1Corinthians:4-7
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Let a man so account of us ,
as of the ministers of Christ ,
and stewards of the mysteries of God .
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Moreover it is required in stewards ,
that a man be found faithful .
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But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you ,
or of man '
s judgment :
yea ,
I judge not mine own self .
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For I know nothing by myself ;
yet am I not hereby justified :
but he that judgeth me is the Lord .
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Therefore judge nothing before the time ,
until the Lord come ,
who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness ,
and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts :
and then shall every man have praise of God .
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And these things ,
brethren ,
I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes ;
that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written ,
that no one of you be puffed up for one against another .
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For who maketh thee to differ from another ?
and what hast thou that thou didst not receive ?
now if thou didst receive it ,
why dost thou glory ,
as if thou hadst not received it ?
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Now ye are full ,
now ye are rich ,
ye have reigned as kings without us :
and I would to God ye did reign ,
that we also might reign with you .
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For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last ,
as it were appointed to death :
for we are made a spectacle unto the world ,
and to angels ,
and to men .
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We are fools for Christ '
s sake ,
but ye are wise in Christ ;
we are weak ,
but ye are strong ;
ye are honourable ,
but we are despised .
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Even unto this present hour we both hunger ,
and thirst ,
and are naked ,
and are buffeted ,
and have no certain dwellingplace ;
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And labour ,
working with our own hands :
being reviled ,
we bless ;
being persecuted ,
we suffer it :
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Being defamed ,
we intreat :
we are made as the filth of the world ,
and are the offscouring of all things unto this day .
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I write not these things to shame you ,
but as my beloved sons I warn you .
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For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ ,
yet have ye not many fathers :
for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel .
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Wherefore I beseech you ,
be ye followers of me .
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For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus ,
who is my beloved son ,
and faithful in the Lord ,
who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ ,
as I teach every where in every church .
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Now some are puffed up ,
as though I would not come to you .
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But I will come to you shortly ,
if the Lord will ,
and will know ,
not the speech of them which are puffed up ,
but the power .
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For the kingdom of God is not in word ,
but in power .
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What will ye ?
shall I come unto you with a rod ,
or in love ,
and in the spirit of meekness ?
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It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you ,
and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles ,
that one should have his father '
s wife .
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And ye are puffed up ,
and have not rather mourned ,
that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you .
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For I verily ,
as absent in body ,
but present in spirit ,
have judged already ,
as though I were present ,
concerning him that hath so done this deed ,
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In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ ,
when ye are gathered together ,
and my spirit ,
with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ ,
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To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh ,
that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus .
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Your glorying is not good .
Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump ?
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Purge out therefore the old leaven ,
that ye may be a new lump ,
as ye are unleavened .
For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us :
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Therefore let us keep the feast ,
not with old leaven ,
neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness ;
but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth .
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I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators :
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Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world ,
or with the covetous ,
or extortioners ,
or with idolaters ;
for then must ye needs go out of the world .
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But now I have written unto you not to keep company ,
if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator ,
or covetous ,
or an idolater ,
or a railer ,
or a drunkard ,
or an extortioner ;
with such an one no not to eat .
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For what have I to do to judge them also that are without ?
do not ye judge them that are within ?
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But them that are without God judgeth .
Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person .
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Dare any of you ,
having a matter against another ,
go to law before the unjust ,
and not before the saints ?
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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 ?
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Know ye not that we shall judge angels ?
how much more things that pertain to this life ?
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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 .
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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 ?
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But brother goeth to law with brother ,
and that before the unbelievers .
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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 ?
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Nay ,
ye do wrong ,
and defraud ,
and that your brethren .
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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 ,
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Nor thieves ,
nor covetous ,
nor drunkards ,
nor revilers ,
nor extortioners ,
shall inherit the kingdom of God .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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And God hath both raised up the Lord ,
and will also raise up us by his own power .
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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 .
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What ?
know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body ?
for two ,
saith he ,
shall be one flesh .
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But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit .
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Flee fornication .
Every sin that a man doeth is without the body ;
but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body .
