Study Desk

I did this so you would trust not in human wisdom but in the power of God.

And we have received God's Spirit (not the world's spirit), so we can know the wonderful things God has freely given us.

So don't boast about following a particular human leader. For everything belongs to you—

So look at Apollos and me as mere servants of Christ who have been put in charge of explaining God's mysteries.

So don't make judgments about anyone ahead of time—before the Lord returns. For he will bring our darkest secrets to light and will reveal our private motives. Then God will give to each one whatever praise is due.

Our dedication to Christ makes us look like fools, but you claim to be so wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are so powerful! You are honored, but we are ridiculed.

So I urge you to imitate me.

You are so proud of yourselves, but you should be mourning in sorrow and shame. And you should remove this man from your fellowship.

in the name of the Lord Jesus. You must call a meeting of the church. I will be present with you in spirit, and so will the power of our Lord Jesus.

Then you must throw this man out and hand him over to Satan so that his sinful nature will be destroyed and he himself will be saved on the day the Lord returns.

So let us celebrate the festival, not with the old bread of wickedness and evil, but with the new bread of sincerity and truth.

Don't you realize that we will judge angels? So you should surely be able to resolve ordinary disputes in this life.

Run from sexual sin! No other sin so clearly affects the body as this one does. For sexual immorality is a sin against your own body.

for God bought you with a high price. So you must honor God with your body.

But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband.

Do not deprive each other of sexual relations, unless you both agree to refrain from sexual intimacy for a limited time so you can give yourselves more completely to prayer. Afterward, you should come together again so that Satan won't be able to tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

So I say to those who aren't married and to widows—it's better to stay unmarried, just as I am.

God paid a high price for you, so don't be enslaved by the world.

But let me say this, dear brothers and sisters: The time that remains is very short. So from now on, those with wives should not focus only on their marriage.

So the person who marries his fiancée does well, and the person who doesn't marry does even better.