Lexicon :: Strong's G2076 - esti

For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but it is the power of God to us who are being saved.

because God’s foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s weakness is stronger than human strength.

But the person without the Spirit[fn] does not receive what comes from God’s Spirit, because it is foolishness to him; he is not able to understand it since it is evaluated[fn] spiritually.

What then is Apollos? What is Paul? They are servants through whom you believed, and each has the role the Lord has given.

So, then, neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.

For no one can lay any foundation other than what has been laid down. That foundation is Jesus Christ.

each one’s work will become obvious. For the day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire; the fire will test the quality of each one’s work.

If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, and that is what you are.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, since it is written, He catches the wise in their craftiness;

So let no one boast in human leaders, for everything is yours ​— ​

It is of little importance to me that I should be judged by you or by any human court.[fn] In fact, I don’t even judge myself.

This is why I have sent Timothy to you. He is my dearly loved and faithful child in the Lord. He will remind you about my ways in Christ Jesus, just as I teach everywhere in every church.

I say this to your shame! Can it be that there is not one wise person among you who is able to arbitrate between fellow believers?

As it is, to have legal disputes against one another is already a defeat for you. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?

Don’t you know that your bodies are a part of Christ’s body? So should I take a part of Christ’s body and make it part of a prostitute? Absolutely not!

I say to the unmarried[fn] and to widows: It is good for them if they remain as I am.

For the unbelieving husband is made holy by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy by the husband.[fn] Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is they are holy.

Circumcision does not matter and uncircumcision does not matter. Keeping God’s commands is what matters.

For he who is called by the Lord as a slave is the Lord’s freedman. Likewise he who is called as a free man is Christ’s slave.

This is what I mean, brothers and sisters: The time is limited, so from now on those who have wives should be as though they had none,

A wife is bound[fn] as long as her husband is living. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to anyone she wants ​— ​only in the Lord.

My defense to those who examine me is this:

For if I preach the gospel, I have no reason to boast, because I am compelled to preach[fn] ​— ​and woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!

What then is my reward? To preach the gospel and offer it free of charge and not make full use of my rights in the gospel.

The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a sharing in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a sharing in the body of Christ?

What am I saying then? That food sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

But if someone says to you, “This is food from a sacrifice,” do not eat it, out of consideration for the one who told you, and for the sake of conscience.[fn]

But I want you to know that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of the woman,[fn] and God is the head of Christ.

Every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, since that is one and the same as having her head shaved.

A man should not cover his head, because he is the image and glory of God. So too, woman is the glory of man.

Judge for yourselves: Is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered?

When you come together, then, it is not to eat the Lord’s Supper.

and when he had given thanks, broke it, and said,[fn] “This is my body, which is[fn] for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”

And there are different activities, but the same God works all of them in each person.

For just as the body is one and has many parts, and all the parts of that body, though many, are one body ​— ​so also is Christ.

Indeed, the body is not one part but many.