Study Desk

This is because when you eat, each person eats without waiting for the others. Some people do not get enough to eat, while others have too much to drink.

You can eat and drink in your own homes! You seem to think God's church is not important, and you embarrass those who are poor. What should I tell you? Should I praise you? I do not praise you for doing this.

and gave thanks for it. Then he broke the bread and said, "This is my body; it is for you. Do this to remember me."

So my brothers and sisters, when you come together to eat, wait for each other.

Something from the Spirit can be seen in each person, for the common good.

so our body would not be divided. God wanted the different parts to care the same for each other.

And in a war, if the trumpet does not give a clear sound, who will prepare for battle?

The one who has the gift of speaking in a different language should pray for the gift to interpret what is spoken.

So the gift of speaking in different kinds of languages is a sign for those who do not believe, not for those who do believe. And prophecy is for people who believe, not for those who do not believe.

If they want to learn something, they should ask their own husbands at home. It is shameful for a woman to speak in the church meeting.

And you are being saved by it if you continue believing what I told you. If you do not, then you believed for nothing.

I passed on to you what I received, of which this was most important: that Christ died for our sins, as the Scriptures say;

If our hope in Christ is for this life only, we should be pitied more than anyone else in the world.

If the dead are never raised, what will people do who are being baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people being baptized for them?

But God gives it a body that he has planned for it, and God gives each kind of seed its own body.

Now I will write about the collection of money for God's people. Do the same thing I told the Galatian churches to do:

and if it seems good for me to go also, they will go along with me.

Perhaps I will stay with you for a time or even all winter. Then you can help me on my trip, wherever I go.

because a good opportunity for a great and growing work has been given to me now. And there are many people working against me.

If Timothy comes to you, see to it that he has nothing to fear with you, because he is working for the Lord just as I am.