Study Desk

yes, making it my aim so to preach the gospel, not where Christ was already named, that I might not build on another man's foundation.

so that you come behind in no gift; waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ;

so that no one should say that I had baptized you into my own name.

For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel -- not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn't be made void.

For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God, except God's Spirit.

So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.

So let a man think of us as Christ's servants, and stewards of God's mysteries.

Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.

But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. He doesn't sin. Let them marry.

So then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and he who doesn't give her in marriage will do better.

A wife is bound by law for so long time as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whoever she desires, only in the Lord.

Even so did the Lord ordain that those who proclaim the gospel should live from the gospel.

But I have used none of these things, and I don't write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.

What then is my reward? That, when I preach the gospel, I may present the gospel of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the gospel.

For as the woman is from the man, so is the man also by the woman; but all things are from God.

But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.

For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.

If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don't have love, I am nothing.

So also you, unless you uttered by the tongue words easy to understand, how would it be known what is spoken? For you would be speaking into the air.

There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without meaning.