1 Corinthians 6
6
Lawsuits among Believers
1If any of you has a dispute against another, how dare you take it to court#Mt 18:15–17 before the unrighteous,#6:1 Unbelievers; v. 6 and not before the saints? 2Or don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the trivial cases? 3Don’t you know that we will judge angels — how much more matters of this life? 4So if you have such matters, do you appoint as your judges those who have no standing#Lk 18:9 in the church? 5I say this to your shame!#1Co 4:14 Can it be that there is not one wise person among you who is able to arbitrate between fellow believers?#Ac 9:30 6Instead, brother goes to court against brother, and that before unbelievers!#Lk 12:46
7As it is, to have legal disputes against one another is already a defeat for you.#Rm 11:12 Why not rather be wronged?#Rv 2:11 Why not rather be cheated?#Mk 10:19 8Instead, you yourselves do wrong and cheat — and you do this to brothers and sisters! 9Don’t you know that the unrighteous#Lk 16:10 will not inherit God’s kingdom?#Mk 1:15; Ac 20:25 Do not be deceived: No sexually immoral people, idolaters,#Eph 5:5 adulterers,#Lk 18:11 or males who have sex with males,#6:9 Both passive and active participants in homosexual acts#Gn 19:5 10no thieves,#Jn 10:1 greedy#Eph 5:5 people, drunkards, verbally abusive people,#1Co 5:11 or swindlers#Lk 18:11 will inherit God’s kingdom. 11And some of you used to be like this.#Eph 2:2–3; 4:22; 5:8; Ti 3:3 But you were washed, you were sanctified,#Lk 11:2 you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
Glorifying God in Body and Spirit
12“Everything is permissible#Jn 18:31 for me,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible for me,” but I will not be mastered by anything. 13“Food#1Tm 6:8 is for the stomach and the stomach for food,” and God will do away with both of them. However, the body is not for sexual immorality#1Th 4:3 but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14God raised up the Lord and will also raise us up by his power.#Mk 5:30; Lk 1:35; 6:19; Ac 19:11; 2Co 13:4; Rv 11:17 15Don’t you know that your bodies are a part of Christ’s body?#Rm 12:5; 1Co 12:27; Eph 5:30 So should I take a part of Christ’s body and make it part of a prostitute? Absolutely not! 16Don’t you know that anyone joined to a prostitute is one body with her? For Scripture says, The two will become one flesh.#6:16Gn 2:24#Gn 2:24 17But anyone joined#Jn 11:52 to the Lord is one spirit#Ps 51:12 with him.
18Flee#Jms 4:7 sexual immorality! Every other sin#6:18 Lit Every sin a person commits is outside the body, but the person who is sexually immoral#1Co 10:8 sins against his own body. 19Don’t you know that your body is a temple#Lk 1:21 of the Holy Spirit#Rm 8:9,23; 1Co 7:40; 2Co 4:13; Jd 19 who is in you,#Jms 4:5; 1Jn 4:4 whom you have from God? You are not your own, 20for you were bought#2Pt 2:1 at a price. So glorify God with your body.#6:20 Other mss add and in your spirit, which belong to God.
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1 Corinthians 6
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1Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? 2Don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters? 3Don’t you know that we will judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life? 4If then you have to judge things pertaining to this life, do you set them to judge who are of no account in the assembly? 5I say this to move you to shame. Isn’t there even one wise man among you who would be able to decide between his brothers? 6But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers! 7Therefore it is already altogether a defect in you that you have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded? 8No, but you yourselves do wrong and defraud, and that against your brothers.
9Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, 10nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom. 11Some of you were such, but you were washed. You were sanctified. You were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.
12“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are expedient. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be brought under the power of anything. 13“Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14Now God raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his power. 15Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be! 16Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two”, he says, “will become one flesh.”#Genesis 2:24 17But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit. 18Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. 19Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, 20for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.
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