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Those things continued to befall them as warnings to others, and they were written down for the purpose of instructing us, in whose lives the climax of the ages has been reached.

Verse ConceptsExamples, Purpose OfDoubt, Dealing WithForeshadowingBible, Given ForEnd Of The AgesScripture TeachingOther Scriptures FulfilledInformation AgeEverything Happening For A Reasonteammates

Do I imply, you ask, that 'food offered to an idol has any meaning, or that an idol itself means any thing'?

Verse ConceptsIdolatryFood For Other godsOccultism Being Forbidden

Eat any food that has been sold in the market, instead of letting scruples of conscience oblige you to ask any questions about it;

Verse ConceptsMarketsNot Asking OthersFood PermittedEating Meatconsciencesales

But if anyone says to you, This food has been used as an offering, do not take it, on account of him who said it, and on account of his sense of right and wrong:

Verse ConceptsFeastingFood For Other godsMeat offeringsSacrificeEating Meatconscience

If one partakes of food after saying a blessing over it, why should one be denounced for eating what one has given thanks to God for?

Verse ConceptsThanksgivingThanking God For FoodThank YouThankfulness To OthersBeing GratefulGrateful HeartThanksgiving And GratitudeGiving Thanks

Every man who has something on his head while praying or prophesying disgraces his head.

Verse ConceptsVeilsCovering Heads

But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered dishonors her head, for it is one and the same thing as the woman who has been shaven.

Verse ConceptsWomenCovering HeadsBare HeadsWoman's PlaceWomen's Roles

For if a woman has no vail on, let her also be shaved. But if it is a shame to a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her have a vail.

Verse ConceptsBeing A WomenHairsCovering HeadsBare HeadsCutting HairWomen's RolesBeing A Woman Of GodHairwoman

but if any man has a mind to be contentious, I answer, we have no such custom, nor any of the churches of God.

Verse ConceptsDivisions, Contrary ToChurch Of GodWomen's Rolespractice

For first of all, it has come to my ears that when you come together in the church, there are divisions among you, and I take the statement to be true in part.

Verse ConceptsAttending ChurchAssemblyDivision Among ChristiansSchismsWeakness In DivisionDivisions Of OpinionTrusting Other PeopleEach Local ChurchMental Abusedivision

For when you take your food, everyone takes his meal before the other; and one has not enough food, and another is the worse for drink.

Verse ConceptsLord's SupperWaitingcommunionovereating

And there are a variety of [Christian] activities, but the same God provides the power for everyone to do all of them [i.e., it is God who empowers every person who has a gift].

Verse ConceptsVariety Of FunctionWhat God DoesTrinitySpiritual GiftsWorking For GodWorking For The LordBeing DifferentBeing Uniqueworkingexperience

But in fact, although it has many parts, there is only one body.

Verse ConceptsBodily LimbsOne ChurchThe BodyBeing Different

But those parts of the body which are beautiful have no need of such care: and so the body has been joined together by God in such a way as to give more honour to those parts which had need of it;

Verse ConceptsPeople Have Honour

For now [i.e., during the church's infant state] we see in a mirror [Note: God's word is elsewhere likened to a mirror. See James 1:22-25] indistinctly [i.e., because of having only partial knowledge and prophecy], but then [i.e., when the church matures and has the completed Scriptures], we will see face to face [i.e., clearly]. Now I have [only] partial knowledge, but then I will have full knowledge, just as [God has] full knowledge of me.

Verse ConceptsFulnessFulness Of KnowledgeFace Of GodMirrorsRevelation, Responses ToRiddlesSeeing GodUnderstandingVisionClarityCleaningWithheld KnowledgeIncompletenessBeing Face To Face With GodLooking Through WindowsDefective VisionAcquiring KnowledgeDrawbacks To KnowledgeNothing MissingGod Knowing His PeopleBlissful Vision In HeavenadhdSelf Image

For he who makes use of tongues is not talking to men but to God; because no one has the sense of what he is saying; but in the Spirit he is talking of secret things.

