If they want to find out about something, they should ask their husbands at home, because it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in church.

Now if Christ is being preached as raised from the dead, how can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead?

Now, brothers and sisters, you know about the household of Stephanus, that as the first converts of Achaia, they devoted themselves to ministry for the saints. I urge you

And his affection for you is much greater when he remembers the obedience of you all, how you welcomed him with fear and trembling.

because the service of this ministry is not only providing for the needs of the saints but is also overflowing with many thanks to God.

As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be stopped in the regions of Achaia.

not that there really is another gospel, but there are some who are disturbing you and wanting to distort the gospel of Christ.

Now Hagar represents Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.

For he is our peace, the one who made both groups into one and who destroyed the middle wall of partition, the hostility,

and by not being intimidated in any way by your opponents. This is a sign of their destruction, but of your salvation – a sign which is from God.

Even though they have the appearance of wisdom with their self-imposed worship and false humility achieved by an unsparing treatment of the body – a wisdom with no true value – they in reality result in fleshly indulgence.

Therefore, if you have been raised with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.

So put to death whatever in your nature belongs to the earth: sexual immorality, impurity, shameful passion, evil desire, and greed which is idolatry.

in case I am delayed, to let you know how people ought to conduct themselves in the household of God, because it is the church of the living God, the support and bulwark of the truth.

In fact this is why we work hard and struggle, because we have set our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of believers.

But if someone does not provide for his own, especially his own family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

For the love of money is the root of all evils. Some people in reaching for it have strayed from the faith and stabbed themselves with many pains.

Because of this I remind you to rekindle God’s gift that you possess through the laying on of my hands.

Now in a wealthy home there are not only gold and silver vessels, but also ones made of wood and of clay, and some are for honorable use, but others for ignoble use.

Instead someone testified somewhere: “What is man that you think of him or the son of man that you care for him?