Study Desk

(Oh yes, I did also immerse Stephanas and his household; beyond that, I can't remember whether I immersed anyone else.)

For God's wisdom ordained that the world, using its own wisdom, would not come to know him. Therefore God decided to use the "nonsense" of what we proclaim as his means of saving those who come to trust in it.

It is his doing that you are united with the Messiah Yeshua. He has become wisdom for us from God, and righteousness and holiness and redemption as well!

planter and waterer are the same. However, each will be rewarded according to his work.

if it is burned up, he will have to bear the loss: he will still escape with his life, but it will be like escaping through a fire.

It is actually being reported that there is sexual sin among you, and it is sexual sin of a kind that is condemned even by pagans — a man is living with his stepmother!

hand over such a person to the Adversary for his old nature to be destroyed, so that his spirit may be saved in the Day of the Lord.

God raised up the Lord, and he will raise us up too by his power.

Run from sexual immorality! Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the fornicator sins against his own body.

Well, because of the danger of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

The husband should give his wife what she is entitled to in the marriage relationship, and the wife should do the same for her husband.

The wife is not in charge of her own body, but her husband is; likewise, the husband is not in charge of his own body, but his wife is.

Actually, I wish everyone were like me; but each has his own gift from God, one this, another that.

But if she does separate herself, she is to remain single or be reconciled with her husband. Also, a husband is not to leave his wife.

Was someone already circumcised when he was called? Then he should not try to remove the marks of his circumcision. Was someone uncircumcised when he was called? He shouldn't undergo b'rit-milah.

with how to please the Lord; but the married man concerns himself with the world's affairs, with how to please his wife;

Now if a man thinks he is behaving dishonorably by treating his fiancée this way, and if there is strong sexual desire, so that marriage is what ought to happen; then let him do what he wants — he is not sinning: let them get married.

But if a man has firmly made up his mind, being under no compulsion but having complete control over his will, if he has decided within himself to keep his fiancée a virgin, he will be doing well.

So the man who marries his fiancée will do well, and the man who doesn't marry will do better.

Did you ever hear of a soldier paying his own expenses? or of a farmer planting a vineyard without eating its grapes? Who shepherds a flock without drinking some of the milk?