Study Desk

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by God's will, and Timothy our brother: To God's church at Corinth, with all the saints who are throughout Achaia.

For you have heard about my former way of life in Judaism: I persecuted God's church to an extreme degree and tried to destroy it.

And He put everything under His feet and appointed Him as head over everything for the church,

This is so God's multi-faceted wisdom may now be made known through the church to the rulers and authorities in the heavens.

to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

for the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of the body.

Now as the church submits to Christ, so wives are to submit to their husbands in everything.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for her

He did this to present the church to Himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or anything like that, but holy and blameless.

For no one ever hates his own flesh but provides and cares for it, just as Christ does for the church,

This mystery is profound, but I am talking about Christ and the church.

regarding zeal, persecuting the church; regarding the righteousness that is in the law, blameless.

And you Philippians know that in the early days of the gospel, when I left Macedonia, no church shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving except you alone.

He is also the head of the body, the church; He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He might come to have first place in everything.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I am completing in my flesh what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for His body, that is, the church.

Give my greetings to the brothers in Laodicea, and to Nympha and the church in her home.

When this letter has been read among you, have it read also in the church of the Laodiceans; and see that you also read the letter from Laodicea.

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy: To the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace to you and peace.

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy: To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

(If anyone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he take care of God's church?)