Study Desk

but in the church I prefer to speak five words with my mind, in order that I may instruct other people, than ten thousand words in a tongue.

Brothers, do not become children in your understanding, but with respect to wickedness be as a child, and in your understanding be mature.

So then, tongues are for a sign not to those who believe, but to unbelievers, but prophecy is not for unbelievers, but for those who believe.

But if all prophesy, and some unbeliever or outsider enters, he is convicted by all, he is judged by all,

But if there is no interpreter, he must be silent in the church, but let him speak to himself and to God.

For God is not a God of disorder but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints,

the women must be silent in the churches, for it is not permitted for them to speak, but they must be in submission, just as the law also says.

But if they want to learn something, let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is shameful for a woman to speak in church.

But if anyone ignores this, he is ignored.

But let all things be done decently and according to proper procedure.

then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at once, the majority of whom remain until now, but some have fallen asleep.

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me has not been in vain, but I labored even more than all of them, and not I, but the grace of God with me.

But if there is no resurrection of the dead, Christ has not been raised either.

But if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain, and your faith is in vain.

But if Christ has not been raised, your faith is empty; you are still in your sins.

But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep.

But each in his own group: Christ the first fruits, then those who are Christ's at his coming,

For "he subjected all things under his feet." But when it says "all things" are subjected, it is clear that the one who subjected all things to him is not included.

But whenever all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will be subjected to the one who subjected all things to him, in order that God may be all in all.

But someone will say, "How are the dead raised? And with what sort of body do they come?"