Study Desk

But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ.

For "God has put all things in subjection under his feet." But when it says, "all things are put in subjection," it is plain that he is excepted who put all things in subjection under him.

But someone will ask, "How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?"

And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain.

But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body.

For not all flesh is the same, but there is one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish.

There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is of one kind, and the glory of the earthly is of another.

But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual.

Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

But I will stay in Ephesus until Pentecost,

Now concerning our brother Apollos, I strongly urged him to visit you with the other brothers, but it was not at all his will to come now. He will come when he has opportunity.

Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead.

For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience, that we behaved in the world with simplicity and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God, and supremely so toward you.

For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we proclaimed among you, Silvanus and Timothy and I, was not Yes and No, but in him it is always Yes.

But I call God to witness against me—it was to spare you that I refrained from coming again to Corinth.

Not that we lord it over your faith, but we work with you for your joy, for you stand firm in your faith.

For if I cause you pain, who is there to make me glad but the one whom I have pained?

For I wrote to you out of much affliction and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to cause you pain but to let you know the abundant love that I have for you.

Now if anyone has caused pain, he has caused it not to me, but in some measure—not to put it too severely—to all of you.