Study Desk

I treat my body hard and make it my slave so that, after proclaiming the Good News to others, I myself will not be disqualified.

Yet with the majority of them God was not pleased, so their bodies were strewn across the desert.

No temptation has seized you beyond what people normally experience, and God can be trusted not to allow you to be tempted beyond what you can bear. On the contrary, along with the temptation he will also provide the way out, so that you will be able to endure.

So, what am I saying? That food sacrificed to idols has any significance in itself? or that an idol has significance in itself?

Well, whatever you do, whether it's eating or drinking or anything else, do it all so as to bring glory to God.

Just as I try to please everyone in everything I do, not looking out for my own interests but for those of the many, so that they may be saved;

for as the woman was made from the man, so also the man is now born through the woman. But everything is from God.

because as you eat your meal, each one goes ahead on his own; so that one stays hungry while another is already drunk!

So let a person examine himself first, and then he may eat of the bread and drink from the cup;

But when we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined, so that we will not be condemned along with the world.

So then, my brothers, when you gather together to eat, wait for one another.

If someone is hungry, he should eat at home, so that when you meet together it will not result in judgment. As for the other matters, I will instruct you about them when I come.

For just as the body is one but has many parts; and all the parts of the body, though many, constitute one body; so it is with the Messiah.

If the foot says, "I'm not a hand, so I'm not part of the body," that doesn't make it stop being part of the body.

And if the ear says, "I'm not an eye, so I'm not part of the body," that doesn't make it stop being part of the body.

So the eye cannot say to the hand, "I don't need you"; or the head to the feet, "I don't need you."

So that there will be no disagreements within the body, but rather all the parts will be equally concerned for all the others.

I wish you would all speak in tongues, but even more I wish you would all prophesy. The person who prophesies is greater than the person who speaks in tongues, unless someone gives an interpretation, so that the congregation can be edified.

So, what about it? I will pray with my spirit, but I will also pray with my mind; I will sing with my spirit, but I will also sing with my mind.

So if the whole congregation comes together with everybody speaking in tongues, and uninstructed people or unbelievers come in, won't they say you're crazy?