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By my words and actions, through the power displayed in signs and marvels, and through the power of the Holy Spirit. And so, starting from Jerusalem and its neighborhood, and going as far as Illyria, I have told in full the Good News of the Christ;

Verse ConceptsApostles, IdentficationGod, Power OfMiraculous SignsMinisters, Way They Should TeachPower Of Holy Spirit, Shown InPower Through The SpiritSigns And Wonders Of The GospelThe power of Christ

But as Scripture says--'They to whom he had never been proclaimed shall see; and they who have never heard shall understand!'

Verse ConceptsUnderstandingTelling Of GodUnhearingLooking At God's WorksUnderstanding God's Wordevangelising

That is why I have so often been prevented from coming to you.

Verse ConceptsHindering God's Work

But now there are no further openings for me in these parts, and I have for several years been longing to come to you whenever I may be going to Spain.

Verse ConceptsAffection, ExpressingNo RoomRight Desires

For my hope is to visit you on my journey, and then to be sent on my way by you, after I have first partly satisfied myself by seeing something of you.

Verse ConceptsEnjoyment, Material ThingsHope, Nature OfJourneyMissionaries, Support ForPlansPassing ByCompanionshipPeople HelpingHope Regarding Believers

For Macedonia and Greece have been glad to make a collection for the poor among Christ's People at Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsCollectionsMoney, Stewardship OfPoverty, Causes OfPoverty, Remedies ForRiches, Believers AttitudesGiving To The Poor

Yes, they were glad to do so; and indeed it is a duty which they owe to them. For the Gentile converts who have shared their spiritual blessings are in duty bound to minister to them in the things of this world.

Verse ConceptsFellowship, In The GospelParticipation, In ChristUnity, Of God's PeopleThat Which Is SpiritualLife In A Material WorldSharing In ChristSharingDebt

When I have settled this matter, and have secured to the poor at Jerusalem the enjoyment of these benefits, I shall go, by way of you, to Spain.

Verse ConceptsThe Completion Of RedemptionCompletion

To Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who have worked hard for the Master; to my dear friend Persis, for she has done much hard work for the Master;

Verse ConceptsdiligenceWomenThose Who ToiledWorkers

To the Church of God in Corinth, to those who have been consecrated by union with Christ Jesus and called to become his People, and also to all, wherever they may be, who invoke the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ-their Master and ours,

Verse Conceptselection, responsibilities ofPaul As An ApostleGod, Purpose OfLettersCalling, Of IndividualsWhat God's Will IsChurch Of GodoutreachChristians Being Called Brothers

For I have been informed, my Brothers, by the members of Chloe's household, that party feeling exists among you.

Verse ConceptsArguingTelling Of People's Situations

You have rent the Christ in pieces! Was it Paul who was crucified for you? or were you baptized into the Faith of Paul?

Verse ConceptsDivisions, Contrary ToSchismsBaptised Into ChristChrist Was KilledBaptismdivisiongroups

And as for us, it is not the Spirit of the World that we have received, but the Spirit that comes from God, that we may realize the blessings given to us by him.

Verse ConceptsGrace, And Holy SpiritUnderstandingGod Giving UnderstandingGod Giving His SpiritTaught By The SpiritKnowing About God's KingdomSpiritual Giftssonship

All this, Brothers, I have, for your sakes, applied to Apollos and myself, so that, from our example, you may learn to observe the precept-'Keep to what is written,' that none of you may speak boastfully of one teacher to the disparagement of another.

Verse Conceptsdiscipleship, nature ofApollosPartialityDo Not Be Proudsisterhood

Are you all so soon satisfied? Are you so soon rich? Have you begun to reign without us? Would indeed that you had, so that we also might reign with you!

Verse ConceptsComplacencyExaggerationsBitingFilling PeopleAuthority Of DisciplesGetting Rich

Though you may have thousands of instructors in the Faith of Christ, yet you have not many fathers. It was I who, through union with Christ Jesus, became your father by means of the Good News.

Verse ConceptsGuardsPaul, Apostle To GentilesNew Birth, The Means OfSpiritual FathersFathers BirthdayparentingDadsSchoolParenting Responsibilities

For I myself, though absent in body, have been present with you in spirit, and in the name of our Lord Jesus I have already passed judgment, just as if I had been present, upon the man who has acted in this way.

Verse ConceptsBelievers JudgingGone AwayIn Men's PresenceAbsence

Not, of course, meaning men of the world who are in immoral, or who are covetous and grasping, or who worship idols; for then you would have to leave the world altogether.

Verse ConceptsGreed, Condemnation OfExtortionNature Of IdolatryGreedSexual ImmoralitySexual Puritycheaters

Why, then, if you have cases relating to the affairs of this life, do you set to try them men who carry no weight with the Church? To your shame I ask it.

Verse ConceptsGoing To Church

To begin with, it is undoubtedly a loss to you to have lawsuits with one another. Why not rather let yourselves be wronged? Why not rather let yourselves be cheated?

