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So, for my part, brothers, I could not treat you as spiritual persons; I had to treat you just as creatures of flesh and blood, as babies in Christian living.

Verse ConceptsBabies, Figurative UseCounselingSpiritual ImmaturityLiving For The MaterialLike ChildrenSpiritualchristianityactingchristChristians Being Called Brothers

What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? They are just God's servants, through whose efforts, and as the Lord granted power to each, you accepted the faith.

Verse ConceptsEncouraging Faith In ChristOpportunity

If the structure which one builds is burned up, he will get no pay; and yet he himself will be saved, but just as one who goes through a fire.

Verse ConceptsSpiritual FailureFire Of JudgementBemalosing a loved oneLosing SomeonePurgatorysmoking

For even though I am absent physically, I am present in spirit. And I have already judged the one who did this, just as though I were present.

Verse ConceptsBelievers JudgingGone AwayIn Men's PresenceAbsence

Your boasting [over the supposed spirituality of your church] is not good [indeed, it is vulgar and inappropriate]. Do you not know that [just] a little leaven ferments the whole batch [of dough, just as a little sin corrupts a person or an entire church]?

Verse ConceptsDoughSexual Sin, Nature OfBad CompanyEvil AssociationsLeavenedA Little BitBoasting

The very fact that you have lawsuits among yourselves is already a defeat for you. Why not rather just accept the wrong? Why not rather be cheated?

Verse ConceptsdefeatRevenge, And RetaliationTypes Of ChristRobbing PeopleWronging Other PeopleInjusticeMoralityMoral Decay

But the person who is joined to the Lord is one spirit [with Him]. [Note: Just as the person who has sex with someone enters a close physical union with that person, so the person who becomes a Christian enters a close spiritual union with Christ].

Verse ConceptsFellowship With ChristParticipation, In ChristUnion With Christ, Nature OfUnited With GodSpiritual lifeGod's YokeGod Being With UsThe SoulGod Being With You

Do not refuse one another, unless perhaps it is just for a time and by mutual consent, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer and may then associate again; lest the Adversary begin to tempt you because of your deficiency in self-control.

Verse ConceptsAsh WednesdayAgreeing For GoodOne FleshSatan, As TempterSelf ControlSpiritual VitalityTemptation, ResistingTemptation, Sources OfSex Within MarriageAbstinenceBeing TemptedThe Devil Tempting PeoplesexFasting And PrayerSex Before MarriageSame Sex Marriagespousecouples

But what I have just said is by way of concession, not command.

Verse ConceptsMen's Orders

Now to those people who are not married [Note: This probably refers to all unmarried people, and not just to widowers, as some think], or who are widows, I say it is [a] good [idea] for them to remain like me [i.e., single. See verse

Verse ConceptsSinglenessVirginRemarriageGood ActivityUnmarriedRelationship TroublesStaying PositiveSex Before MarriageSame Sex MarriageNot Being AloneBeing Singlemarraige

Well, what I think is this: that, considering the imminent distress in these days, it would be an excellent plan for you to remain just as you are.

Verse ConceptsCelibacyDistressGood ActivityStress And Hard TimesBeing Single

For even if after all [there] are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth, just as [there] are many gods and many lords,

Verse ConceptsPolytheism

for if any man see you who have a just notion of idols, sitting at table in their temple, will not the person who is wrong in his notions be incouraged to eat what is offered to idols, tho' contrary to his own opinion?

Verse ConceptsKnowingFood For Other godsWeaknessEating Meatconscience

Do we not have the right to take a believing [i.e., a Christian] wife with us [on our preaching tours], just like the rest of the apostles, and the Lord's brothers do [i.e., James, Joseph, Judas and Simon. Mark 6:3], and Cephas [i.e., Peter]?

Verse ConceptsPeter, The ApostleBachelorsCompanionshipChrist's Earthly FamilyMarriage AllowedThe Apostles In ActionChristians Being Called Brothers

But I myself have never used any of these rights. And I am not writing this just to make it so in my case, for I had rather die than do that. No one shall rob me of this ground of boasting.

Verse ConceptsHope, Nature OfWagesPaul's BoastingBoasting

What then is my reward? [Just this:] that, when I preach the gospel, I may offer the gospel without charge [to everyone], so as not to take advantage of my rights [as a preacher and apostle] in [preaching] the gospel.

