Study Desk

For our present troubles are small and won't last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever!

Our hearts ache, but we always have joy. We are poor, but we give spiritual riches to others. We own nothing, and yet we have everything.

You know the generous grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. Though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that by his poverty he could make you rich.

Yet we know that a person is made right with God by faith in Jesus Christ, not by obeying the law. And we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we might be made right with God because of our faith in Christ, not because we have obeyed the law. For no one will ever be made right with God by obeying the law."

Yet now he has reconciled you to himself through the death of Christ in his physical body. As a result, he has brought you into his own presence, and you are holy and blameless as you stand before him without a single fault.

You were dead because of your sins and because your sinful nature was not yet cut away. Then God made you alive with Christ, for he forgave all our sins.

For these rules are only shadows of the reality yet to come. And Christ himself is that reality.

You know how badly we had been treated at Philippi just before we came to you and how much we suffered there. Yet our God gave us the courage to declare his Good News to you boldly, in spite of great opposition.

Yet we hear that some of you are living idle lives, refusing to work and meddling in other people's business.

Yet true godliness with contentment is itself great wealth.

Yet for a little while you made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor.

You gave them authority over all things." Now when it says "all things," it means nothing is left out. But we have not yet seen all things put under their authority.

This High Priest of ours understands our weaknesses, for he faced all of the same testings we do, yet he did not sin.

For although Levi wasn't born yet, the seed from which he came was in Abraham's body when Melchizedek collected the tithe from him.

All these people earned a good reputation because of their faith, yet none of them received all that God had promised.

After all, you have not yet given your lives in your struggle against sin.

For this world is not our permanent home; we are looking forward to a home yet to come.

You want what you don't have, so you scheme and kill to get it. You are jealous of what others have, but you can't get it, so you fight and wage war to take it away from them. Yet you don't have what you want because you don't ask God for it.

Elijah was as human as we are, and yet when he prayed earnestly that no rain would fall, none fell for three and a half years!

For you are free, yet you are God's slaves, so don't use your freedom as an excuse to do evil.