Verse ConceptsdefeatRevenge, And RetaliationTypes Of ChristRobbing PeopleWronging Other PeopleInjusticeMoralityMoral Decay

Or a thief, or covetous, or a drunkard, or abusive, or grasping, will have any share in God's Kingdom.

Verse ConceptsAlcoholAlcohol AbuseAddictionAlcoholicsCovetousnessDrunkennessInheritanceGreedthievescheatersdrunkards

With regard to unmarried women, I have no command from the Master to give you, but I tell you my opinion, and it is that of a man whom the Master in his mercy has made worthy to be trusted.

Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, Examples OfOpinionsReceiving God's MercyGod's OrdersBeing Singlevirginity

I think, then, that, in view of the time of suffering that has now come upon us, what I have already said is best-that a man should remain as he is.

Verse ConceptsCelibacyDistressGood ActivityStress And Hard TimesBeing Single

Yet she will be happier if she remains as she is-in my opinion, for I think that I also have the Spirit of God.

Verse ConceptsReceptivenessThe Holy Spirit, And ScriptureStaying PositiveBeing Singledistractionsego

With reference to food that has been offered in sacrifice to idols-We are aware that all of us have knowledge! Knowledge breeds conceit, while love builds up character.

Verse ConceptsAcademicsPride, OriginArrogance, In The ChurchBuilding Up The ChurchKnowingDrawbacks To Knowledge

If a man thinks that he knows anything, he has not yet reached that knowledge which he ought to have reached.

Verse ConceptsPride, Results OfThe Vanity Of Human KnowledgeDrawbacks To KnowledgeInformation Age

Am I not free? Am I not an Apostle? Have I not seen our Lord Jesus? Are not you yourselves my work achieved in union with the Lord?

Verse ConceptsPaul, Apostle To GentilesOne's DeedsWorking For The Lord

Have not we a right to take a wife with us, if she is a Christian, as the other Apostles and the Master's brothers and Kephas all do?

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

Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to give up working for our bread?

Verse ConceptsBarnabasevangelists, ministry ofdisagreements

I, however, have not availed myself of any of these rights. I am not saying this to secure such an arrangement for myself; indeed, I would far rather die-Nobody shall make my boast a vain one!

Verse ConceptsHope, Nature OfWagesPaul's BoastingBoasting

If I do this work willingly, I have a reward; but, if unwillingly, I have been charged to perform a duty.

Verse ConceptsCommitment, to GodStewardshipTrustworthinessPeople WillingReward For WorksResponsibility

To those who have no Law I became like a man who has no Law- -not that I am free from God's Law; no, for I am under Christ's Law-to win those who have no law.

Verse ConceptsJustification By FaithThe Law Of ChristWithout The LawStaying Strong And Not Giving UpStaying PositivePositive ThinkingNever Giving UpNot Being Alonelawactingfreeorderflexibilitychrist

If, however, any one still thinks it right to contest the point-well, we have no such custom, nor have the Churches of God.

Verse ConceptsDivisions, Contrary ToChurch Of GodWomen's Rolespractice

Have you no houses in which you can eat and drink? Or are you trying to show your contempt for the Church of God, and to humiliate the poor? What can I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this matter I cannot praise you.

Verse ConceptsSacrilegeLiving In HousesShaming PeopleEating And DrinkingNot Helping The PoorThe Church UniversalAlcoholic BeveragesChurch Of GodGoing To Churchcommunion

For I myself received from the Lord the account which I have in turn given to you-how the Lord Jesus, on the very night of his betrayal, took some bread,

Verse ConceptsFaith, As A Body Of BeliefsTraditionsLord's SupperBetrayal, Of ChristHanding Over ChristBreadNever Giving Up

Therefore, whoever eats the bread, or drinks the Lord's cup, in an irreverent spirit, will have to answer for an offence against the Lord's body and blood.

Verse ConceptsBlood, of Jesus ChristIncurring GuiltBreadBloodAbuseRespecting Your Bodycommunion

Yet, in being judged by the Lord, we are undergoing discipline, so that we may not have judgment passed upon us with the rest of the world.

Verse ConceptsCommitment, to the worlddiscipline, divineChastisementLast JudgmentNo Condemnation

Can every one be an Apostle? can every one be a Preacher? can every one be a Teacher? can every one have supernatural powers?

Verse ConceptsProphecy, In NtTeachersOther Miracles

Can every one have power to cure diseases? can every one speak in 'tongues'? can every one interpret them?

Verse ConceptsInterpreting LanguageHealing Through DisciplesFaith And HealingSpiritual GiftsGifts And Talents

Next, Brothers, I would remind you of the Good News which I told you, and which you received-the Good News on which you have taken your stand,

Verse ConceptsRemindersStandingAcceptance, Of The GospelThe Gospel Preached

After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of our Brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have gone to their rest.

