Study Desk

I wish all of you spoke in other languages, but even more that you prophesied. The person who prophesies is greater than the person who speaks in languages, unless he interprets so that the church may be built up.

So also you—since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, seek to excel in building up the church.

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

Therefore, whether it is I or they, so we proclaim and so you have believed.

and if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation is without foundation, and so is your faith.

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

And when everything is subject to Christ, then the Son Himself will also be subject to the One who subjected everything to Him, so that God may be all in all.

So it is with the resurrection of the dead: Sown in corruption, raised in incorruption;

So it is written: The first man Adam became a living being ; the last Adam became a life-giving Spirit.

Like the man made of dust, so are those who are made of dust; like the heavenly man, so are those who are heavenly.

On the first day of the week, each of you is to set something aside and save in keeping with how he prospers, so that no collections will need to be made when I come.

and perhaps I will remain with you or even spend the winter, so that you may send me on my way wherever I go.

Therefore, no one should look down on him. Send him on his way in peace so he can come to me, for I am expecting him with the brothers.

He comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any kind of affliction, through the comfort we ourselves receive from God.

For as the sufferings of Christ overflow to us, so through Christ our comfort also overflows.

And our hope for you is firm, because we know that as you share in the sufferings, so you will share in the comfort.

For we don't want you to be unaware, brothers, of our affliction that took place in Asia: we were completely overwhelmed—beyond our strength—so that we even despaired of life.

Indeed, we personally had a death sentence within ourselves, so that we would not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead.

I planned with this confidence to come to you first, so you could have a double benefit,

So when I planned this, was I irresponsible? Or what I plan, do I plan in a purely human way so that I say "Yes, yes" and "No, no" simultaneously?