'God' in the Bible
Paul, called to be an Apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God--and our brother Sosthenes:
To the Church of God in Corinth, men and women consecrated in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all in every place who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ-- their Lord as well as ours.
May grace and peace be granted to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
I thank my God continually on your behalf for the grace of God bestowed on you in Christ Jesus--
so that there is no gift of God in which you consciously come short while patiently waiting for the reappearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,
God is ever true to His promises, and it was by Him that you were, one and all, called into fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ, our Lord.
I thank God that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius--
For the Message of the Cross is foolishness to those who are on the way to perdition, but it is the power of God to those whom He is saving.
Where is your wise man? Where your expounder of the Law? Where your investigator of the questions of this present age? Has not God shown the world's wisdom to be utter foolishness?
For after the world by its wisdom--as God in His wisdom had ordained--had failed to gain the knowledge of God, God was pleased, by the apparent foolishness of the Message which we preach, to save those who accepted it.
but to those who have received the Call, whether Jews or Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
Because that which the world deems foolish in God is wiser than men's wisdom, and that which it deems feeble in God is mightier than men's might.
But God has chosen the things which the world regards as foolish, in order to put its wise men to shame; and God has chosen the things which the world regards as destitute of influence, in order to put its powerful things to shame;
and the things which the world regards as base, and those which it sets utterly at nought--things that have no existence--God has chosen in order to reduce to nothing things that do exist;
to prevent any mortal man from boasting in the presence of God.
But you--and it is all God's doing--are in Christ Jesus: He has become for us a wisdom which is from God, consisting of righteousness and sanctification and deliverance;
And as for myself, brethren, when I came to you, it was not with surpassing power of eloquence or earthly wisdom that I came, announcing to you that which God had commanded me to bear witness to.
so that your trust might rest not on the wisdom of man but on the power of God.
But in dealing with truths hitherto kept secret we speak of God's wisdom--that hidden wisdom which, before the world began, God pre-destined, so that it should result in glory to us;
But--to use the words of Scripture--we speak of things which eye has not seen nor ear heard, and which have never entered the heart of man: all that God has in readiness for them that love Him.
For us, however, God has drawn aside the veil through the teaching of the Spirit; for the Spirit searches everything, including the depths of the divine nature.
But we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which comes forth from God, that we may know the blessings that have been so freely given to us by God.
The unspiritual man rejects the things of the Spirit of God, and cannot attain to the knowledge of them, because they are spiritually judged.
I planted and Apollos watered; but it was God who was, all the time, giving the increase.
So that neither the planter nor the waterer is of any importance. God who gives the increase is all in all.
Apollos and I are simply fellow workers for and with God, and you are *God's* field-- *God's* building.
In discharge of the task which God graciously entrusted to me, I--like a competent master-builder--have laid a foundation, and others are building upon it. But let every one be careful how and what he builds.
Do you not know that you are God's Sanctuary, and that the Spirit of God has His home within you?
If any one is marring the Sanctuary of God, him will God mar; for the Sanctuary of God is holy, which you all are.
and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.
Therefore form no premature judgements, but wait until the Lord returns. He will both bring to light the secrets of darkness and will openly disclose the motives that have been in people's hearts; and then the praise which each man deserves will come to him from God.
Every one of you already has all that heart can desire; already you have grown rich; without waiting for us, you have ascended your thrones! Yes indeed, would to God that you had ascended your thrones, that we also might reign with you!
God, it seems to me, has exhibited us Apostles last of all, as men condemned to death; for we have come to be a spectacle to all creation--alike to angels and to men.
And all this describes what some of you were. But now you have had every stain washed off: now you have been set apart as holy: now you have been pronounced free from guilt; in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and through the Spirit of our God.
Food of all kinds is meant for the stomach, and the stomach is meant for food, and God will cause both of them to perish. Yet the body does not exist for the purpose of fornication, but for the Master's service, and the Master exists for the body;
and as God by His power raised the Master to life, so He will also raise us up.
Or do you not know that a man who has to do with a prostitute is one with her in body? For God says, "The two shall become one."
Or do you not know that your bodies are a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is within you--the Spirit whom you have from God?
And you are not your own, for you have been redeemed at infinite cost. Therefore glorify God in your bodies.
Yet I would that everybody lived as I do; but each of us has his own special gift from God--one in one direction and one in another.
