1Corinthians:5-9

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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 . * And ye are puffed up , and have not rather mourned , that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you . * 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 , * In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ , when ye are gathered together , and my spirit , with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ , * 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 . * Your glorying is not good . Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump ? * 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 : * 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 . * I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators : * 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 . * 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 . * For what have I to do to judge them also that are without ? do not ye judge them that are within ? * But them that are without God judgeth . Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person . * Dare any of you , having a matter against another , go to law before the unjust , and not before the saints ? * 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 ? * Know ye not that we shall judge angels ? how much more things that pertain to this life ? * If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life , set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church . * 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 ? * But brother goeth to law with brother , and that before the unbelievers . * 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 ? * Nay , ye do wrong , and defraud , and that your brethren . * 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 , * Nor thieves , nor covetous , nor drunkards , nor revilers , nor extortioners , shall inherit the kingdom of God . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * And God hath both raised up the Lord , and will also raise up us by his own power . * 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 . * What ? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body ? for two , saith he , shall be one flesh . * But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit . * Flee fornication . Every sin that a man doeth is without the body ; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body . * 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 ? * For ye are bought with a price : therefore glorify God in your body , and in your spirit , which are God 's . * Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me : It is good for a man not to touch a woman . * Nevertheless , to avoid fornication , let every man have his own wife , and let every woman have her own husband . * Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence : and likewise also the wife unto the husband . * 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 . * 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 . * But I speak this by permission , and not of commandment . * 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 . * I say therefore to the unmarried and widows , It is good for them if they abide even as I . * But if they cannot contain , let them marry : for it is better to marry than to burn . * And unto the married I command , yet not I , but the Lord , Let not the wife depart from her husband : * But and if she depart , let her remain unmarried , or be reconciled to her husband : and let not the husband put away his wife . * 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 . * And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not , and if he be pleased to dwell with her , let her not leave him . * 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 . * 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 . * For what knowest thou , O wife , whether thou shalt save thy husband ? or how knowest thou , O man , whether thou shalt save thy wife ? * 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 . * Is any man called being circumcised ? let him not become uncircumcised . Is any called in uncircumcision ? let him not be circumcised . * Circumcision is nothing , and uncircumcision is nothing , but the keeping of the commandments of God . * Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called . * Art thou called being a servant ? care not for it : but if thou mayest be made free , use it rather . * 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 . * Ye are bought with a price ; be not ye the servants of men . * Brethren , let every man , wherein he is called , therein abide with God . * 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 . * I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress , I say , that it is good for a man so to be . * Art thou bound unto a wife ? seek not to be loosed . Art thou loosed from a wife ? seek not a wife . * 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 . * But this I say , brethren , the time is short : it remaineth , that both they that have wives be as though they had none ; * 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 ; * And they that use this world , as not abusing it : for the fashion of this world passeth away . * 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 : * But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world , how he may please his wife . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well ; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better . * 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 . * But she is happier if she so abide , after my judgment : and I think also that I have the Spirit of God . * Now as touching things offered unto idols , we know that we all have knowledge . Knowledge puffeth up , but charity edifieth . * And if any man think that he knoweth any thing , he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know . * But if any man love God , the same is known of him . * As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols , we know that an idol is nothing in the world , and that there is none other God but one . * For though there be that are called gods , whether in heaven or in earth , (as there be gods many , and lords many ,) * But to us there is but one God , the Father , of whom are all things , and we in him ; and one Lord Jesus Christ , by whom are all things , and we by him . * Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge : for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol ; and their conscience being weak is defiled . * But meat commendeth us not to God : for neither , if we eat , are we the better ; neither , if we eat not , are we the worse . * But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak . * For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol 's temple , shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols ; * And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish , for whom Christ died ? * But when ye sin so against the brethren , and wound their weak conscience , ye sin against Christ . * Wherefore , if meat make my brother to offend , I will eat no flesh while the world standeth , lest I make my brother to offend . * Am I not an apostle ? am I not free ? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord ? are not ye my work in the Lord ? * If I be not an apostle unto others , yet doubtless I am to you : for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord . * Mine answer to them that do examine me is this , * Have we not power to eat and to drink ? * Have we not power to lead about a sister , a wife , as well as other apostles , and as the brethren of the Lord , and Cephas ? * Or I only and Barnabas , have not we power to forbear working ? * Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges ? who planteth a vineyard , and eateth not of the fruit thereof ? or who feedeth a flock , and eateth not of the milk of the flock ? * Say I these things as a man ? or saith not the law the same also ? * For it is written in the law of Moses , Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn . Doth God take care for oxen ? * Or saith he it altogether for our sakes ? For our sakes , no doubt , this is written : that he that ploweth should plow in hope ; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope . * If we have sown unto you spiritual things , is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things ? * If others be partakers of this power over you , are not we rather ? Nevertheless we have not used this power ; but suffer all things , lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ . * Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple ? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar ? * Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel . * But I have used none of these things : neither have I written these things , that it should be so done unto me : for it were better for me to die , than that any man should make my glorying void . * For though I preach the gospel , I have nothing to glory of : for necessity is laid upon me ; yea , woe is unto me , if I preach not the gospel ! * For if I do this thing willingly , I have a reward : but if against my will , a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me . * What is my reward then ? Verily that , when I preach the gospel , I may make the gospel of Christ without charge , that I abuse not my power in the gospel . * For though I be free from all men , yet have I made myself servant unto all , that I might gain the more . * And unto the Jews I became as a Jew , that I might gain the Jews ; to them that are under the law , as under the law , that I might gain them that are under the law ; * To them that are without law , as without law , (being not without law to God , but under the law to Christ ,) that I might gain them that are without law . * To the weak became I as weak , that I might gain the weak : I am made all things to all men , that I might by all means save some . * And this I do for the gospel 's sake , that I might be partaker thereof with you . * Know ye not that they which run in a race run all , but one receiveth the prize ? So run , that ye may obtain . * And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things . Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown ; but we an incorruptible . * I therefore so run , not as uncertainly ; so fight I , not as one that beateth the air : * But I keep under my body , and bring it into subjection : lest that by any means , when I have preached to others , I myself should be a castaway . * Moreover , brethren , I would not that ye should be ignorant , how that all our fathers were under the cloud , and all passed through the sea ;

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