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Chapter 6 |
1 | Dare any of
you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not
before the saints? |
2 | Do ye not know that the saints shall judge
the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge
the smallest matters? |
3 | Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how
much more things that pertain to this life? |
4 | If then ye have judgments
of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in
the church. |
5
| I 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? |
6
| But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before
the unbelievers. |
7 | Now 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? |
8 | Nay, ye do
wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren. |
9 | Know ye not that the
unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither
fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of
themselves with mankind, |
10 | Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor
drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of
God. |
11 |
And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are
sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the
Spirit of our God. |
12 | All things are lawful unto me, but all
things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be
brought under the power of any. |
13 | Meats for the belly, and the
belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not
for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. |
14 | And
God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own
power. |
15
| Know ye 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. |
16 | What? know ye not that he which is joined to
an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. |
17 | But
he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. |
18 | Flee
fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that
committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. |
19 | What? know
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? |
20 | For ye are bought with a
price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are
God's. |