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Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own, — read the full passage →

Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own,

who do not know the thing of the morrow; for what is your life? for it is a vapour that is appearing for a little, and then is vanishing;

Wherefore also God did give them up, in the desires of their hearts, to uncleanness, to dishonour their bodies among themselves;

have ye not known that ye are a sanctuary of God, and the Spirit of God doth dwell in you?

in like manner also the women, in becoming apparel, with modesty and sobriety to adorn themselves, not in braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or garments of great price,

and he hath upon the garment and upon his thigh the name written, `King of kings, and Lord of lords.'

Whether, then, ye eat, or drink, or do anything, do all to the glory of God;

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service;

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;

proving what is well-pleasing to the Lord,

All things to me are lawful, but all things are not profitable; all things to me are lawful, but all things do not build up;

and because of the abounding of the lawlessness, the love of the many shall become cold;

and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;

As to the rest, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord; the same things to write to you to me indeed is not tiresome, and for you <FI>is<Fi> sure; — read the full passage →

have ye not known that ye are a sanctuary of God, and the Spirit of God doth dwell in you? — read the full passage →

he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.

whose adorning--let it not be that which is outward, of plaiting of hair, and of putting around of things of gold, or of putting on of garments, — read the full passage →

flee the whoredom; every sin--whatever a man may commit--is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

fear is not in the love, but the perfect love doth cast out the fear, because the fear hath punishment, and he who is fearing hath not been made perfect in the love;

Jesus Christ yesterday and to-day the same, and to the ages;

and above all these things, <FI>have<Fi> love, which is a bond of the perfection,

let all your things be done in love.

it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body; there is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body;

In like manner, nevertheless, those dreaming also the flesh indeed do defile, and lordship they put away, and dignities they speak evil of,

as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance, — read the full passage →

and evil men and impostors shall advance to the worse, leading astray and being led astray. — read the full passage →

And we ask you, brethren, to know those labouring among you, and leading you in the Lord, and admonishing you, — read the full passage →

to your walking worthily of the Lord to all pleasing, in every good work being fruitful, and increasing to the knowledge of God, — read the full passage →

and they shall see His face, and His name <FI>is<Fi> upon their foreheads,

`This <FI>is<Fi> the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, giving My laws on their hearts, and upon their minds I will write them,'

For finding fault, He saith to them, `Lo, days come, saith the Lord, and I will complete with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah, a new covenant, — read the full passage →

look to the dogs, look to the evil-workers, look to the concision;

that he might present it to himself the assembly in glory, not having spot or wrinkle, or any of such things, but that it may be holy and unblemished; — read the full passage →

and to put on the new man, which, according to God, was created in righteousness and kindness of the truth.

and, being true in love, we may increase to Him <FI>in<Fi> all things, who is the head--the Christ; — read the full passage →

for the flesh doth desire contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit contrary to the flesh, and these are opposed one to another, that the things that ye may will--these ye may not do;

for all of us it behoveth to be manifested before the tribunal of the Christ, that each one may receive the things <FI>done<Fi> through the body, in reference to the things that he did, whether good or evil;

manifested that ye are a letter of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not in the tablets of stone, but in fleshy tablets of the heart, — read the full passage →

And this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood the reign of God is not able to inherit, nor doth the corruption inherit the incorruption;

So also <FI>is<Fi> the rising again of the dead: it is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption; — read the full passage →

Ye are not able the cup of the Lord to drink, and the cup of demons; ye are not able of the table of the Lord to partake, and of the table of demons;

but I chastise my body, and bring <FI>it<Fi> into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others--I myself may become disapproved.

but see, lest this privilege of yours may become a stumbling-block to the infirm,

for other foundation no one is able to lay except that which is laid, which is Jesus the Christ; — read the full passage →

and he who is making a difference, if he may eat, hath been condemned, because <FI>it is<Fi> not of faith; and all that <FI>is<Fi> not of faith is sin.

Right <FI>it is<Fi> not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to <FI>do anything<Fi> in which thy brother doth stumble, or is made to fall, or is weak.

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

So that, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of the Christ, for your becoming another's, who out of the dead was raised up, that we might bear fruit to God;

neither present ye your members instruments of unrighteousness to the sin, but present yourselves to God as living out of the dead, and your members instruments of righteousness to God;

because, having known God they did not glorify <FI>Him<Fi> as God, nor gave thanks, but were made vain in their reasonings, and their unintelligent heart was darkened, — read the full passage →

but to write to them to abstain from the pollutions of the idols, and the whoredom, and the strangled thing; and the blood; — read the full passage →

and I will ask the Father, and another Comforter He will give to you, that he may remain with you--to the age; — read the full passage →

judge not according to appearance, but the righteous judgment judge.'

`For who of you, willing to build a tower, doth not first, having sat down, count the expence, whether he have the things for completing?

there came to him a woman having an alabaster box of ointment, very precious, and she poured on his head as he is reclining (at meat). — read the full passage →

From their fruits ye shall know them; do <FI>men<Fi> gather from thorns grapes? or from thistles figs? — read the full passage →

`Do not suppose that I came to throw down the law or the prophets--I did not come to throw down, but to fulfil;

And having seen the multitudes, he went up to the mount, and he having sat down, his disciples came to him, — read the full passage →