Study Desk

For who sees anything different in you? What have you that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if it were not a gift?

For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, like men sentenced to death; because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels and to men.

We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute.

For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

For the kingdom of God does not consist in talk but in power.

It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and of a kind that is not found even among pagans; for a man is living with his father's wife.

For though absent in body I am present in spirit, and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment

you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our paschal lamb, has been sacrificed.

For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge?

To have lawsuits at all with one another is defeat for you. Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded?

"All things are lawful for me," but not all things are helpful. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be enslaved by anything.

"Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food" --and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

Do you not know that he who joins himself to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, "The two shall become one flesh."

Now concerning the matters about which you wrote. It is well for a man not to touch a woman.

For the wife does not rule over her own body, but the husband does; likewise the husband does not rule over his own body, but the wife does.

Do not refuse one another except perhaps by agreement for a season, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, lest Satan tempt you through lack of self-control.

To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is well for them to remain single as I do.

But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to be aflame with passion.

For the unbelieving husband is consecrated through his wife, and the unbelieving wife is consecrated through her husband. Otherwise, your children would be unclean, but as it is they are holy.