Study Desk

Every test that you have experienced is the kind that normally comes to people. But God keeps his promise, and he will not allow you to be tested beyond your power to remain firm; at the time you are put to the test, he will give you the strength to endure it, and so provide you with a way out.

"We are allowed to do anything," so they say. That is true, but not everything is good. "We are allowed to do anything"—but not everything is helpful.

None of you should be looking out for your own interests, but for the interests of others.

But if someone tells you, "This food was offered to idols," then do not eat that food, for the sake of the one who told you and for conscience' sake—

that is, not your own conscience, but the other person's conscience. "Well, then," someone asks, "why should my freedom to act be limited by another person's conscience?

Just do as I do; I try to please everyone in all that I do, not thinking of my own good, but of the good of all, so that they might be saved.

But I want you to understand that Christ is supreme over every man, the husband is supreme over his wife, and God is supreme over Christ.

A man has no need to cover his head, because he reflects the image and glory of God. But woman reflects the glory of man;

for man was not created from woman, but woman from man.

Nor was man created for woman's sake, but woman was created for man's sake.

but on a woman it is a thing of beauty. Her long hair has been given her to serve as a covering.

But if anyone wants to argue about it, all I have to say is that neither we nor the churches of God have any other custom in worship.

But we are judged and punished by the Lord, so that we shall not be condemned together with the world.

There are different kinds of spiritual gifts, but the same Spirit gives them.

There are different ways of serving, but the same Lord is served.

There are different abilities to perform service, but the same God gives ability to all for their particular service.

But it is one and the same Spirit who does all this; as he wishes, he gives a different gift to each person.

For the body itself is not made up of only one part, but of many parts.

As it is, there are many parts but one body.

And so there is no division in the body, but all its different parts have the same concern for one another.