Study Desk

I say this because when you eat, each one eats without waiting for the others. Some people don't get enough to eat or drink, while others have too much.

These will all end because this knowledge and these prophecies we have are not complete.

You might be praising God with your spirit. But someone there without understanding cannot say "Amen" to your prayer of thanks, because they don't know what you are saying.

All the other apostles are greater than I am. I say this because I persecuted the church of God. That is why I am not even good enough to be called an apostle.

But, because of God's grace, that is what I am. And his grace that he gave me was not wasted. I worked harder than all the other apostles. (But I was not really the one working. It was God's grace that was with me.)

And we will also be guilty of lying about God, because we have told people about him, saying that he raised Christ from death. And if no one is raised from death, then God never raised Christ from death.

Death comes to people because of what one man did. But now there is resurrection from death because of another man.

I face death every day. That is true, brothers and sisters, just as it is true that I am proud of what you are because of Christ Jesus our Lord.

I fought wild animals in Ephesus. If I did that only for human reasons, then I have gained nothing. If we are not raised from death, "Let us eat and drink, because tomorrow we die."

I don't want to come see you now, because I would have to leave to go to other places. I hope to stay a longer time with you, if the Lord allows it.

I will stay here, because a good opportunity for a great and growing work has been given to me now. And there are many people working against it.

Greetings from Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus. I am an apostle because that is what God wanted. Greetings also from Timothy our brother in Christ. To God's church in Corinth and to all of God's holy people throughout Achaia.

And you can help us with your prayers. Then many people will give thanks for us—that God blessed us because of their many prayers.

But I had no peace because I did not find my brother Titus. So I said goodbye and went to Macedonia.

We can say this, because through Christ we feel sure before God.

The love of Christ controls us, because we know that one person died for everyone. So all have died.

Now I am happy, not because you were made sad, but because your sorrow made you decide to change. That is what God wanted, so you were not hurt by us in any way.

The main reason I wrote that letter was not because of the one who did the wrong or the one who was hurt. I wrote so that you would realize, before God, how very much you care for us.

I thank God because he gave Titus the same love for you that I have.

We are sending with Titus the brother who is praised by all the churches. He is praised because of his service to the Good News.