Study Desk

So my brothers and sisters, you should truly want to prophesy. But do not stop people from using the gift of speaking in different kinds of languages.

So if I preached to you or the other apostles preached to you, we all preach the same thing, and this is what you believed.

Just as we were made like the man of earth, so we will also be made like the man of heaven.

So this body that can be destroyed will clothe itself with that which can never be destroyed, and this body that dies will clothe itself with that which can never die. When this happens, this Scripture will be made true: "Death is destroyed forever in victory." Isaiah 25:8

So my dear brothers and sisters, stand strong. Do not let anything move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your work in the Lord is never wasted.

On the first day of every week, each one of you should put aside money as you have been blessed. Save it up so you will not have to collect money after I come.

I plan to go through Macedonia, so I will come to you after I go through there.

So none of you should treat Timothy as unimportant, but help him on his trip in peace so that he can come back to me. I am expecting him to come with the brothers.

He comforts us every time we have trouble, so when others have trouble, we can comfort them with the same comfort God gives us.

Truly, in our own hearts we believed we would die. But this happened so we would not trust in ourselves but in God, who raises people from the dead.

I was so sure of all this that I made plans to visit you first so you could be blessed twice.

Do you think that I made these plans without really meaning it? Or maybe you think I make plans as the world does, so that I say yes, yes and at the same time no, no.

So I decided that my next visit to you would not be another one to make you sad.

So I beg you to show that you love him.

I did this so that Satan would not win anything from us, because we know very well what Satan's plans are.

But I had no peace, because I did not find my brother Titus. So I said good-bye to them at Troas and went to Macedonia.

To those who are lost, we are the smell of death that brings death, but to those who are being saved, we are the smell of life that brings life. So who is able to do this work?

The law that brought death was written in words on stone. It came with God's glory, which made Moses' face so bright that the Israelites could not continue to look at it. But that glory later disappeared.

So surely the new way that brings the Spirit has even more glory.

We have this hope, so we are very bold.