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The First Epistle of Saint Paul to the Corinthians
Chapter 6
He blames them for going to law before unbelievers. Of sins that exclude from the kingdom of heaven. The evil of fornication.
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Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to be judged before the unjust: and not before the saints? |
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Know you not that the saints shall judge this world? And if the world shall be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters? |
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Know you not that we shall judge angels? How much more things of this world? |
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If therefore you have judgments of things pertaining to this world, set them to judge who are the most despised in the church. |
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I speak to your shame. Is it so that there is not among you any one wise man that is able to judge between his brethren? |
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But brother goeth to law with brother: and that before unbelievers. |
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Already indeed there is plainly a fault among you, that you have law suits one with another. Why do you not rather take wrong? Why do you not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded? |
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But you do wrong and defraud: and that to your brethren. |
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Know you not that the unjust shall not possess the kingdom of God? Do not err: Neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers: |
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Nor the effeminate nor liers with mankind nor thieves nor covetous nor drunkards nor railers nor extortioners shall possess the kingdom of God. |
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And such some of you were. But you are washed: but you are sanctified: but you are justified: in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and the Spirit of our God. |
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All things are lawful to me: but all things are not expedient. All things are lawful to me: but I will not be brought under the power of any. |
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Meat for the belly and the belly for the meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord: and the Lord for the body. |
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Now God hath raised up the Lord and will raise us up also by his power. |
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Know you 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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Or know you not that he who is joined to a harlot is made one body? For they shall be, saith he, two in one flesh. |
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But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit. |
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Fly fornication. Every sin that a man doth is without the body: but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. |
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Or know you not that your members are the temple of the Holy Ghost, who is in you, whom you have from God: and you are not your own? |
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For you are bought with a great price. Glorify and bear God in your body. |