Study Desk

Judge for yourselves: Is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered?

If anyone intends to quarrel about this, we have no other practice, nor do the churches of God.

Do you not have houses so that you can eat and drink? Or are you trying to show contempt for the church of God by shaming those who have nothing? What should I say to you? Should I praise you? I will not praise you for this!

So I want you to understand that no one speaking by the Spirit of God says, "Jesus is cursed," and no one can say, "Jesus is Lord," except by the Holy Spirit.

And there are different results, but the same God who produces all of them in everyone.

But as a matter of fact, God has placed each of the members in the body just as he decided.

but our presentable members do not need this. Instead, God has blended together the body, giving greater honor to the lesser member,

And God has placed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, gifts of healing, helps, gifts of leadership, different kinds of tongues.

For the one speaking in a tongue does not speak to people but to God, for no one understands; he is speaking mysteries by the Spirit.

Otherwise, if you are praising God with your spirit, how can someone without the gift say "Amen" to your thanksgiving, since he does not know what you are saying?

I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you,

The secrets of his heart are disclosed, and in this way he will fall down with his face to the ground and worship God, declaring, "God is really among you."

But if there is no interpreter, he should be silent in the church. Let him speak to himself and to God.

for God is not characterized by disorder but by peace. As in all the churches of the saints,

Did the word of God begin with you, or did it come to you alone?

For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me has not been in vain. In fact, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God with me.

Also, we are found to be false witnesses about God, because we have testified against God that he raised Christ from the dead, when in reality he did not raise him, if indeed the dead are not raised.

Then comes the end, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father, when he has brought to an end all rule and all authority and power.

And when all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will be subjected to the one who subjected everything to him, so that God may be all in all.