- The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
- But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
- Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.
- Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong.
- Do everything in love.
- God is faithful, who has called you into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
- I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another in what you say and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly united in mind and thought.
- 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.
- God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him.
- For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
- However, as it is written:
“What no eye has seen,
what no ear has heard,
and what no human mind has conceived”—
the things God has prepared for those who love him. - These are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.
- For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
- For we are co-workers in God’s service; you are God’s field, God’s building.
- Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst?
- If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is sacred, and you together are that temple.
- Do not deceive yourselves. If any of you think you are wise by the standards of this age, you should become “fools” so that you may become wise.
- Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
- “I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but I will not be mastered by anything.
- Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body.
- Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.
Bible verse of the day
Wisdom’s instruction is to fear the Lord,and humility comes before honor.