Bible Studies

Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to decide between one believer and another, but a believer goes to court against a believer – and before unbelievers at that? (vs. 5b-6)

“Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you were bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body.” (vv. 19-20)

“However that may be, let each of you lead the life that the Lord has assigned, to which God called you.” (v. 17)

“I think that, in view of the impending crisis, it is well for you to remain as you are … For the present form of this world is passing away.” (vv. 26, 31)

“The present form of the world is passing away” (v. 31)

For the present form of this world is passing away. (v. 31b)

I mean, brothers and sisters, the appointed time has grown short; (v. 29a)

“But take care that this liberty of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak.” (v. 9)

"If others see you, who possess knowledge, eating in the temple of an idol, might they not, since their conscience is weak, be encouraged to the point of eating food sacrificed to idols? So by your knowledge those weak believers for whom Christ died are destroyed. But when you thus sin against members of your family, and wound their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ. Therefore, if food is a cause of their falling, I will never eat meat, so that I may not cause one of them to fall." (v.10-13)

Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. (v. 1b)

‘Food will not bring us close to God.’ We are no worse off if we do not eat, and no better off if we do. (v. 8)

Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. Anyone who claims to know something does not yet have the necessary knowledge; but anyone who loves God is known by him. (v. 2)