Study Desk

So don’t judge anything prematurely, before the Lord comes, who will both bring to light what is hidden in darkness and reveal the intentions of the hearts. And then praise will come to each one from God.

For I think God has displayed us, the apostles, in last place, like men condemned to die: We have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to people.

For the kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power.

God judges outsiders. Remove the evil person from among you.

And some of you used to be like this. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

“Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food,” and God will do away with both of them. However, the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

God raised up the Lord and will also raise us up by his power.

Don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

for you were bought at a price. So glorify God with your body.

I wish that all people were as I am. But each has his own gift from God, one person has this gift, another has that.

But if the unbeliever leaves, let him leave. A brother or a sister is not bound in such cases. God has called you to live in peace.

Let each one live his life in the situation the Lord assigned when God called him. This is what I command in all the churches.

Brothers and sisters, each person is to remain with God in the situation in which he was called.

But she is happier if she remains as she is, in my opinion. And I think that I also have the Spirit of God.

But if anyone loves God, he is known by him.

About eating food sacrificed to idols, then, we know that “an idol is nothing in the world,” and that “there is no God but one.”

yet for us there is one God, the Father. All things are from him, and we exist for him. And there is one Lord, Jesus Christ. All things are through him, and we exist through him.

Food will not bring us close to God. We are not worse off if we don’t eat, and we are not better if we do eat.

For it is written in the law of Moses, Do not muzzle an ox while it treads out grain. Is God really concerned about oxen?

Nevertheless God was not pleased with most of them, since they were struck down in the wilderness.