If, however, the unbeliever is determined to leave, let him or her do so. Under such circumstances the Christian man or woman is no slave; God has called us to live lives of peace.
Only, whatever be the condition in life which the Lord has assigned to each individual--and whatever the condition in which he was living when God called him--in that let him continue.
Were you a slave when God called you? Let not that weigh on your mind. And yet if you can get your freedom, take advantage of the opportunity.
Where each one stood when he was called, there, brethren, let him still stand--close to God.
But in my judgement, her state is a more enviable one if she remains as she is; and I also think that I have the Spirit of God.
but if any one loves God, that man is known by God.
As to eating things which have been sacrificed to idols, we are fully aware that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but One.
yet *we* have but one God, the Father, who is the source of all things and for whose service we exist, and but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom we and all things exist.
Is God simply thinking about the oxen? Or is it really in our interest that He speaks? Of course, it was written in our interest, because it is His will that when a plough-man ploughs, and a thresher threshes, it should be in the hope of sharing that which comes as the result.
to men without Law as if I were without Law--although I am not without Law in relation to God but am abiding in Christ's Law--in order to win those who are without Law.
But with most of them God was not well pleased; for they were laid low in the Desert.
No temptation has you in its power but such as is common to human nature; and God is faithful and will not allow you to be tempted beyond your strength. But, when the temptation comes, He will also provide the way of escape; so that you may be able to bear it.
No, but that which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, not to God; and I would not have you have fellowship with one another through the demons.
Whether, then, you are eating or drinking, or whatever you are doing, let everything be done to the glory of God.
Do not be causes of stumbling either to Jews or to Gentiles, nor to the Church of God.
I would have you know, however, that of every man, Christ is the Head, that of a woman her husband is the Head, and that God is Christ's Head.
For a man ought not to have a veil on his head, since he is the image and glory of God; while woman is the glory of man.
For just as woman originates from man, so also man comes into existence through woman, but everything springs originally from God.
Judge of this for your own selves: is it seemly for a woman to pray to God when she is unveiled?
But if any one is inclined to be contentious on the point, we have no such custom, nor have the Churches of God.
Why, have you no homes in which to eat and drink? Or do you wish to show your contempt for the Church of God and make those who have no homes feel ashamed? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this matter I certainly do not praise you.
For this reason I would have you understand that no one speaking under the influence of The Spirit of God ever says, "Jesus is accursed," and that no one is able to say, "Jesus is Lord," except under the influence of the Holy Spirit.
diversities in work, and yet one and the same God--He who in each person brings about the whole result.
But, as a matter of fact, God has arranged the parts in the body--every one of them--as He has seen fit.
But it was God who built up the body, and bestowed more abundant honor on the part that felt the need,
For he who speaks in an unknown tongue is not speaking to men, but to God; for no one understands him. Yet in the Spirit he is speaking secret truths.
How then does the matter stand? I will pray in spirit, and I will pray with my understanding also. I will praise God in spirit, and I will praise Him with my understanding also.
Otherwise, if you bless God in spirit only, how shall he who is in the position of an ungifted man say the 'Amen' to your giving of thanks, when he does not know what your words mean?
I speak in a tongue, thank God, more than all of you;
and the hidden evils of his heart are brought to light. And, as the result, he will fall on his face and worship God, and will report to others that of a truth God is among you.
or if there is no interpreter, let the man with the gift be silent in the Church, speaking to himself and to God.
For God is not a God of disorder, but of peace, as He is in all the Churches of His people.
For I am the least of the Apostles, and am not fit to be called an Apostle--because I persecuted the Church of God.
But what I am I am by the grace of God, and His grace bestowed upon me did not prove ineffectual. But I labored more strenuously than all the rest--yet it was not I, but God's grace working with me.
Nay more, we are actually being discovered to be bearing false witness about God, because we have testified that God raised Christ to life, whom He did not raise, if in reality none of the dead are raised.
Later on, comes the End, when He is to surrender the Kingship to God, the Father, when He shall have overthrown all other government and all other authority and power.
But when the whole universe has been made subject to Him, then the Son Himself will also become subject to Him who has made the universe subject to Him, in order that GOD may be all in all.
Wake from this drunken fit; live righteous lives, and cease to sin; for some have no knowledge of God: I speak thus in order to move you to shame.
But this I tell you, brethren: our mortal bodies cannot inherit the Kingdom of God, nor will what is perishable inherit what is imperishable.
but God be thanked who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!
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