Study Desk

What I wrote was that you should not keep on being with a person who calls himself a Christian if he does any kind of sex sins. You should not even eat with a person who says he is a Christian but always wants to get more of everything or uses bad language or who gets drunk or gets things in a wrong way.

Some of you were like that. But now your sins are washed away. You were set apart for God-like living to do His work. You were made right with God through our Lord Jesus Christ by the Spirit of our God.

I am allowed to do all things, but not everything is good for me to do! Even if I am free to do all things, I will not do them if I think it would be hard for me to stop when I know I should.

Food was meant for the stomach. The stomach needs food, but God will bring to an end both food and the stomach. The body was not meant for sex sins. It was meant to work for the Lord. The Lord is for our body.

But if you join yourself to the Lord, you are one with Him in spirit.

Have nothing to do with sex sins! Any other sin that a man does, does not hurt his own body. But the man who does a sex sin sins against his own body.

But because of being tempted to sex sins, each man should get married and have his own wife. Each woman should get married and have her own husband.

I wish everyone were as I am, but each has his own gift from God. One has one gift. Another has another gift.

But if you are not able to keep from doing that which you know is wrong, get married. It is better to get married than to have such strong sex desires.

but if she does leave him, she should not get married to another man. It would be better for her to go back to her husband. The husband should not divorce his wife.

Were you a servant who was owned by someone when you became a Christian? Do not worry about it. But if you are able to become free, do that.

If you do get married, you have not sinned. If a woman who is not married gets married, it is no sin. But being married will add problems. I would like to have you free from such problems.

But if a man has the power to keep from getting married and knows in his mind that he should not, he is wise if he does not get married.

The man who gets married does well, but the man who does not get married does better.

I want to write about food that has been given as a gift in worship to a false god. We all know something about it. Knowing about it makes one feel important. But love makes one strong.

But if he loves God, he is known by God also.

But we know there is only one God. He is the Father. All things are from Him. He made us for Himself. There is one Lord. He is Jesus Christ. He made all things. He keeps us alive.

Other people may not think of me as a missionary, but you do. It proves I am a missionary because you are Christians now.

If other people have the right to expect this from you, do we not have more right? But we have not asked this of you. We have suffered many things. We did this so the Good News of Christ would not be held back.

No man has any hold on me, but I have made myself a workman owned by all. I do this so I might lead more people to Christ.