Pursue love, yet desire earnestly spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy. 1 Corinthians 14:1 Why should we desire spiritual gifts? Because when I love people using spiritual gifts, people are built up in their faith, healed, made...
If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 1 Corinthians 14:1 The Beatles sang a song “Love, Love, Love,… love is all we need”. The Bible says that what...
But in giving this instruction, I do not praise you, because you come together not for the better but for the worse. 1 Corinthians 11:17 Yesterday (Sunday), was an amazing day of worship, prayer, fellowship, communion, responses to the invitation...
All things are lawful, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful, but not all things edify. Let no one seek his own good, but that of his neighbor. 1 Corinthians 10:23-24 Following Christ changes the order of who is important and who...
I am not speaking these things according to human judgment, am I? Or does not the Law also say these things? For it is written in the Law of Moses, “YOU SHALL NOT MUZZLE THE OX WHILE HE IS THRESHING.” God is not concerned about oxen, is He? 1...
Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that there is no such thing as an idol in the world, and that there is no God but one. I Corinthians 8:5 Paul’s comments to the Corinthians church remind that love is more...
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. 1 Corinthians 6:12-13 There is liberty and freedom in Christ. If I am controlled by the Spirit of God, is there...
Therefore let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. 1 Corinthians 5:8 The Bible says while we are to live with a generous amount of grace for...
For I am conscious of nothing against myself, yet I am not by this acquitted; but the one who examines me is the Lord. I Corinthians 4:4 Shakespeare said “be true to thyself, and it follows, you can be false to no other”. The Bible says...
Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If any man destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him, for the temple of God is holy, and that is what you are. I Corinthians 3:16 I can accept rather...
For WHO HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD, THAT HE WILL INSTRUCT HIM? But we have the mind of Christ. 1 Corinthians 2:16 In the movie, Defending Your Life, those who have already “moved on past earth”, jokingly refer to those who are still...
For consider your calling, brethren, that there were not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble; but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to...
Now I urge you, brethren, keep your eye on those who cause dissensions and hindrances contrary to the teaching which you learned, and turn away from them. Romans 16:17 The Bible warns about people in the church who cause dissensions and slow down...
For if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual things, they are indebted to minister to them also in material things. Romans 15:27b The Apostle Paul wanted to bring a financial gift to the Christians in Jerusalem and he invited the believers in...
Who are you to judge the servant of another? To his own master he stands or falls; and he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand. Romans 14:4 In matters of opinion, we are to avoid judging each other and actually defer to the weaker...
Owe nothing to anyone except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. Romans 13:8 What is it that God expects of me when it comes to other people? To pay a debt of love, nothing more, nothing less. And interestinlgy...
Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. Romans 12:1 The Bible says that we worship God not only in our mind or...
Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways! Romans 11:33 God’s plan of salvation included the Jews and Gentile believers. And what a plan it is. Deep...
For Moses writes that the man who practices the righteousness which is based on law shall live by that righteousness. But the righteousness based on faith speaks as follows: “DO NOT SAY IN YOUR HEART, ‘WHO WILL ASCEND INTO HEAVEN?’ (that is, to...
What shall we say then? That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, attained righteousness, even the righteousness which is by faith; but Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, did not arrive at that law. Why? Because they did not pursue it...
But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other...
But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter. Romans 7:6 The Christian life is far more and quite different that following a list...
Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Romans 6:11 The Bible says that I should pretend, reckon, or consider myself to be dead to sin. This means I live without the draw toward sin. Instead I live in a way...
Yet, with respect to the promise of God, he did not waver in unbelief but grew strong in faith, giving glory to God, and being fully assured that what God had promised, He was able also to perform. Romans 4:20-21 Abraham was told he would father a...
Do we then nullify the Law through faith? May it never be! On the contrary, we establish the Law. Romans 3:21 As a Christian, I have been saved by faith in Jesus Christ, not keeping the rules of the law. In doing so, I actually affirm the goodness...