Study Desk

And so far as I myself was concerned, I came to you in conscious feebleness and in fear and in deep anxiety.

so that your trust might rest not on the wisdom of man but on the power of God.

But in dealing with truths hitherto kept secret we speak of God's wisdom--that hidden wisdom which, before the world began, God pre-destined, so that it should result in glory to us;

But we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which comes forth from God, that we may know the blessings that have been so freely given to us by God.

you are still unspiritual. For so long as jealousy and strife continue among you, can it be denied that you are unspiritual and are living and acting like mere men of the world?

So that neither the planter nor the waterer is of any importance. God who gives the increase is all in all.

Let no one deceive himself. If any man imagines that he is wise, compared with the rest of you, with the wisdom of the present age, let him become "foolish" so that he may be wise.

This being so, it follows that fidelity is what is required in stewards.

In writing this much, brethren, with special reference to Apollos and myself, I have done so for your sakes, in order to teach you by our example what those words mean, which say, "Nothing beyond what is written!" --so that you may cease to take sides in boastful rivalry, for one teacher against another.

Why, who gives you your superiority, my brother? Or what have you that you did not receive? And if you really did receive it, why boast as if this were not so?

I for my part, present with you in spirit although absent in body, have already, as though I were present, judged him who has so acted.

Get rid of the old yeast so that you may be dough of a new kind; for in fact you *are* free from corruption. For our Passover Lamb has already been offered in sacrifice--even Christ.

and as God by His power raised the Master to life, so He will also raise us up.

But because there is so much fornication every man should have a wife of his own, and every woman should have a husband.

Do not refuse one another, unless perhaps it is just for a time and by mutual consent, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer and may then associate again; lest the Adversary begin to tempt you because of your deficiency in self-control.

If, however, the unbeliever is determined to leave, let him or her do so. Under such circumstances the Christian man or woman is no slave; God has called us to live lives of peace.

Yet of this I warn you, brethren: the time has been shortened--so that henceforth those who have wives should be as though they had none,

If, however, a father thinks he is acting unbecomingly towards his still unmarried daughter if she be past the bloom of her youth, and so the matter is urgent, let him do what she desires; he commits no sin; she and her suitor should be allowed to marry.

So that he who gives his daughter in marriage does well, and yet he who does not give her in marriage will do better.

For if so-called gods do exist, either in Heaven or on earth--and in fact there are many such gods and many such lords--