Study Desk

In every church I tell the people to stay as they were when the Lord Jesus chose them and God called them to be his own. Now I say the same thing to you.

When the Lord chooses slaves, they become his free people. And when he chooses free people, they become slaves of Christ.

But a married man has more worries. He must worry about the things of this world, because he wants to please his wife.

This means that any man who prays or prophesies with something on his head brings shame to his head.

Men were created to be like God and to bring honor to God. This means that a man should not wear anything on his head. Women were created to bring honor to men.

I have already told you what the Lord Jesus did on the night he was betrayed. And it came from the Lord himself. He took some bread in his hands.

After the meal, Jesus took a cup of wine in his hands and said, "This is my blood, and with it God makes his new agreement with you. Drink this and remember me."

The Lord meant that when you eat this bread and drink from this cup, you tell about his death until he comes.

But if you eat the bread and drink the wine in a way that isn't worthy of the Lord, you sin against his body and blood.

Together you are the body of Christ. Each one of you is part of his body.

But God was kind! He made me what I am, and his wonderful kindness wasn't wasted. I worked much harder than any of the other apostles, although it was really God's kindness at work and not me.

But we must each wait our turn. Christ was the first to be raised to life, and his people will be raised to life when he returns.

Christ will rule until he puts all his enemies under his power,

When the Scriptures say that he will put everything under his power, they don't include God. It was God who put everything under the power of Christ.

After everything is under the power of God's Son, he will put himself under the power of God, who put everything under his Son's power. Then God will mean everything to everyone.

You know that Stephanas and his family were the first in Achaia to have faith in the Lord. They have done all they can for God's people. My friends, I ask you

and put his Spirit in our hearts to show that we belong only to him.

I have done this to keep Satan from getting the better of us. We all know what goes on in his mind.

He makes us worthy to be the servants of his new agreement that comes from the Holy Spirit and not from a written Law. After all, the Law brings death, but the Spirit brings life.

We are not like Moses. His face was shining, but he covered it to keep the people of Israel from seeing the brightness fade away.