Study Desk

Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed.

But actually, I wrote to you not to associate with any so-called brother if he is a sexually immoral person, or a greedy person, or an idolater, or is verbally abusive, or habitually drunk, or a swindler—not even to eat with such a person.

So if you have law courts dealing with matters of this life, do you appoint them as judges who are of no account in the church?

I say this to your shame. Is it so, that there is not among you anyone wise who will be able to decide between his brothers and sisters,

Stop depriving one another, except by agreement for a time so that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

Only, as the Lord has assigned to each one, as God has called each, in this way let him walk. And so I direct in all the churches.

But this I say, brothers, the time has been shortened, so that from now on those who have wives should be as though they had none;

But if anyone thinks that he is acting dishonorably toward his virgin, if she is past her youth and it ought to be so, let him do what he wishes, he is not sinning; let them marry.

So then, both the one who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and the one who does not give her in marriage will do better.

For even if there are so-called gods whether in heaven or on earth, as indeed there are many gods and many lords,

And so, by sinning against the brothers and sisters and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

Therefore, if food causes my brother to sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause my brother to sin.

If others share the right over you, do we not more? Nevertheless, we did not use this right, but we endure all things so that we will cause no hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

So also the Lord directed those who proclaim the gospel to get their living from the gospel.

But I have used none of these things. And I have not written these things so that it will be done so in my case; for it would be better for me to die than that. No one shall make my boast an empty one!

What, then, is my reward? That, when I preach the gospel, I may offer the gospel without charge, so as not to make full use of my right in the gospel.

For though I am free from all people, I have made myself a slave to all, so that I may gain more.

To the Jews I became as a Jew, so that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the Law, I became as one under the Law, though not being under the Law myself, so that I might gain those who are under the Law;

to those who are without the Law, I became as one without the Law, though not being without the law of God but under the law of Christ, so that I might gain those who are without the Law.

To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak; I have become all things to all people, so that I may by all means save some.