Verse ConceptsLast ThingsSleep, And DeathResurrection Of Christ, AppearancesFour To Five HundredChrist AppearingFour And Five HundredWitnessesThe ResurrectionAppearances ofWitnessing

Yes, and we are being proved to have borne false testimony about God; for we testified of God that he raised the Christ, whom he did not raise, if, indeed, the dead do not rise!

Verse ConceptsAre The Dead Raised?Christ Would Risereality

For God has placed all things under Christ's feet. (But, when it is said that all things have been placed under Christ, it is plain that God is excepted who placed everything under him.)

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

If with only human hopes I had fought in the arena at Ephesus, what should I have gained by it? If the dead do not rise, then-'Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we shall die'!

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

Awake to a righteous life, and cease to sin. There are some who have no true knowledge of God. I speak in this way to shame you.

Verse ConceptsConversion, God's demands forSin, Avoidance OfWakefulnessRighteousnessIgnorance of GodMoving OnKnowing Godignoranceawakeningshunning

This I say, Brothers-Flesh and blood can have no share in the Kingdom of God, nor can the perishable share the imperishable.

Verse ConceptsKingdom Of God, Entry IntoExclusionTransient BodyLimitations Of The BodyNo DecayPeople Are Corruptiblecorruption

Listen, I will tell you God's hidden purpose! We shall not all have passed to our rest, but we shall all be transformed-in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye,

Verse ConceptsMetaphysicsMysteryPeople TransformedNot DyingDeath Of The RighteousPeople Who Didn't DieDying

I will come to you as soon as I have been through Macedonia- -for I am going through Macedonia-

Verse ConceptsPeople Visiting

As for our Brother Apollos, I have often urged him to go to you with the others. He has, however, been very unwilling to do so as yet; but he will go as soon as he finds a good opportunity.

Verse ConceptsApollosRight Time For People

I have another request to make of you, Brothers. You remember Stephanas and his household, and that they were the first-fruits gathered in from Greece, and set themselves to serve Christ's People.

Verse ConceptsGiving, Of OneselfHousesMinistry, Qualifications ForServants, Working Conditions OfUnselfishnessMetaphorical FirstfruitsServing GroupsServiceFirst fruitsBeing Devoted to God

I am glad Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus have come, for they have made up for your absence;

Verse ConceptsPeople Providing

They have cheered my heart, and your hearts also. Recognize the worth of such men as these.

Verse ConceptsAppreciationHonour The HonourablePeople RefreshedAppreciation For Pastorsrecognition

And from so imminent a death God delivered us, and will deliver us again; for in him we have placed our hopes of future deliverance, while you, also, help us by your prayers.

Verse ConceptsAfflicted SaintsAccepting ChristDeliverance, Types OfHope, In GodRescueDeath Of A Family MemberDespairFamily DeathThe PastLoss Of A Loved Onerisk

And, indeed, you have already partly acknowledged it about us--that you have a right to be proud of us, as we shall be proud of you, on the Day of our Lord Jesus.

Verse ConceptsLast DaysLordship, Human And DivineBrotherly LoveThe Fact Of That DayPaul's Boasting

So I wrote as I did, for fear that, if I had come, I should have been pained by those who ought to have made me glad; for I felt sure that it was true of you all that my joy was in every case yours also.

Verse ConceptsJoy, Of The ChurchOptimism

When you forgive a man anything, I forgive him, too. Indeed, for my part, whatever I have forgiven (if I have had to forgive anything), I have forgiven for your sakes, in the presence of Christ,

Verse ConceptsAdulterersAdultery and DivorceThe Presence Of ChristPeople Forgiving OthersFor The Sake Of God's PeopleForgivenessforgiving othersForgiving Others Who Hurt YouGod's ForgivenessForgiveness Kjvforgiving

Will not the religion that confers the Spirit have still greater glory?

Verse ConceptsCovenant, the newGod, Unity Of

This treasure we have in these earthen vessels, that its all- prevailing power may be seen to come from God, and not to be our own.

Verse ConceptsClayPower Through GodGod, Power OfPower, HumanRiches, SpiritualTreasureSpiritual TreasuresNot MeExcellencegreatnesspot

Sure that, when we have put it on, we shall never be found discarnate.

Verse ConceptsNakednessClothed With Good ThingsNaked In Shame

We are not "commending ourselves" again to you, but rather are giving you cause for pride in us, so that you may have an answer ready for those who pride themselves on appearances and not on character.

Verse ConceptsCommendationOutward AppearanceHypocrites, Description OfAppearancesCommending OneselfOther References To The HeartAppearances of

Make room for us in your hearts. In no instance have we ever wronged, or harmed, or taken advantage of, any one.

Verse ConceptsIntegrityCoveting, prohibition ofDefraudingCheatingNo Room

I am not saying this to condemn you. Indeed, I have already said that you are in our very heart, to live and die together.

Verse ConceptsLiving TogetherNo Condemnationcondemnation