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1 Corinthians 6

Lawsuits Discouraged

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Does any one of you, when he has a  1case against his neighbor, dare to go to law before the unrighteous and  anot before the  2saints?

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Or  ado you not know that  bthe  1saints will judge  cthe world? If the world is judged by you, are you not competent to  2constitute the smallest law courts?

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 aDo you not know that we will judge angels? How much more matters of this life?

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So if you have law courts dealing with matters of this life,  1do you appoint them as judges who are of no account in the church?

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 aI say this to your shame. Is it so, that there is not among you one wise man who will be able to decide between his  bbrethren,

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but brother goes to law with brother, and that before  aunbelievers?

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Actually, then, it is already a defeat for you, that you have lawsuits with one another.  aWhy not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

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On the contrary, you yourselves wrong and defraud. You do this even to your  abrethren.

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Or  ado you not know that the unrighteous will not  binherit the kingdom of God?  cDo not be deceived;  dneither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor  1effeminate, nor homosexuals,

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nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will  ainherit the kingdom of God.

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 aSuch were some of you; but you were  bwashed, but you were  csanctified, but you were  djustified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

The Body Is the Lord's

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 aAll things are lawful for me, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be mastered by anything.

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 aFood is for the  1stomach and the  1stomach is for food, but God will  bdo away with both  2of them. Yet the body is not for immorality, but  cfor the Lord, and  dthe Lord is for the body.

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Now God has not only  araised the Lord, but  bwill also raise us up through His power.

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 aDo you not know that  byour bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take away the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute?  cMay it never be!

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Or  ado you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For He says, " bTHE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH."

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But the one who joins himself to the Lord is  aone spirit with Him.

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 aFlee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the  1immoral man sins against his own body.

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Or  ado you not know that  byour body is a  1temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from  2God, and that  cyou are not your own?

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For  ayou have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in  byour body.



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