Study Desk

Who are you that you should find fault with the servant of another? Whether he stands or falls is a matter which concerns his own master. But stand he will; for the Master can give him power to stand.

One man esteems one day more highly than another; another esteems all days alike. Let every one be thoroughly convinced in his own mind.

Do not for food's sake be throwing down God's work. All food is pure; but a man is in the wrong if his food is a snare to others.

As for you and your faith, keep your faith to yourself in the presence of God. The man is to be congratulated who does not pronounce judgement on himself in what his actions sanction.

But he who has misgivings and yet eats meat is condemned already, because his conduct is not based on faith; for all conduct not based on faith is sinful.

Let each of us endeavour to please his fellow Christian, aiming at a blessing calculated to build him up.

For even the Christ did not seek His own pleasure. His principle was, "The reproaches which they addressed to Thee have fallen on me."

and that the Gentiles also have glorified God in acknowledgment of His mercy. So it is written, "For this reason I will praise Thee among the Gentiles, and sing psalms in honour of Thy name."

And again the Psalmist says, "Be glad, ye Gentiles, in company with His People."

But I entreat you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love which His Spirit inspires, to help me by wrestling in prayer to God on my behalf,

Greetings to Rufus, who is one of the Lord's chosen people; and to his mother, who has also been a mother to me.

to Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister and Olympas, and to all God's people associated with them.

To Him who has it in His power to make you strong, as declared in the Good News which I am spreading, and the proclamation concerning Jesus Christ, in harmony with the unveiling of the Truth which in the periods of past Ages remained unuttered,

God is ever true to His promises, and it was by Him that you were, one and all, called into fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ, our Lord.

For after the world by its wisdom--as God in His wisdom had ordained--had failed to gain the knowledge of God, God was pleased, by the apparent foolishness of the Message which we preach, to save those who accepted it.

in order that it may be as Scripture says, "He who boasts--let his boast be in the Lord."

Now in aim and purpose the planter and the waterer are one; and yet each will receive his own special reward, answering to his own special work.

Do you not know that you are God's Sanctuary, and that the Spirit of God has His home within you?

Therefore let no one boast about his human teachers.

It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and of a kind unheard of even among the Gentiles--a man has his father's wife!