Study Desk

Timothy, my fellow worker, sends you his greetings; and so do Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, fellow Jews.

My host Gaius, in whose house the church meets, sends you his greetings; Erastus, the city treasurer, and our brother Quartus send you their greetings.

God is to be trusted, the God who called you to have fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ, our Lord.

(Oh yes, I also baptized Stephanas and his family; but I can't remember whether I baptized anyone else.)

For God in his wisdom made it impossible for people to know him by means of their own wisdom. Instead, by means of the so-called "foolish" message we preach, God decided to save those who believe.

For while I was with you, I made up my mind to forget everything except Jesus Christ and especially his death on the cross.

But it was to us that God made known his secret by means of his Spirit. The Spirit searches everything, even the hidden depths of God's purposes.

God will destroy anyone who destroys God's temple. For God's temple is holy, and you yourselves are his temple.

Now, it is actually being said that there is sexual immorality among you so terrible that not even the heathen would be guilty of it. I am told that a man is sleeping with his stepmother!

you are to hand this man over to Satan for his body to be destroyed, so that his spirit may be saved in the Day of the Lord.

God raised the Lord from death, and he will also raise us by his power.

Or perhaps you don't know that the man who joins his body to a prostitute becomes physically one with her? The scripture says quite plainly, "The two will become one body."

Avoid immorality. Any other sin a man commits does not affect his body; but the man who is guilty of sexual immorality sins against his own body.

But because there is so much immorality, every man should have his own wife, and every woman should have her own husband.

A man should fulfill his duty as a husband, and a woman should fulfill her duty as a wife, and each should satisfy the other's needs.

A wife is not the master of her own body, but her husband is; in the same way a husband is not the master of his own body, but his wife is.

but if she does, she must remain single or else be reconciled to her husband; and a husband must not divorce his wife.

For the unbelieving husband is made acceptable to God by being united to his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made acceptable to God by being united to her Christian husband. If this were not so, their children would be like pagan children; but as it is, they are acceptable to God.

For a slave who has been called by the Lord is the Lord's free person; in the same way a free person who has been called by Christ is his slave.

But a married man concerns himself with worldly matters, because he wants to please his wife;