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1 Corinthians · read by John Piper
129 verses, in order. Only the verses John read aloud are shown.
1 Corinthians 1
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For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.Read from NASB1995 · The Wisdom of Men and the Power of God
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For it is written: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate."Read from NASB1995 · The Wisdom of Men and the Power of God
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Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?Read from NASB1995 · The Wisdom of Men and the Power of God
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but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.Read from ESV · The Wisdom of Men and the Power of God
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Therefore, as it is written: "Let him who boasts boast in the Lord."Read from NASB1995 · The Key to Simultaneous Sorrow and Joy
1 Corinthians 2
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When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eloquence or wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.Read from ESV · How Gospel Centered Preaching Can Go Wrong
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For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.Read from ESV · The Wisdom of Men and the Power of God
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so that your faith would not rest on men's wisdom, but on God's power.Read from NKJV · The Wisdom of Men and the Power of God
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No, we speak of the mysterious and hidden wisdom of God, which He destined for our glory before time began.Read from ESV · How to Get Wisdom Become a Fool
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We have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us.Read from ESV · Basics for Reading the Bible
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And this is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom, but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.Read from ESV · Basics for Reading the Bible
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The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.Read from ESV · Basics for Reading the Bible
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The spiritual man judges all things, but he himself is not subject to anyone's judgment.Read from ESV · That Which Is Born of the Spirit Is Spirit
1 Corinthians 3
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He who plants and he who waters are one in purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor.Read from ESV · The Heart of God in the Call to Proclaim
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If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw,Read from ESV · The Heart of God in the Call to Proclaim
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Let no one deceive himself. If any of you thinks he is wise in this age, he should become a fool, so that he may become wise.Read from ESV · How to Get Wisdom Become a Fool
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Therefore, stop boasting in men. All things are yours,Read from ESV · Gospel Centered History and Gospel Centered Living
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whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future. All of them belong to you,Read from NKJV · The Cost of Love in the Call to the Nations
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and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.Read from ESV · How to Get Wisdom Become a Fool
1 Corinthians 4
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So then, men ought to regard us as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.Read from ESV · Battling the Unbelief of Haughty Spirit
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Now it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.Read from ESV · Battling the Unbelief of Haughty Spirit
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I care very little, however, if I am judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself.Read from ESV · Battling the Unbelief of Haughty Spirit
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My conscience is clear, but that does not vindicate me. It is the Lord who judges me.Read from ESV · Battling the Unbelief of Haughty Spirit
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Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of men's hearts. At that time each will receive his praise from God.Read from ESV · God is the Gospel - Part 2
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Brothers, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, so that you may learn from us not to go beyond what is written. Then you will not take pride in one man over another.Read from ESV · Battling the Unbelief of Haughty Spirit
1 Corinthians 5
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hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord.Read from NKJV · Biblical Eldership - Lesson 2
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What business of mine is it to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside?Read from ESV · Elijah’s Battle with the Prophets of Baal
1 Corinthians 6
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Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,Read from ESV · Don't Be a Sucker
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nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.Read from ESV · Don't Be a Sucker
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But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with Him in spirit.Read from ESV · A Belief That Prevents Abortion
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you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.Read from ESV · Joy and Rejoicing Under Persecution by the State
1 Corinthians 7
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Now to the unmarried and widows I say this: It is good for them to remain unmarried, as I am.Read from ESV · Single in Christ a Name Better Than Sons and Daughters
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But if they cannot control themselves, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.Read from NKJV · Sex and the Single Person
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Brothers, each one should remain in the situation he was in when God called him.Read from ESV · Making Much of Christ from 8 to 5
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Because of the present crisis, I think it is good for a man to remain as he is.Read from ESV · Marriage Is Meant for Making Children Disciples of Jesus, Part 1
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those who weep, as if they did not; those who are joyful, as if they were not; those who make a purchase, as if they had nothing;Read from NASB1995 · Rejoicing in the Midst of Sorrow
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I want you to be free from concern. The unmarried man is concerned about the work of the Lord, how he can please the Lord.Read from ESV · Single in Christ a Name Better Than Sons and Daughters
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But the married man is concerned about the affairs of this world, how he can please his wife,Read from ESV · Single in Christ a Name Better Than Sons and Daughters
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A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes, as long as he belongs to the Lord.Read from ESV · Sex and the Single Person
1 Corinthians 8
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Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.Read from ESV · The Life of the Mind and the Love of God
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yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we exist. And there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we exist.Read from ESV · How to Welcome a Weak Brother
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But not everyone has this knowledge. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that they eat such food as if it were sacrificed to an idol. And since their conscience is weak, it is defiled.Read from ESV · How to Welcome a Weak Brother
1 Corinthians 9