Verse ConceptsBaptism Of The Holy SpiritMysterySpiritual UnderstandingUnintelligiblenessPrayer LanguageLanguageThe Tonguespeakingsecrets

For this reason, let the man who has the power of using tongues make request that he may, at the same time, be able to give the sense.

Verse ConceptsInterpreting LanguageMental Abuse

For if you give a blessing with the spirit, how will the man who has no knowledge say, So be it, after your prayer, seeing that he has not taken in what you are saying?

Verse ConceptsAgreement, Before GodAmenNot Understanding Sayings

It has been written in the law; I will speak to this people with other tongues and with the lips of others; and thus they will not hearken unto me, says the Lord.

Verse ConceptsForeignersUnknown Languages

Hence, if the whole church has met and everybody speaks in ecstasy, and illiterate people or unbelievers come in, will they not say that you are crazy?

Verse ConceptsLanguages ConfusedAssemblyChurch OrderChurch GatheringsNot Believing The GospelEach Local ChurchReckoned Insane

But if something has been revealed to another person sitting there, the first prophet should be silent.

Verse ConceptsCurbing Speech

let the women keep silent in the churches, for it has not been permitted for them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as the Law also says.

Verse ConceptsChurchBeing A WomenWives, Duties OfGod ForbiddingThe churchWomen's RolesspeakingBeing A Woman Of Godorderwomanassertiveness

Now if it has been declared, that Christ rose from the dead, how comes it, that some among you assert, "there is no resurrection of the dead?"

Verse ConceptsResurrection, Of The DeadPreaching ChristAre The Dead Raised?Christ Would Rise

And we are found also false witnesses of God; for we have witnessed concerning God that he raised the Christ, whom he has not raised if indeed those that are dead are not raised.

Verse ConceptsAre The Dead Raised?Christ Would Risereality

For God has put everything under His feet. But when it says “everything” is put under Him, it is obvious that He who puts everything under Him is the exception.

Verse ConceptsGospel, Essence OfThings UnderInteraction Of Father And SonSubject To ChristPutting God First

And when everything has been put in subjection to Him, then the Son Himself will also become subject to Him who has put everything in subjection to Him, so that God may be everything to everybody.

Verse ConceptsJesus Christ, Son Of GodThe Submission Of ChristGod's FullnessInteraction Of Father And SonSubject To GodPutting God FirstGod Turning Bad Things Into Goodeverything

and when you sow it, it has not the form it is going to have, but is a naked kernel, perhaps of wheat or something else;

Verse ConceptsReaping What You SowPlanting SeedsChange And Growth

and God gives to it a body as he has pleased, and to each of the seeds its own body.

Verse ConceptsPlanting SeedsSeedsVarieties

All flesh is not the same [Note: The word "flesh" here refers to the material composition of matter, and in no way suggests anything sinful, as it does in many other places in Paul's writings]. But mankind has one [kind of] flesh; animals have another kind; birds have another; and fish [still] another.

Verse ConceptsBodies Of AnimalsBirds, Features OfVariety Of FormMammalsAnimals Having A SoulBirdsFishPetsBeing Differenthumanitystructure

The sun has one kind of beauty, and the moon another, and the stars another; why, one star differs from another in beauty.

Verse ConceptsAstronomyMoonVariety Of FormBeauty Of NatureSunThe Beauty Of NatureThe MoonBeing DifferentBeing Unique

When this corruptible is clothed
with incorruptibility,
and this mortal is clothed
with immortality,
then the saying that is written will take place:
Death has been swallowed up in victory.

Verse ConceptsThe Immortal SoulTransient BodyClothed With Good ThingsOvercoming DeathPeople Are CorruptibleScriptures Fulfilled

If Timothy comes, see that he has nothing to fear from you, because he is doing the Lord’s work, just as I am.

Verse ConceptsVisitingDoing God's WorksThose Not Fearing

See then that he has the honour which is right. But send him on his way in peace, so that he may come to me: for I am looking for him with the brothers.

Verse ConceptsDo Not DespiseGoing In PeacePeople Sending People

About our brother Apollos: I strongly urged him to come to you with the brothers, but he was not at all willing to come now. However, he will come when he has an opportunity.

Verse ConceptsApollosRight Time For People