Study Desk

For although I am a free man, not bound to do anyone's bidding, I have made myself a slave to all in order to win as many people as possible.

Accordingly, I don't run aimlessly but straight for the finish line; I don't shadow-box but try to make every punch count.

For, brothers, I don't want you to miss the significance of what happened to our fathers. All of them were guided by the pillar of cloud, and they all passed through the sea,

and they all drank the same drink from the Spirit — for they drank from a Spirit-sent Rock which followed them, and that Rock was the Messiah.

I speak to you as sensible people; judge for yourselves what I am saying.

No one should be looking out for his own interests, but for those of his fellow.

for the earth and everything in it belong to the Lord .

But if someone says to you, "This meat was offered as a sacrifice," then don't eat it, out of consideration for the person who pointed it out and also for conscience's sake —

If I participate with thankfulness, why am I criticized over something for which I myself bless God?"

Just as I try to please everyone in everything I do, not looking out for my own interests but for those of the many, so that they may be saved;

For if a woman is not veiled, let her also have her hair cut short; but if it is shameful for a woman to wear her hair cut short or to have her head shaved, then let her be veiled.

For a man indeed should not have his head veiled, because he is the image and glory of God, and the woman is the glory of man.

For man was not made from woman, but woman from man;

and indeed man was not created for the sake of the woman but woman for the sake of the man.

for as the woman was made from the man, so also the man is now born through the woman. But everything is from God.

Decide for yourselves: is it appropriate for a woman to pray to God when she is unveiled?

For, in the first place, I hear that when you gather together as a congregation you divide up into cliques; and to a degree I believe it

Don't you have homes to eat and drink in? Or are you trying to show your contempt for God's Messianic community and embarrass those who are poor? What am I supposed to say to you? Am I supposed to praise you? Well, for this I don't praise you!

For what I received from the Lord is just what I passed on to you — that the Lord Yeshua, on the night he was betrayed, took bread;

and after he had made the b'rakhah he broke it and said, "This is my body, which is for you. Do this as a memorial to me";