Study Desk

So no one should boast in human leaders, for everything is yours—

Now, brothers, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, so that you may learn from us the saying: "Nothing beyond what is written." The purpose is that none of you will be inflated with pride in favor of one person over another.

For who makes you so superior? What do you have that you didn't receive? If, in fact, you did receive it, why do you boast as if you hadn't received it?

You are already full! You are already rich! You have begun to reign as kings without us—and I wish you did reign, so that we could also reign with you!

And you are inflated with pride, instead of filled with grief so that he who has committed this act might be removed from your congregation.

turn that one over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the Day of the Lord.

Clean out the old yeast so that you may be a new batch. You are indeed unleavened, for Christ our Passover has been sacrificed.

So if you have cases pertaining to this life, do you select those who have no standing in the church to judge?

Don't you know that your bodies are a part of Christ's body? So should I take a part of Christ's body and make it part of a prostitute? Absolutely not!

But because sexual immorality is so common, each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband.

And I say this, brothers: The time is limited, so from now on those who have wives should be as though they had none,

and his interests are divided. An unmarried woman or a virgin is concerned about the things of the Lord, so that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But a married woman is concerned about the things of the world—how she may please her husband.

Now I am saying this for your own benefit, not to put a restraint on you, but because of what is proper and so that you may be devoted to the Lord without distraction.

But if any man thinks he is acting improperly toward his virgin, if she is past marriageable age, and so it must be, he can do what he wants. He is not sinning; they can get married.

So then he who marries his virgin does well, but he who does not marry will do better.

For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth—as there are many "gods" and many "lords"—

However, not everyone has this knowledge. In fact, some have been so used to idolatry up until now that when they eat food offered to an idol, their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

Therefore, if food causes my brother to fall, I will never again eat meat, so that I won't cause my brother to fall.

Or isn't He really saying it for us? Yes, this is written for us, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes should do so in hope of sharing the crop.

If others have this right to receive benefits from you, don't we even more? However, we have not made use of this right; instead we endure everything so that we will not hinder the gospel of Christ.