: as I directed the churches of Galatia, so you also are to do.

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 there will be no collecting when I come.

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

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

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.