If they desire to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home; for it is improper for a woman to speak in church.
If anyone thinks he is a prophet or spiritual, let him recognize that the things which I write to you are the Lord’s commandment.
For since by a man came death, by a man also came the resurrection of the dead.
and that which you sow, you do not sow the body which is to be, but a bare grain, perhaps of wheat or of something else.
But God gives it a body just as He wished, and to each of the seeds a body of its own.
So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown a perishable body, it is raised an imperishable body;
it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
So also it is written, “The first MAN, Adam, BECAME A LIVING SOUL.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,
in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
for a wide door for effective service has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.
All the brethren greet you. Greet one another with a holy kiss.
who delivered us from so great a peril of death, and will deliver us, He on whom we have set our hope. And He will yet deliver us,
In this confidence I intended at first to come to you, so that you might twice receive a blessing;
who also sealed us and gave us the Spirit in our hearts as a pledge.
Sufficient for such a one is this punishment which was inflicted by the majority,
so that on the contrary you should rather forgive and comfort him, otherwise such a one might be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.
Now when I came to Troas for the gospel of Christ and when a door was opened for me in the Lord,
For we are a fragrance of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing;
being manifested that you are a letter of Christ, cared for by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
who also made us adequate as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
Therefore having such a hope, we use great boldness in our speech,
and are not like Moses, who used to put a veil over his face so that the sons of Israel would not look intently at the end of what was fading away.
But to this day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their heart;
but whenever a person turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.
For we know that if the earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
Now He who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave to us the Spirit as a pledge.
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.
Now in a like exchange--I speak as to children--open wide to us also.
Or what harmony has Christ with Belial, or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever?
“And I will be a father to you, And you shall be sons and daughters to Me,” Says the Lord Almighty.
For though I caused you sorrow by my letter, I do not regret it; though I did regret it--for I see that that letter caused you sorrow, though only for a while--
For the sorrow that is according to the will of God produces a repentance without regret, leading to salvation, but the sorrow of the world produces death.
that in a great ordeal of affliction their abundance of joy and their deep poverty overflowed in the wealth of their liberality.
So we urged Titus that as he had previously made a beginning, so he would also complete in you this gracious work as well.
I am not speaking this as a command, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity of your love also.
I give my opinion in this matter, for this is to your advantage, who were the first to begin a year ago not only to do this, but also to desire to do it.
For if the readiness is present, it is acceptable according to what a person has, not according to what he does not have.
at this present time your abundance being a supply for their need, so that their abundance also may become a supply for your need, that there may be equality;
As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker among you; as for our brethren, they are messengers of the churches, a glory to Christ.
So I thought it necessary to urge the brethren that they would go on ahead to you and arrange beforehand your previously promised bountiful gift, so that the same would be ready as a bountiful gift and not affected by covetousness.
Each one must do just as he has purposed in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
Let such a person consider this, that what we are in word by letters when absent, such persons we are also in deed when present.
But we will not boast beyond our measure, but within the measure of the sphere which God apportioned to us as a measure, to reach even as far as you.
I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness; but indeed you are bearing with me.
For I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy; for I betrothed you to one husband, so that to Christ I might present you as a pure virgin.
For if one comes and preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted, you bear this beautifully.
Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself so that you might be exalted, because I preached the gospel of God to you without charge?
and when I was present with you and was in need, I was not a burden to anyone; for when the brethren came from Macedonia they fully supplied my need, and in everything I kept myself from being a burden to you, and will continue to do so.
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