Study Desk

Now I praise you because you remember me in everything and hold fast to the traditions just as I delivered them to you.

A man should not cover his head, because he is the image and glory of God. So too, woman is the glory of man.

This is why a woman should have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels.

If the foot should say, “Because I’m not a hand, I don’t belong to the body,” it is not for that reason any less a part of the body.

And if the ear should say, “Because I’m not an eye, I don’t belong to the body,” it is not for that reason any less a part of the body.

For I am the least of the apostles, not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

Moreover, we are found to be false witnesses about God, because we have testified wrongly about God that he raised up Christ—whom he did not raise up, if in fact the dead are not raised.

Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.

because a wide door for effective ministry has opened for me—yet many oppose me.

If Timothy comes, see that he has nothing to fear while with you, because he is doing the Lord’s work, just as I am.

So let no one look down on him. Send him on his way in peace so that he can come to me, because I am expecting him with the brothers.

I am delighted to have Stephanas, Fortunatus, and Achaicus present, because these men have made up for your absence.

And our hope for you is firm, because we know that as you share in the sufferings, so you will also share in the comfort.

Because of this confidence, I planned to come to you first, so that you could have a second benefit,

I do not mean that we lord it over your faith, but we are workers with you for your joy, because you stand firm in your faith.

I wrote this very thing so that when I came I wouldn’t have pain from those who ought to give me joy, because I am confident about all of you that my joy will also be yours.

I had no rest in my spirit because I did not find my brother Titus. Instead, I said good-bye to them and left for Macedonia.

Now if the ministry that brought death, chiseled in letters on stones, came with glory, so that the Israelites were not able to gaze steadily at Moses’s face because of its glory, which was set aside,

In fact, what had been glorious is not glorious now by comparison because of the glory that surpasses it.

but their minds were hardened. For to this day, at the reading of the old covenant, the same veil remains; it is not lifted, because it is set aside only in Christ.