| 6 | 1 Corinthians | ||
| 1 | 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 | |
| 2 | 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? | ||
| 3 | Are you not aware that we are to judge angels? How much more, mere matters of business! | ||
| 4 | If therefore you have such business disputes, how can you entrust jurisdiction to outsiders, men who count | ||
| 5 | 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? | ||
| 6 | Must brother go to law with brother-and before unbelievers? | ||
| 7 | 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? | ||
| 8 | So far from this, you actually injure and rob-injure and rob your brothers! | ||
| 9 | 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, | ||
| 10 | no thieves or grabbers or drunkards or slanderers or swindlers, will possess the kingdom of God. | ||
| 11 | 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. | ||
| 12 | '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 | |
| 13 | '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. | ||
| 14 | God not only raised our Lord from the dead; he will also raise us by his power. | ||
| 15 | 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! | ||
| 16 | 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 | |
| 17 | but he who links himself with Christ is one with him, spiritually. | ||
| 18 | Shun fornication. Every other sin that a man can commit is outside the body; but the fornicator sins against his own body. | ||
| 19 | 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; | ||
| 20 | you were bought at a price. Then honour God in your body. | ||
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