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Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you yourselves not my workmanship in the Lord?Read from ESV · The Missionary Miracle： Christ’s Call to Cross a Culture
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Even if I am not an apostle to others, surely I am to you. For you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.Read from ESV · The Missionary Miracle： Christ’s Call to Cross a Culture
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This is my defense to those who scrutinize me:Read from ESV · The Missionary Miracle： Christ’s Call to Cross a Culture
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Have we no right to food and to drink?Read from ESV · The Missionary Miracle： Christ’s Call to Cross a Culture
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Have we no right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the Lord's brothers and Cephas?Read from ESV · The Missionary Miracle： Christ’s Call to Cross a Culture
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Or are Barnabas and I the only apostles who must work for a living?Read from ESV · The Missionary Miracle： Christ’s Call to Cross a Culture
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Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Who tends a flock and does not drink of its milk?Read from ESV · The Missionary Miracle： Christ’s Call to Cross a Culture
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Do I say this from a human perspective? Doesn't the Law say the same thing?Read from ESV · The Missionary Miracle： Christ’s Call to Cross a Culture
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For it is written in the Law of Moses: "Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain." Is it about oxen that God is concerned?Read from ESV · The Missionary Miracle： Christ’s Call to Cross a Culture
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Isn't He actually speaking on our behalf? Indeed, this was written for us, because when the plowman plows and the thresher threshes, they should also expect to share in the harvest.Read from ESV · The Missionary Miracle： Christ’s Call to Cross a Culture
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If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much for us to reap a material harvest from you?Read from ESV · The Missionary Miracle： Christ’s Call to Cross a Culture
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Do you not know that those who work in the temple eat of its food, and those who serve at the altar partake of its offerings?Read from ESV · The Missionary Miracle： Christ’s Call to Cross a Culture
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In the same way, the Lord has prescribed that those who preach the gospel should receive their living from the gospel.Read from ESV · The Missionary Miracle： Christ’s Call to Cross a Culture
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But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing this to suggest that something be done for me. Indeed, I would rather die than let anyone nullify my boast.Read from ESV · The Missionary Miracle： Christ’s Call to Cross a Culture
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If my preaching is voluntary, I have a reward. But if it is not voluntary, I am still entrusted with a responsibility.Read from ESV · The Missionary Miracle： Christ’s Call to Cross a Culture
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What then is my reward? That in preaching the gospel I may offer it free of charge, and so not use up my rights in preaching it.Read from ESV · The Missionary Miracle： Christ’s Call to Cross a Culture
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To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law), to win those under the law.Read from ESV · The Missionary Miracle： Christ’s Call to Cross a Culture
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To those without the law I became like one without the law (though I am not outside the law of God but am under the law of Christ), to win those without the law.Read from ESV · The Missionary Miracle： Christ’s Call to Cross a Culture
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To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some.Read from ESV · The Missionary Miracle： Christ’s Call to Cross a Culture
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I do all this for the sake of the gospel, so that I may share in its blessings.Read from ESV · The Missionary Miracle： Christ’s Call to Cross a Culture
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Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way as to take the prize.Read from ESV · The Missionary Miracle： Christ’s Call to Cross a Culture
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Everyone who competes in the games trains with strict discipline. They do it for a crown that is perishable, but we do it for a crown that is imperishable.Read from ESV · The Missionary Miracle： Christ’s Call to Cross a Culture
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Therefore I do not run aimlessly; I do not fight like I am beating the air.Read from ESV · The Missionary Miracle： Christ’s Call to Cross a Culture
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No, I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.Read from ESV · The Missionary Miracle： Christ’s Call to Cross a Culture
1 Corinthians 10
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Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness.Read from ESV · Our Only Hope In The Wilderness
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So the one who thinks he is standing firm should be careful not to fall.Read from NKJV · Our Only Hope In The Wilderness
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Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience,Read from ESV · How to Welcome a Weak Brother
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So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God.Read from ESV · The Supremacy of God in the Use of Your Mind
1 Corinthians 11
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For anyone who eats and drinks without recognizing the body eats and drinks judgment on himself.Read from NASB1995 · Suffering for the Sake of the Body - Lesson 1
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That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep.Read from NASB1995 · Suffering for the Sake of the Body - Lesson 1
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Now if we judged ourselves properly, we would not come under judgment.Read from NASB1995 · Suffering for the Sake of the Body - Lesson 1
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But when we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be condemned with the world.Read from NASB1995 · Suffering for the Sake of the Body - Lesson 1
1 Corinthians 12
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There are different gifts, but the same Spirit.Read from ESV · For Our People and for the Cities of God
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Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good.Read from ESV · Doing the Works of Jesus and Greater Works
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to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit,Read from ESV · Doing the Works of Jesus and Greater Works
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The body is a unit, though it is composed of many parts. And although its parts are many, they all form one body. So it is with Christ.Read from ESV · Be Filled With the Spirit
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The eye cannot say to the hand, "I do not need you." Nor can the head say to the feet, "I do not need you."Read from ESV · Biblical Eldership - Lesson 1
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On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable,Read from ESV · Biblical Eldership - Lesson 1
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If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.Read from NASB1995 · Bless Those Who Persecute You
1 Corinthians 13
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If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal.Read from ESV · If My Words Abide in You
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If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.Read from ESV · If My Words Abide in You
