who will also keep you stedfast to the very End, so that you will be free from reproach on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

The Message of the Cross is indeed mere folly to those who are in the path to Ruin, but to us who are in the path of Salvation it is the very power of God.

For 'who has so comprehended the mind of the Lord as to be able to instruct him?' We, however, have the very mind of Christ.

if a man's work is burnt up, he will be a loser ??and though he will be saved himself, he will be snatched from the very flames.

But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self.

For it seems to me that God means us apostles to come in at the very end, like the doomed gladiators in the arena! We are made a spectacle to the world, to angels and to men!

We are [regarded as] fools for Christ, but you are so wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are highly esteemed, but we are dishonored.

To this very moment we endure both hunger and thirst, with scanty clothing and many a blow.

We meet slander with gentle appeals. We have been treated as the scum of the earth, the vilest of the vile, to this very hour.

For this reason I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, and he will remind you of my way of life in Christ [my conduct and my precepts for godly living], just as I teach everywhere in every church.

But I am coming very soon to see you, if the Lord is willing, and then I will find out, not what these conceited people have to say, but what they can actually do.

Your levity is very indecent: don't you know that a little leaven infects the whole mass?

Or know ye not that the sanctified will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy of very small legal disputes?

Do you not know that we [believers] will judge angels? How much more then [as to] matters of this life?

So if you have the ordinary cases of life for settlement, do you set up as judges the very men in the church who have no standing?

Why, the very fact that you have lawsuits with one another is already a defeat. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

Don't you know, that your bodies are parts of Christ's mystical body? now, how can that which is Christ's, be made the property of a very creature?

Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is within you, whom you have [received as a gift] from God, and that you are not your own [property]?

Brothers, each one must continue close to God in the very station in which he was called.

But I say this, believers: the time has been shortened, so that from now on even those who have wives should be as though they did not;

If to other men I am not an Apostle, yet at any rate I am one to you; for your very existence as a Christian Church is the seal of my Apostleship.

Human arguments, you say? But does not Scripture urge the very same?

What are my wages then? The very fact that the Good News which I preach will cost my hearers nothing, so that I cannot be charged with abuse of my privileges as a Christian preacher.

Every woman that prayeth or prophesieth bare-headed, dishonesteth her head. For it is even all one and the very same thing, even as though she were shaven.

[And] does not the very nature of things teach you that it is disgraceful for a man to have long hair? [Note: The prevailing, worldwide custom, observable to Paul even in his day, was shorter hair on men and longer hair on women. The fact of exceptions to this arrangement only proves the rule. See Num. 6:5; I Sam. 1:11].

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,

Quite the contrary. We cannot do without those very members of the body which are considered rather delicate,

and as for those parts of the body which we consider less honorable, these we treat with greater honor; and our less presentable parts are treated with greater modesty,

Love is very patient, very kind. Love knows no jealousy; love makes no parade, gives itself no airs,

Very well then, I will pray in the Spirit, but I will also pray with my mind; I will sing praise in the Spirit, but I will also sing praise with my mind.

For you may very well be giving thanks, but the other person is not being built up.

the secrets of his heart are laid bare. And so, falling on his face, he will worship God, declaring that God is really among you.

Very well then, brothers; when you meet together, each contributes something ??a song of praise, a lesson, a revelation, a 'tongue,' an interpretation? Good, but let every thing be for edification.

through which also you are obtaining salvation, if you bear in mind the words in which I proclaimed it--unless indeed your faith has been unreal from the very first.

For at the very beginning of my teaching I gave you the account which I had myself received-that Christ died for our sins (as the Scriptures had foretold),

For I am the very least of the apostles, unfit to bear the name of apostle, since I persecuted the church of God.

interpretations given to this very difficult verse. Other possibilities are: a) "immersed in view of (being raised from) the dead," b) "immersed in view of being dead (to sin)," c) "immersed in view of (having to suffer) death," d) "immersed in view of (someday joining) the dead"].

By the very pride I take in you, brothers, through our union with Christ Jesus our Lord, I face death every day.

You foolish man, the very seed you sow never comes to life without dying first;

And as to what thou sowest, thou sowest not the very body that shall be produced, but a bare grain, it may be, of wheat, or any other corn:

I shall now tell you a very great secret: we shall not all of us sleep, but we shall all be changed,

for I have a very fair and promising opportunity given me of propagating the gospel, tho' there are many opposers.

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.