1 Corinthians

1 Corinthians 6 ©

1 The Corinthians are reproved for bringing their controversies before heathen judges, which they ought to decide among themselves. 7 There would be no occasion for lawsuits, if men acted up to the principles of the gospel, 9 which exclude from the kingdom of God all notorious transgressors of the moral law. 12 All lawful things are not expedient; 15 but fornication is a gross offence against our bodies, which are members of Christ, temples of the Holy Ghost, and not our own to dispose of otherwise than to God's glory.

1

DARE aany of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and bnot before the saints?

a Ne. 5.9. v.6.
b Mat. 18.17. ch. 5.12.
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Do ye not know that cthe saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

c Ps. 49.14. Da. 7.18,22. Mat. 19.28. Lu. 22.30. Jude 14,15. Re. 2.26; 5.10; 20.4.
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Know ye not that we shall djudge angels? how much more things ethat pertain to this life?

d 2Pe. 2.4. Jude 6. Re. 20.10.
e Lu. 21.34.
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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.

5

fI 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?

f ch. 4.14; 15.34.
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But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.

7

gNow 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?

g Pr. 20.22. Mat. 5.39,40. Lu. 6.29. Ro. 12.17,19. 1Th. 4.6; 5.13,15. 1Pe. 3.9.
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Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.

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hKnow ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? iBe not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor jabusers of themselves with mankind,

h ch. 5.11; 15.50. Ga. 5.19-21. Ep. 5.3-5. Col. 3.5,6. 1Th. 4.6. 1Ti. 1.9,10. He. 12.14,18; 13.4. Re. 21.8; 22.15. Is. 3.11. Mat. 23.33.
i ch. 15.33. Ga. 6.7.
j Le. 18.22.
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Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

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kAnd such were some of you: but ye lare washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified min the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

k ch. 12.2. Ro. 6.19; 7.5. Ep. 2.1-3,11,12; 5.8. Col. 3.7.
l ch. 1.30. He. 10.22; 2.11. 1Pe. 1.2,3. Tit. 3.5-7. Ro. 8.30. Ac. 22.16; 26.17,18. Is. 1.18.
m Jn. 20.31.
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nAll things are lawful unto me, but all things are not 1expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the opower of any.

n ch. 10.23. Col. 2.21.
o ch. 9.27.
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p*Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. qNow the body is not for fornication, but rfor the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

p Mat. 15.17,20. Ro. 14.17. Col. 2.22,23.
q 1Th. 4.3,7. Ro. 6.13,19; 7.4; 12.1. ch. 3.15,16; 6.19,20. 2Co. 11.2. Ep. 5.23.
r v.15,19,20.
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And sGod hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.

s Ac. 2.24. 1Th. 4.3. Ro. 6.5,8; 8.11,17. 2Co. 4.14. Ep. 1.19,20. Phi. 3.10,11.
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Know ye not that tyour bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.

t Ro. 12.5. ch. 11.3; 12.27. Ep. 1.22; 4.12,15,16; 5.23,30. Ge. 39.9. Mar. 10.8.
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What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for utwo, saith he, shall be one flesh.

u Ge. 2.24. Mat. 19.5. Ep. 5.31.
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vBut he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

v Jn. 3.6; 17.21-23. Ep. 4.4; 5.30,32. Phi. 2.5.
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wFlee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is *without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

w Pr. 6.25-32; 7.24-27. Ex. 20.14. 2Ti. 2.22. 1Pe. 2.11. Ro. 1.24-29. 1Th. 4.4. He. 13.4. Mat. 15.19. Ac. 15.20,29.
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What? xknow 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?

x Ro. 14.7,8. ch. 3.16. 2Co. 6.16. Ep. 2.21. He. 3.6. 1Pe. 2.5. Jn. 2.21.
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For yye are bought with a price: therefore zglorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

y ch. 7.23. Ac. 20.28. Ga. 3.13. He. 9.12,14. 1Pe. 1.18,19; 3.18. Re. 5.9. Tit. 2.14. 2Pe. 2.1.
z 1Pe. 2.9. Mat. 5.16. Ro. 6.19. 1Th. 4.3. 2Co. 7.1. ch. 3.16.