Verse ConceptsRightsAbuse, Of Spiritual ThingsMinisters, Way They Should TeachThe Gospel PreachedFree Of ChargeReward For WorksChargeRewardForgiving Others Who Hurt YouEvangelismSpreading The GospelNever Giving UpAbusepreachingfreeevangelizing

Now these [things] happened [as] examples for us, so that we should not be desirers of evil [things], just as those also desired [them],

Verse ConceptsExamples, Purpose OfForeshadowingPast, TheRebellion, Of IsraelExample Of BelieversEverything Happening For A Reason

just as I please everyone in all things [as much as possible adapting myself to the interests of others], not seeking my own benefit but that of the many, so that they [will be open to the message of salvation and] may be saved.

Verse ConceptsGiving, Of OneselfSelfishness, Shown InPleasing MenAdaptability

I praise and appreciate you because you remember me in everything and you firmly hold to the traditions [the substance of my instructions], just as I have passed them on to you.

Verse ConceptsFellowship, In The GospelCommendationPreaching, Content OfTraditionsComplimentsChristian TraditionsPraising Specific Peoplemindfulness

and any woman who offers prayer or explains the will of God bareheaded disgraces her head, for it is just as though she had her head shaved.

Verse ConceptsWomenCovering HeadsBare HeadsWoman's PlaceWomen's Roles

You know that there was a time when you were Gentiles, going astray after idols that could not speak, just as you happened to be led.

Verse ConceptsDumbnessMutenessPagansPolytheismCarrying IdolsDumbdiscriminationstatuesHinduism

But now [as things really are], God has placed and arranged the parts in the body, each one of them, just as He willed and saw fit [with the best balance of function].

Verse ConceptsBodily LimbsChristians, Names OfGod's PlanWorking TogetherPutting God FirstGods PlanGod's Plan For UsThe BodyServing The Churchalignment

just as the parts we consider rather dishonourable are the very parts we invest with special honour; our indecorous parts get a special care and attention

Verse ConceptsPeople Have HonourRespectSelf WorthSelf EsteemTreating OthersPositive ThinkingTaking Care Of Your BodyThe BodyRespecting Your Bodydignitychildbearinghonourimportance

and she is never rude; she never thinks just of herself or ever gets annoyed. She never is resentful;

Verse ConceptsAggressionBeing In LoveIrritationMannersDo Not Be SelfishPeople Forgiving OthersUnconditional Love

So it is with you, if you speak words [in an unknown tongue] that are not intelligible and clear, how will anyone understand what you are saying? You will be talking into the air [wasting your breath]!

Verse ConceptsMaking The Message ClearMere TalkIgnorant Of FactsLanguageThe TonguespeakingSpeech

the women should be silent in the churches, for they are not authorized to speak, but are to take a subordinate place, as the Law says.

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

What benefit was it to me, from a human standpoint, if I fought wild animals in Ephesus, and [yet] the dead are not raised? [Note: This probably refers to Paul facing ferocious opposition from people there in Ephesus]. We should [just] eat and drink, for tomorrow we [may] die.

Verse ConceptsFightingBitingMortalityPaul, Life OfPresent, ThePunishment, Legal Aspects OfCynicismMerrinessBeastsHow Death Is InevitableMen Similar To AnimalsImminent TomorrowMammalsAre The Dead Raised?Eating And Drinking

But God gives to it a body just as he wishes, and to each one of the seeds its own body.

Verse ConceptsPlanting SeedsSeedsVarieties

Just as earthly people are like the man who came from dust; so heavenly people are like the man who came from heaven.

Verse ConceptsCreatures From DustLike People By NatureLike ChristBelonging To HeavenChrist And Heaven

Now concerning the collection for the saints: just as I gave directions about [it] to the churches of Galatia, so you do also.

Verse ConceptsCollections

For I do not wish to see you right now just in passing, but I hope to remain with you for some time [later on], if the Lord permits.

Verse ConceptsGiving, Of TimeHope, Nature OfStaying A Long TimeTrusting God's Plan

If Timothy comes, see to it that [you put him at ease, so that] he has nothing to fear in regard to you, for he is [devotedly] doing the Lord’s work, just as I am.

Verse ConceptsVisitingDoing God's WorksThose Not Fearing

Now concerning our brother Apollos, I strongly urged him to visit you with the other brothers, but he was not inclined to do so just now. However, he will visit you when the time is right.

Verse ConceptsApollosRight Time For People