Study Desk

I thank God that I speak in tongues more than you all;

the secrets of his heart are disclosed; and so he will fall on his face and worship God, declaring that surely God is among you.

but if there is no translator, he must keep silent in the church, and let him speak to himself and to God.

for God is not a God of confusion but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints.

Was it from you that the word of God first went forth? Or has it arrived to you only?

But if anyone remains ignorant about this, he is ignored by God.

For I am the least of the apostles, and not worthy 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 toward me did not prove vain; but I labored even more than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God with me.

Moreover we are even found to be false witnesses of God, because we bore witness against God that He raised Christ, whom He did not raise, if in fact the dead are not raised.

Then comes the end, when He hands over the kingdom to the God and Father, when He has abolished all rule and all authority and power.

And when all things are subjected to Him, then the Son Himself also will be subjected to the One who subjected all things to Him, so that God may be all in all.

Become righteously sober-minded, and stop sinning; for some have no knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.

But God gives it a body just as He wished, and to each of the seeds a body of its own.

Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the corruptible inherit the incorruptible.

but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the church of God which is at Corinth with all the saints who are throughout Achaia:

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,

who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

Indeed, we had the sentence of death within ourselves so that we would not have confidence in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead;