Study Desk

We are fools for the sake of Christ, but you are prudent in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are glorious, but we are without honor!

For if you were to have countless tutors in Christ, yet you would not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel.

For this reason I have sent to you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, and who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, just as I teach everywhere in every church.

For the kingdom of God does not consist in words but in power.

For I, on my part, though absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged him who has so committed this, as though I were present:

deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.

Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, also was sacrificed.

I did not at all mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the greedy and swindlers, or with idolaters, for then you would have to go out of the world.

For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Are you not to judge those who are within the church?

Actually, then, it is already a failure for you, that you have lawsuits with one another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

All things are lawful for me, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be mastered by anything.

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

Or do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For He says, "The two shall become one flesh."

For you were bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.

Now concerning the things about which you wrote, it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

Stop depriving one another, except by agreement for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

But I say to the unmarried and to widows that it is good for them if they remain even as I.

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

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her believing husband. For otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

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