1 Corinthians 9:8

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

But I don’t permit a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority over a man, but to be in quietness.

To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. You will bear children in pain. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.

The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.

That which was a temptation to you in my flesh, you didn’t despise nor reject; but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

so is my word that goes out of my mouth: it will not return to me void, but it will accomplish that which I please, and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do.

Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me. Whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

Brothers, speaking of human terms, though it is only a man’s covenant, yet when it has been confirmed, no one makes it void or adds to it.

But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.

instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age;

For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard didn’t profit them, because it wasn’t mixed with faith by those who heard.

having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.

but the Lord’s word endures forever.” This is the word of Good News which was preached to you.

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.

For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

“Therefore night is over you, with no vision, and it is dark to you, that you may not divine; and the sun will go down on the prophets, and the day will be black over them.

“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.

See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed.

But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do.

but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered dishonors her head. For it is one and the same thing as if she were shaved.

I give a judgment in this: for this is expedient for you who were the first to start a year ago, not only to do, but also to be willing.

We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the morning star arises in your hearts:

The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.

For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

Wrap up the covenant. Seal the law among my disciples.

The wise men are disappointed. They are dismayed and trapped. Behold, they have rejected Yahweh’s word. What kind of wisdom is in them?

Moreover he said to me, “Son of man, receive in your heart and hear with your ears all my words that I speak to you.

But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.

But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen.”

making void the word of God by your tradition, which you have handed down. You do many things like this.”

But he answered them, “My mother and my brothers are these who hear the word of God, and do it.”

He said to him, “What is written in the law? How do you read it?”

But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”

The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.

“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.

Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.

Now when the apostles who were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them,

Therefore I sent to you at once, and it was good of you to come. Now therefore we are all here present in the sight of God to hear all things that have been commanded you by God.”

For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay no greater burden on you than these necessary things:

A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one who worshiped God, heard us. The Lord opened her heart to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul.

Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We want to hear you again concerning this.”

But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;

May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, “that you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment.”

What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.

But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting, unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”

that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers’ sake, my relatives according to the flesh

Brothers, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, that they may be saved.

Some of you were such, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband

In the law it is written, “By men of strange languages and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people. They won’t even hear me that way, says the Lord.”

if they desire to learn anything. “Let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is shameful for a wife to be talking in the assembly.”

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

I don’t reject the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!”

In him you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation—in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News

which has come to you, even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth,

when he comes in that day to be glorified in his saints and to be admired among all those who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed.

Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word,

that you should remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior:

As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

Turn to the law and to the covenant! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.

I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.

Or don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?

But she is happier if she stays as she is, in my judgment, and I think that I also have God’s Spirit.

Let the wives be quiet in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to be talking except in submission, as the law also says,

For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.

Therefore he who rejects this doesn’t reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.