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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 ?
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For ye are bought with a price :
therefore glorify God in your body ,
and in your spirit ,
which are God '
s .
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Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me :
It is good for a man not to touch a woman .
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Nevertheless ,
to avoid fornication ,
let every man have his own wife ,
and let every woman have her own husband .
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Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence :
and likewise also the wife unto the husband .
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The wife hath not power of her own body ,
but the husband :
and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body ,
but the wife .
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Defraud ye not one the other ,
except it be with consent for a time ,
that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer ;
and come together again ,
that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency .
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But I speak this by permission ,
and not of commandment .
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For I would that all men were even as I myself .
But every man hath his proper gift of God ,
one after this manner ,
and another after that .
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I say therefore to the unmarried and widows ,
It is good for them if they abide even as I .
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But if they cannot contain ,
let them marry :
for it is better to marry than to burn .
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And unto the married I command ,
yet not I ,
but the Lord ,
Let not the wife depart from her husband :
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But and if she depart ,
let her remain unmarried ,
or be reconciled to her husband :
and let not the husband put away his wife .
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But to the rest speak I ,
not the Lord :
If any brother hath a wife that believeth not ,
and she be pleased to dwell with him ,
let him not put her away .
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And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not ,
and if he be pleased to dwell with her ,
let her not leave him .
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For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife ,
and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband :
else were your children unclean ;
but now are they holy .
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But if the unbelieving depart ,
let him depart .
A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases :
but God hath called us to peace .
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For what knowest thou ,
O wife ,
whether thou shalt save thy husband ?
or how knowest thou ,
O man ,
whether thou shalt save thy wife ?
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But as God hath distributed to every man ,
as the Lord hath called every one ,
so let him walk .
And so ordain I in all churches .
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Is any man called being circumcised ?
let him not become uncircumcised .
Is any called in uncircumcision ?
let him not be circumcised .
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Circumcision is nothing ,
and uncircumcision is nothing ,
but the keeping of the commandments of God .
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Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called .
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Art thou called being a servant ?
care not for it :
but if thou mayest be made free ,
use it rather .
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For he that is called in the Lord ,
being a servant ,
is the Lord '
s freeman :
likewise also he that is called ,
being free ,
is Christ '
s servant .
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Ye are bought with a price ;
be not ye the servants of men .
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Brethren ,
let every man ,
wherein he is called ,
therein abide with God .
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Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord :
yet I give my judgment ,
as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful .
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I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress ,
I say ,
that it is good for a man so to be .
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Art thou bound unto a wife ?
seek not to be loosed .
Art thou loosed from a wife ?
seek not a wife .
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But and if thou marry ,
thou hast not sinned ;
and if a virgin marry ,
she hath not sinned .
Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh :
but I spare you .
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But this I say ,
brethren ,
the time is short :
it remaineth ,
that both they that have wives be as though they had none ;
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And they that weep ,
as though they wept not ;
and they that rejoice ,
as though they rejoiced not ;
and they that buy ,
as though they possessed not ;
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And they that use this world ,
as not abusing it :
for the fashion of this world passeth away .
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But I would have you without carefulness .
He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord ,
how he may please the Lord :
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But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world ,
how he may please his wife .
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There is difference also between a wife and a virgin .
The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord ,
that she may be holy both in body and in spirit :
but she that is married careth for the things of the world ,
how she may please her husband .
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And this I speak for your own profit ;
not that I may cast a snare upon you ,
but for that which is comely ,
and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction .
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But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin ,
if she pass the flower of her age ,
and need so require ,
let him do what he will ,
he sinneth not :
let them marry .
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Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart ,
having no necessity ,
but hath power over his own will ,
and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin ,
doeth well .
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So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well ;
but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better .
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The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth ;
but if her husband be dead ,
she is at liberty to be married to whom she will ;
only in the Lord .
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But she is happier if she so abide ,
after my judgment :
and I think also that I have the Spirit of God .
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Now as touching things offered unto idols ,
we know that we all have knowledge .
Knowledge puffeth up ,
but charity edifieth .
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