1 Corinthians 6
20 verses
Paul reproves the Corinthians for taking disputes to secular courts instead of settling them among themselves, asking why they do not rather let themselves be wronged, defrauded, or suffer loss. He catalogs the unrighteous who will not inherit the kingdom of God: the sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, thieves, the greedy, drunkards, swindlers—and such were some of you, but you were washed, sanctified, and justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God. All things are lawful, but not all things are helpful; all things are lawful, but not all things build up. Food for the stomach and the stomach for food, but God will do away with both; the body is for the Lord and the Lord for the body. Paul forbids fleeing sexual immorality: while every sin is outside the body, the one who practices sexual immorality sins against his own body, violating the intimate union that constitutes becoming one flesh. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God, and that you are not your own, bought with a price? Therefore glorify God in your body.
VERSES IN THIS CHAPTER
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Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?
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Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
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Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?
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If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.
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I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?
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But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.
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Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?
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Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.
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Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
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Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
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And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
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All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
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Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
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And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.
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Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.
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What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
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But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
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Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
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What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
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For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.
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