Study Desk

For I am the least of the apostles, 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 was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.

Moreover, we are found to be false witnesses about God, because we have testified wrongly about God that he raised up Christ—whom he did not raise up, if in fact the dead are not raised.

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

For God has put everything under his feet. Now when it says “everything” is put under him, it is obvious that he who puts everything under him is the exception.

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.

Come to your senses and stop sinning; for some people are ignorant about God. I say this to your shame.

But God gives it a body as he wants, and to each of the seeds its own body.

What I am saying, brothers and sisters, is this: Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor can corruption inherit incorruption.

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

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 the God of all comfort.

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.

Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death, so that we would not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead.

As God is faithful, our message to you is not “Yes and no.”

For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we proclaimed among you—Silvanus, Timothy, and I—did not become “Yes and no.” On the contrary, in him it is always “Yes.”

For every one of God’s promises is “Yes” in him. Therefore, through him we also say “Amen” to the glory of God.

Now it is God who strengthens us together with you in Christ, and who has anointed us.

I call on God as a witness, on my life, that it was to spare you that I did not come to Corinth.

But thanks be to God, who always leads us in Christ’s triumphal procession and through us spreads the aroma of the knowledge of him in every place.