Study Desk

If they want to find out about something, they should ask their husbands at home, because it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in church.

For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

The churches in the province of Asia send greetings to you. Aquila and Prisca greet you warmly in the Lord, with the church that meets in their house.

From Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the church of God that is in Corinth, with all the saints who are in all Achaia.

For you have heard of my former way of life in Judaism, how I was savagely persecuting the church of God and trying to destroy it.

And God put all things under Christ's feet, and he gave him to the church as head over all things.

Now the church is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

The purpose of this enlightenment is that through the church the multifaceted wisdom of God should now be disclosed to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly realms.

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

because the husband is the head of the wife as also Christ is the head of the church—he himself being the savior of the body.

But as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

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

so that he may present the church to himself as glorious—not having a stain or wrinkle, or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.

For no one has ever hated his own body but he feeds it and takes care of it, just as Christ also does the church,

This mystery is great—but I am actually speaking with reference to Christ and the church.

In my zeal for God I persecuted the church. According to the righteousness stipulated in the law I was blameless.

And as you Philippians know, at the beginning of my gospel ministry, when I left Macedonia, no church shared with me in this matter of giving and receiving except you alone.

He is the head of the body, the church, as well as the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he himself may become first in all things.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my physical body—for the sake of his body, the church—what is lacking in the sufferings of Christ.

I became a servant of the church according to the stewardship from God—given to me for you—in order to complete the word of God,