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Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.Read from ESV · Love Is a Fulfilling of the Law, Part One
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It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.Read from ESV · Love Is a Fulfilling of the Law, Part One
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Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.Read from ESV · Love Is a Fulfilling of the Law, Part One
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It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.Read from ESV · Love Is a Fulfilling of the Law, Part One
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Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.Read from NASB1995 · Thoughts on Christian Education
1 Corinthians 14
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I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you.Read from NASB1995 · (Biographies) D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
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Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.Read from ESV · The Life of the Mind and the Love of God
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If anyone considers himself a prophet or spiritual person, let him acknowledge that what I am writing you is the Lord's command.Read from NASB1995 · Biblical Eldership - Lesson 1
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But if anyone ignores this, he himself will be ignored.Read from ESV · Biblical Eldership - Lesson 1
1 Corinthians 15
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Now, brothers, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, and in which you stand firm.Read from ESV · God is the Gospel - Part 3
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For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,Read from ESV · Jesus Is Precious Because His Biblical Portrait Is True, Part 1
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that He was buried, that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,Read from ESV · Jesus Is Precious Because His Biblical Portrait Is True, Part 1
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After that, He appeared to more than five hundred brothers at once, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep.Read from ESV · Jesus Is Precious Because His Biblical Portrait Is True, Part 1
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Then He appeared to James, then to all the apostles.Read from ESV · Jesus Is Precious Because His Biblical Portrait Is True, Part 1
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And last of all He appeared to me also, as to one of untimely birth.Read from ESV · Jesus Is Precious Because His Biblical Portrait Is True, Part 1
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For I am the least of the apostles and am unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.Read from ESV · Jesus Is Precious Because His Biblical Portrait Is True, Part 1
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But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace to me was not in vain. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.Read from ESV · Jesus Is Precious Because His Biblical Portrait Is True, Part 1
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Whether, then, it was I or they, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed.Read from ESV · Jesus Is Precious Because His Biblical Portrait Is True, Part 1
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But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?Read from NASB1995 · Pity Not Them Who Rise With Christ
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If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised.Read from NASB1995 · Pity Not Them Who Rise With Christ
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And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is worthless, and so is your faith.Read from ESV · Radical Effects of the Resurrection
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In that case, we are also exposed as false witnesses about God. For we have testified about God that He raised Christ from the dead, but He did not raise Him if in fact the dead are not raised.Read from NASB1995 · Pity Not Them Who Rise With Christ
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For if the dead are not raised, then not even Christ has been raised.Read from ESV · Pity Not Them Who Rise With Christ
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And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins.Read from NASB1995 · Pity Not Them Who Rise With Christ
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Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.Read from ESV · Pity Not Them Who Rise With Christ
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If our hope in Christ is for this life alone, we are to be pitied more than all men.Read from NASB1995 · Pity Not Them Who Rise With Christ
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But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.Read from NASB1995 · Pity Not Them Who Rise With Christ
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The last enemy to be destroyed is death.Read from ESV · Suffering for the Sake of the Body - Lesson 4
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If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus for human motives, what did I gain? If the dead are not raised, "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."Read from ESV · Don't Be a Sucker
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But someone will ask, "How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?"Read from ESV · The Triumph of the Gospel in the New Heavens and the New Earth (Video)
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And what you sow is not the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or something else.Read from ESV · The Triumph of the Gospel in the New Heavens and the New Earth
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But God gives it a body as He has designed, and to each kind of seed He gives its own body.Read from ESV · The Triumph of the Gospel in the New Heavens and the New Earth (Video)
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It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power.Read from ESV · The Triumph of the Gospel in the New Heavens and the New Earth (Video)
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The first man was of the dust of the earth, the second man from heaven.Read from ESV · The Father Has Given All Things into Jesus’s Hands
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As was the earthly man, so also are those who are of the earth; and as is the heavenly man, so also are those who are of heaven.Read from ESV · The Father Has Given All Things into Jesus’s Hands
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And just as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so also shall we bear the likeness of the heavenly man.Read from ESV · The Father Has Given All Things into Jesus’s Hands
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Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—Read from ESV · How God's Word Produces Our Work
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For the perishable must be clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.Read from ESV · How God's Word Produces Our Work
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The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.Read from ESV · Suffering for the Sake of the Body - Lesson 3
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But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!Read from ESV · Suffering for the Sake of the Body - Lesson 3
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Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast and immovable. Always excel in the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.Read from ESV · How God's Word Produces Our Work
1 Corinthians 16
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On the first day of every week, each of you should set aside a portion of his income, saving it up, so that when I come no collections will be needed.Read from ESV · Is There a 'Lord's Day'?