Study Desk

When you give thanks to God in spirit only, how can ordinary people taking part in the meeting say "Amen" to your prayer of thanksgiving? They have no way of knowing what you are saying.

Even if your prayer of thanks to God is quite good, other people are not helped at all.

I thank God that I speak in strange tongues much more than any of you.

their secret thoughts will be brought into the open, and they will bow down and worship God, confessing, "Truly God is here among you!"

This is what I mean, my friends. When you meet for worship, one person has a hymn, another a teaching, another a revelation from God, another a message in strange tongues, and still another the explanation of what is said. Everything must be of help to the church.

But if no one is there who can explain, then the one who speaks in strange tongues must be quiet and speak only to himself and to God.

But if someone sitting in the meeting receives a message from God, the one who is speaking should stop.

because God does not want us to be in disorder but in harmony and peace. As in all the churches of God's people,

Or could it be that the word of God came from you? Or are you the only ones to whom it came?

More than that, we are shown to be lying about God, because we said that he raised Christ from death—but if it is true that the dead are not raised to life, then he did not raise Christ.

Then the end will come; Christ will overcome all spiritual rulers, authorities, and powers, and will hand over the Kingdom to God the Father.

For Christ must rule until God defeats all enemies and puts them under his feet.

For the scripture says, "God put all things under his feet." It is clear, of course, that the words "all things" do not include God himself, who puts all things under Christ.

But when all things have been placed under Christ's rule, then he himself, the Son, will place himself under God, who placed all things under him; and God will rule completely over all.

Come back to your right senses and stop your sinful ways. I declare to your shame that some of you do not know God.

God provides that seed with the body he wishes; he gives each seed its own proper body.

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

From Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by God's will, and from our brother Timothy— To the church of God in Corinth, and to all God's people throughout Achaia:

May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace.

Let us give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the merciful Father, the God from whom all help comes!