New Testament · Letters
1 Corinthians chapter 6
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When one of you has a dispute with another, how dare you take it before instead of letting settle it?Don’t you realize that God’s people will ? And if you’re going to judge the world, can’t you handle these trivial cases?Don’t you know that we will judge ? How much more should we be able to handle everyday matters!So if you have disputes about everyday matters, why are you bringing them before people who have no standing in ?I’m saying this to you. Is there really no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between fellow believers?Instead, one believer takes another to court — and in front of , no less!The fact that you have lawsuits at all against each other is already a for you. Why not just accept the wrong? Why not just let yourselves be cheated?Instead, you yourselves are doing wrong and cheating — and you’re doing it to your own !Don’t you realize that people who practice injustice will not inherit ? Don’t fool yourselves: people who are , who , who , who , who ,who steal, who , who get drunk, who , who — none of these will inherit God’s kingdom.And that’s what some of you used to be. But you were , you were , you were through the name of the Lord Jesus, , and through .“” — sure, but not everything is . “I’m free to do anything” — but I won’t let anything control me.“” — and God will do away with both of them. But the body is not for — it’s for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.God the Lord from the dead, and by his power he will raise us too.Don’t you know that your bodies are himself? Should I take the parts of The One and join them to a ? Absolutely not!Don’t you realize that when a man joins himself to a prostitute, he becomes one body with her? As it says, “The two will become .”But anyone who is joined to the Lord becomes with him. from sexual corruption. Every other failure that a person commits is outside the body, but the person who is sexually corrupt .Don’t you know that your body is a where lives — the Breath you received from God? You don’t belong to yourselves.You were . So with your body.