Study Desk

So you see that God is kind and also very strict. He punishes those who stop following him. But God is kind to you, if you continue following in his kindness. If you do not, you will be cut off from the tree.

God never changes his mind about the people he calls and the things he gives them.

Yes, God's riches are very great, and his wisdom and knowledge have no end! No one can explain the things God decides or understand his ways.

My friends, do not try to punish others when they wrong you, but wait for God to punish them with his anger. It is written: "I will punish those who do wrong; I will repay them," says the Lord.

But you should do this: "If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him a drink. Doing this will be like pouring burning coals on his head." Proverbs 25:21–22

The Scripture also says, "Be happy, you who are not Jews, together with his people." Deuteronomy 32:43

to be a minister of Christ Jesus to those who are not Jews. I served God by teaching his Good News, so that the non-Jewish people could be an offering that God would accept—an offering made holy by the Holy Spirit.

Greetings to Rufus, who is a special person in the Lord, and to his mother, who has been like a mother to me also.

Greetings to Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and to all God's people with them.

Gaius is letting me and the whole church here use his home. He also sends greetings to you, as do Erastus, the city treasurer, and our brother Quartus.

God, who has called you into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, is faithful.

God did this so that no one can brag in his presence.

I decided that while I was with you I would forget about everything except Jesus Christ and his death on the cross.

Who knows the thoughts that another person has? Only a person's spirit that lives within him knows his thoughts. It is the same with God. No one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.

The one who plants and the one who waters have the same purpose, and each will be rewarded for his own work.

People should think of us as servants of Christ, the ones God has trusted with his secrets.

It is actually being said that there is sexual sin among you. And it is a kind that does not happen even among people who do not know God. A man there has his father's wife.

then hand this man over to Satan. So his sinful self will be destroyed, and his spirit will be saved on the day of the Lord.

By his power God has raised the Lord from the dead and will also raise us from the dead.

But because sexual sin is a danger, each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband.