Study Desk

For the kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power.

For though I am absent in body but present in spirit, I have already decided about the one who has done this thing as though I were present.

turn that one over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the Day of the Lord.

Clean out the old yeast so that you may be a new batch. You are indeed unleavened, for Christ our Passover has been sacrificed.

For what business is it of mine to judge outsiders? Don't you judge those who are inside?

Therefore, to have legal disputes against one another is already a moral failure for you. Why not rather put up with injustice? Why not rather be cheated?

"Everything is permissible for me," but not everything is helpful. "Everything is permissible for me," but I will not be brought under the control of anything.

"Food for the stomach and the stomach for food," but God will do away with both of them. The body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

Don't you know that anyone joined to a prostitute is one body with her? For Scripture says, The two will become one flesh.

for you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God in your body.

Now in response to the matters you wrote about: "It is good for a man not to have relations with a woman."

Do not deprive one another sexually—except when you agree for a time, to devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again; otherwise, Satan may tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

I say to the unmarried and to widows: It is good for them if they remain as I am.

But if they do not have self-control, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with desire.

For the unbelieving husband is set apart for God by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is set apart for God by the husband. Otherwise your children would be corrupt, but now they are set apart for God.

For you, wife, how do you know whether you will save your husband? Or you, husband, how do you know whether you will save your wife?

For he who is called by the Lord as a slave is the Lord's freedman. Likewise he who is called as a free man is Christ's slave.

Therefore I consider this to be good because of the present distress: It is fine for a man to remain as he is.

and those who use the world as though they did not make full use of it. For this world in its current form is passing away.

Now I am saying this for your own benefit, not to put a restraint on you, but because of what is proper and so that you may be devoted to the Lord without distraction.