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| 6 | 1 Corinthians |
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IF ONE OF YOUR NUMBER has a dispute with another, has he the face to take it to pagan law-courts instead of to the community of God's people? | Going to Law before Unbelievers 1Cor.6.1-11 |
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It is God's people who are to judge the world; surely you know that. And if the world is to come before you for judgement, are you incompetent to deal with these trifling cases? | |
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Are you not aware that we are to judge angels? How much more, mere matters of business! | |
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If therefore you have such business disputes, how can you entrust jurisdiction to outsiders, men who count | |
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for nothing in our community? I write this to shame you. Can it be that there is not a single wise man among you able to give a decision in a brother-Christian's cause? | |
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Must brother go to law with brother-and before unbelievers? | |
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Indeed, you already fall below your standard in going to law with one another at all. Why not rather suffer injury? Why not rather let yourself be robbed? | |
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So far from this, you actually injure and rob-injure and rob your brothers! | |
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Surely you know that the unjust will never come into possession of the kingdom of God. Make no mistake: no fornicator or idolater, none who are guilty either of adultery or of homosexual perversion, | |
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no thieves or grabbers or drunkards or slanderers or swindlers, will possess the kingdom of God. | |
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Such were some of you. But you have been through the purifying waters; you have been dedicated to God and justified through the name of the Lord Jesus and the Spirit of our God. | |
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'I am free to do anything', you say. Yes, but not everything is for my good. No doubt I am free to do anything, but I for one will not let anything make free with me. | Glorify God in Your Body 1Cor.6.12-20 |
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'Food is for the belly and the belly for food', you say. True; and one day God will put an end to both. But it is not true that the body is for lust; it is for the Lord—and the Lord for the body. | |
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God not only raised our Lord from the dead; he will also raise us by his power. | |
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Do you not know that your bodies are limbs and organs of Christ? Shall I then take from Christ his bodily parts and make them over to a harlot? Never! | |
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You surely know that anyone who links himself with a harlot becomes physically one with her (for Scripture says, 'The pair shall become one flesh'); | - The two shall become one flesh 1Cor.6.16 - Gn.2.24 |
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but he who links himself with Christ is one with him, spiritually. | |
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Shun fornication. Every other sin that a man can commit is outside the body; but the fornicator sins against his own body. | |
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Do you not know that your body is a shrine of the indwelling Holy Spirit, and the Spirit is God's gift to you? You do not belong to yourselves; | |
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you were bought at a price. Then honour God in your body.
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