Study Desk

I do all things for the sake of the gospel, so that I may become a fellow partaker of it.

Everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. So they do it to obtain a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.

but I strictly discipline my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.

Now these things happened as examples for us, so that we would not crave evil things as they indeed craved them.

No temptation has overtaken you except something common to mankind; and God is faithful, so He will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it.

just as I also please everyone in all things, not seeking my own benefit but the benefit of the many, so that they may be saved.

For as the woman originated from the man, so also the man has his birth through the woman; and all things originate from God.

For there also have to be factions among you, so that those who are approved may become evident among you.

But a person must examine himself, and in so doing he is to eat of the bread and drink of the cup.

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

So then, my brothers and sisters, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.

If anyone is hungry, have him eat at home, so that you do not come together for judgment. As to the remaining matters, I will give instructions when I come.

For just as the body is one and yet has many parts, and all the parts of the body, though they are many, are one body, so also is Christ.

whereas our more presentable parts have no need of it. But God has so composed the body, giving more abundant honor to that part which lacked,

so that there may be no division in the body, but that the parts may have the same care for one another.

If I have the gift of prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

And if I give away all my possessions to charity, and if I surrender my body so that I may glory, but do not have love, it does me no good.

Now I wish that you all spoke in tongues, but rather that you would prophesy; and greater is the one who prophesies than the one who speaks in tongues, unless he interprets, so that the church may receive edification.

So you too, unless you produce intelligible speech by the tongue, how will it be known what is spoken? For you will just be talking to the air.

So if I do not know the meaning of the language, I will be unintelligible to the one who speaks, and the one who speaks will be unintelligible to me.