1 Corinthians 6
6
Suing Fellow Believers
1Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to the law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? 2Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? # Da 7:22; Mt 19:28 If the world will be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters? 3Do you not know that we shall judge angels? How much more the things that pertain to this life? 4If then you have judgments dealing with matters of this life, do you appoint as judges those who are least esteemed in the church? # 1Co 5:12 5I speak to your shame. # 1Co 4:14; 15:34 Is it true that there is not even one wise man among you who shall be able to judge between his brothers? 6But brother goes to the law against brother, and before unbelievers, at that.
7Now therefore it is already an utter failure for you that you go to law against one another. # Pr 20:22; 1Pe 3:9 Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded? 8But you yourselves do wrong and defraud, and do this to your brothers. # 1Th 4:6 9Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? # 1Co 15:50 Do not be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, # 1Ti 1:9–10 # 6:9 The first term is for a catamite or submissive homosexual and the second for a pederast or dominant homosexual. 10nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners # 1Co 5:11 will inherit the kingdom of God. 11Such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, and you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus by the Spirit of our God. # Ac 22:16; Ro 8:30; 1Co 1:2
Glorifying God in Your Body
12“All things are lawful to me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be brought under the power of anything. 13“Food is for the belly, and the belly is for food,” # Mt 15:17 but God will destroy both of them. Now the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body. # 1Co 6:15 14God has raised up the Lord and will also raise us up by His own power. # Ac 2:24; Eph 1:19–20 15Do you not know that your bodies are the parts of Christ? # Ro 12:5; 1Co 12:27 Shall I then take the parts of Christ and make them the parts of a harlot? God forbid! 16What? Do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For “the two,” He says, “shall become one flesh.” # Ge 2:24; Eph 5:31 # 6:16 Ge 2:24. 17But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with Him. # Jn 17:21–23
18Escape from sexual immorality. # 2Co 12:21; 1Th 4:3; Heb 13:4 Every sin that a man commits is outside the body. But he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. 19What? Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, # Jn 2:21; 1Co 3:16 who is in you, whom you have received from God, and that you are not your own? 20You were bought with a price. # Ac 20:28; 1Co 7:23 Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s. # Ro 12:1
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1 Corinthians 6
6
Settling Disagreements between Christians
1When one of you has a complaint against another, how dare you go to court to settle the matter in front of wicked people. Why don’t you settle it in front of God’s holy people? 2Don’t you know that God’s people will judge the world? So if you’re going to judge the world, aren’t you capable of judging insignificant cases? 3Don’t you know that we will judge angels, not to mention things in this life? 4When you have cases dealing with this life, why do you allow people whom the church has a low opinion of to be your judges? 5You should be ashamed of yourselves! Don’t you have at least one wise person who is able to settle disagreements between believers? 6Instead, one believer goes to court against another believer, and this happens in front of unbelievers.
7You are already totally defeated because you have lawsuits against each other. Why don’t you accept the fact that you have been wronged? Why don’t you accept that you have been cheated? 8Instead, you do wrong and cheat, and you do this to other believers.
9Don’t you know that wicked people won’t inherit God’s kingdom? Stop deceiving yourselves! People who continue to commit sexual sins, who worship false gods, those who commit adultery, homosexuals, 10or thieves, those who are greedy or drunk, who use abusive language, or who rob people will not inherit God’s kingdom. 11That’s what some of you were! But you have been washed and made holy, and you have received God’s approval in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.
Stay Away from Sexual Sins
12Someone may say, “I’m allowed to do anything,” but not everything is helpful. I’m allowed to do anything, but I won’t allow anything to gain control over my life. 13Food is for the stomach, and the stomach is for food, but God will put an end to both of them. However, the body is not for sexual sin but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body. 14God brought the Lord back to life, and by his power God will also bring us back to life.
15Don’t you realize that your bodies are parts of Christ’s body? Should I take the parts of Christ’s body and make them parts of a prostitute’s body? That’s unthinkable! 16Don’t you realize that the person who unites himself with a prostitute becomes one body with her? God says, “The two will be one.” 17However, the person who unites himself with the Lord becomes one spirit with him.
18Stay away from sexual sins. Other sins that people commit don’t affect their bodies the same way sexual sins do. People who sin sexually sin against their own bodies. 19Don’t you know that your body is a temple that belongs to the Holy Spirit? The Holy Spirit, whom you received from God, lives in you. You don’t belong to yourselves. 20You were bought for a price. So bring glory to God in the way you use your body.
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