More from Bob Johnson on 1 Cor

46-ROM/01.usfm

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 \v 12 That is, I long to be mutually encouraged among you, through each other's faith, yours and mine.
 
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-\v 13 Now I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that I often intended to come to you, (but I was hindered until now), in order to have a harvest among you, just as I have had among the rest of the Gentiles.
+\v 13 Now I do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, that I often intended to come to you, (but I was hindered until now), in order to have a harvest among you, just as I have had among the rest of the Gentiles.
 \v 14 I am a debtor both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to the wise and to the foolish.
 \v 15 So, as for me, I am ready to proclaim the gospel also to you who are in Rome.
 

46-ROM/11.usfm

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-\v 25 For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of this mystery, in order that you will not be wise in your own thinking. This mystery is that a partial hardening has occurred in Israel, until the completion of the Gentiles come in.
+\v 25 For I do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, of this mystery, in order that you will not be wise in your own thinking. This mystery is that a partial hardening has occurred in Israel, until the completion of the Gentiles come in.
 
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 \v 26 Thus all Israel will be saved, just as it is written:

47-1CO/10.usfm

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-\v 1 I want you to know, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea.
+\v 1 I do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea.
 \v 2 All were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea,
 \v 3 and all ate the same spiritual food.
 \v 4 All drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from a spiritual rock that followed them, and that rock was Christ.

47-1CO/12.usfm

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 \v 1 About spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed.
-\v 2 You know that when you were pagans, you were led astray to voiceless idols, in whatever ways you were led by them.
+\v 2 You know that when you were pagans, you were led astray to idols who could not speak, in whatever ways you were led by them.
 \v 3 Therefore I want you to know that no one who speaks by the Spirit of God can say, "Jesus is accursed." No one can say, "Jesus is Lord," except by the Holy Spirit.
 
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 \v 9 To another is given faith by the same Spirit, and to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit.
 \v 10 To another is given deeds of power, and to another prophecy. To another is given the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, and to another the interpretation of tongues.
-\v 11 But the one and the same Spirit works in all of these, giving the gifts to each one individually, as he chooses.
+\v 11 All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, giving the gifts to each one individually, as he chooses.
 
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 \v 14 For the body is not a single member, but many.
 \v 15 If the foot says, "Since I am not the hand, I am not part of the body," it is not any less a part of the body.
-\v 16 And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I am not part of the body," it is not any less a part of the body.
+\v 16 And if the ear says, "Because I am not an eye, I am not part of the body," it is not any less a part of the body.
 \v 17 If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be?
 
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47-1CO/14.usfm

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 \v 11 But if I do not know the meaning of a language, I will be a foreigner to the speaker, and the speaker will be a foreigner to me.
 
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-\v 12 Likewise with you. Since you are eager for the manifestations of the Spirit, be zealous to abound in building up the church.
+\v 12 So it is with you. Since you are eager for the manifestations of the Spirit, try to excel in the gifts that build up the church.
 \v 13 So the one who speaks in a tongue should pray that he may interpret.
 \v 14 For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful.
 
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-\v 22 Therefore tongues are a sign, not to believers, but to unbelievers. But prophesying is for a sign, not for unbelievers, but for believers.
+\v 22 So then, tongues are a sign, not to believers, but to unbelievers. But prophesying is for a sign, not for unbelievers, but for believers.
 \v 23 If, therefore, the whole church comes together and all speak in tongues, and outsiders and unbelievers come in, would they not say that you are insane?
 
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47-1CO/15.usfm

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 \v 30 Why then, are we in danger every hour?
 
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-\v 31 Every day I face death! This is a sure as my boasting in you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.
+\v 31 Every day I face death! This is as sure as my boasting in you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.
 \v 32 What do I gain, from a human point of view, if I fought with beasts at Ephesus, if the dead are not raised? "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."
 
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 \v 56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
-\v 57 But thanks to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!
+\v 57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!
 
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 \v 58 Therefore, my dear brothers, be steadfast and immovable. Always abound in the work of the Lord, because you know that your work in the Lord is not in vain.

48-2CO/01.usfm

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 \v 7 Our confidence about you is certain, for we know that as you also share the sufferings, you also share the comfort.
 
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-\v 8 For we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, about the troubles we had in Asia. We were completely crushed beyond what we could bear, so much that we did not even hope to live any longer.
+\v 8 For we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about the troubles we had in Asia. We were completely crushed beyond what we could bear, so much that we did not even hope to live any longer.
 \v 9 Indeed, we had the sentence of death on us. But that was to make us not put our trust in ourselves, but instead in God, who raises the dead.
 \v 10 He rescued us from such a deadly peril, and he will rescue us again. We have set our confidence in him that he will deliver us yet again.
 

53-1TH/04.usfm

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-\v 13 We do not want you to misunderstand, brothers, about those who sleep, so that you do not grieve like the rest who do not have certainty about the future.
+\v 13 We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who sleep, so that you do not grieve like the rest who do not have certainty about the future.
 \v 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him.
 \v 15 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left at the coming of the Lord, will surely not precede those who have fallen asleep.