Study Desk

It is not that I just want to receive gifts; rather, I want to see profit added to your account.

For even though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, and I am glad as I see the resolute firmness with which you stand together in your faith in Christ.

See to it, then, that no one enslaves you by means of the worthless deceit of human wisdom, which comes from the teachings handed down by human beings and from the ruling spirits of the universe, and not from Christ.

As for us, friends, when we were separated from you for a little while—not in our thoughts, of course, but only in body—how we missed you and how hard we tried to see you again!

Now Timothy has come back, and he has brought us the welcome news about your faith and love. He has told us that you always think well of us and that you want to see us just as much as we want to see you.

Day and night we ask him with all our heart to let us see you personally and supply what is needed in your faith.

See that no one pays back wrong for wrong, but at all times make it your aim to do good to one another and to all people.

As I write this letter to you, I hope to come and see you soon.

The sins of some people are plain to see, and their sins go ahead of them to judgment; but the sins of others are seen only later.

He alone is immortal; he lives in the light that no one can approach. No one has ever seen him; no one can ever see him. To him be honor and eternal power! Amen.

I remember your tears, and I want to see you very much, so that I may be filled with joy.

But they will not get very far, because everyone will see how stupid they are. That is just what happened to Jannes and Jambres.

Do your best to help Zenas the lawyer and Apollos to get started on their travels, and see to it that they have everything they need.

and made them rulers over all things." It says that God made them "rulers over all things"; this clearly includes everything. We do not, however, see human beings ruling over all things now.

But we do see Jesus, who for a little while was made lower than the angels, so that through God's grace he should die for everyone. We see him now crowned with glory and honor because of the death he suffered.

We see, then, that they were not able to enter the land, because they did not believe.

You see, then, how great he was. Abraham, our famous ancestor, gave him one tenth of all he got in the battle.

Let us not give up the habit of meeting together, as some are doing. Instead, let us encourage one another all the more, since you see that the Day of the Lord is coming nearer.

To have faith is to be sure of the things we hope for, to be certain of the things we cannot see.

It was faith that made Noah hear God's warnings about things in the future that he could not see. He obeyed God and built a boat in which he and his family were saved. As a result, the world was condemned, and Noah received from God the righteousness that comes by faith.