Study Desk

For this corruptible body must be clothed with incorruptibility, and this mortal body must be clothed with immortality.

Now about the collection for the saints: Do the same as I instructed the Galatian churches.

If it is suitable for me to go as well, they will travel with me.

I will come to you after I pass through Macedonia—for I will be traveling through Macedonia—

because a wide door for effective ministry has opened for me—yet many oppose me.

I am delighted to have Stephanas, Fortunatus, and Achaicus present, because these men have made up for your absence.

For they have refreshed my spirit and yours. Therefore recognize such people.

For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow to us, so also through Christ our comfort overflows.

If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings that we suffer.

And our hope for you is firm, because we know that as you share in the sufferings, so you will also share in the comfort.

while you join in helping us by your prayers. Then many will give thanks on our behalf for the gift that came to us through the prayers of many.

For we are writing nothing to you other than what you can read and also understand. I hope you will understand completely—

just as you have partially understood us—that we are your reason for pride, just as you also are ours in the day of our Lord Jesus.

For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we proclaimed among you—Silvanus, Timothy, and I—did not become “Yes and no.” On the contrary, in him it is always “Yes.”

For every one of God’s promises is “Yes” in him. Therefore, through him we also say “Amen” to the glory of God.

I do not mean that we lord it over your faith, but we are workers with you for your joy, because you stand firm in your faith.

For if I cause you pain, then who will cheer me other than the one being hurt by me?

For I wrote to you with many tears out of an extremely troubled and anguished heart—not to cause you pain, but that you should know the abundant love I have for you.

This punishment by the majority is sufficient for that person.

I wrote for this purpose: to test your character to see if you are obedient in everything.