1Corinthians:5-9
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It is actually reported that there is immorality among you ,
and such immorality as is not even among the heathen -
that a man has taken his fathers wife !
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Yet you are puffed up instead of mourning and removing from among you the man who has done this thing .
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For I ,
although absent in body ,
yet present in spirit ,
have already passed sentence ,
by the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ ,
on him who has done this thing .
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When you are gathered together ,
and my spirit is with you together with the power of our Lord Jesus ,
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I have handed over such a man to Satan for the destruction of his flesh ,
that his spirit may be saved ,
in the day of the Lord Jesus .
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Your glorying is not good .
Do you not know that even a little leaven leavens all the lump ?
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Then get rid of the old leaven ,
so that you may be like a new lump ,
as you are now unleavened .
For our Paschal Lamb has already been sacrificed ,
Christ himself .
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So let us keep the unending feast ,
not with any old leaven ,
neither with leaven of malice and vice ,
but with unleavened bread of sincerity and truth .
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I told you in my letter not to associate with the immoral .
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Not that in this world you were actually to have no contact with the immoral ,
the avaricious ,
the thievish ,
or with idolaters ;
for then you would have to leave the world ,
altogether .
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But what I wrote was that you were not to associate with any so -
called brother who is immoral ,
or avaricious ,
or idolatrous ,
or abusive ,
or a drunkard ,
or an extortioner .
No ,
with such persons do not even sit at table .
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What have I to do with the judging of outsiders ?
Must not you judge those who are within the church ,
while God judges outsiders ?
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Expel that wicked man from among you .
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Dare any one of you who has a grievance against his neighbor go to law before heathen judges ,
instead of before the saints ?
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Do you not know that the saints will judge the world ?
And if the world is to be tried by you ,
are you unfit to try such trifling cases ?
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Do you not know that we are to try angels ?
How much more ,
then ,
the affairs of life .
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Why then ,
if you have cases relating to earthly affairs which need to be decided ,
is it men who are absolutely nothing in the church whom you make your judges ?
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I say this to shame you .
Is it so that there is not among you a single wise man ,
capable of deciding between a man and his brother ?
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Must brother go to law with brother ,
and that ,
too ,
before unbelievers ?
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Indeed ,
to say nothing more ,
the fact that you have lawsuits with one another is altogether a defect in you .
Why not rather suffer injustice ?
Why not rather endure being cheated ?
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On the contrary ,
you yourselves are inflicting injustice and fraud ,
and that upon your brothers .
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Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God ?
Do not be deceived .
None who are immoral ,
or idolaters ,
or adulterers ,
or catamites ,
or sodomites ,
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or thieves ,
or avaricious men ,
or drunkards ,
or foul-mouthed men ,
or extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God .
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Such were some of you ,
but you have washed away your stains ,
you have been consecrated ,
you have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ ,
and in the Spirit of our God .
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All things are lawful for me "?
Yes ,
but not all things are good for me . "
All things are lawful for me "?
Yes ,
but I will not let myself be enslaved by the power of any .
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Food is meant for the stomach ,
and the stomach for food "?
Yes ,
but God will soon put an end both to the one and to the other .
The body ,
however ,
exists not for immorality ,
but for the Lord ,
and the Lord for the body ;
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and the God who raised up our Lord will up-raise us also by his mighty power .
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You know ,
do you not ,
that your bodies are members of Christ ?
Shall I then take the members of Christ ,
and make them members of a harlot ?
God forbid !
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Do you not know that he who joins himself to a harlot is one with her in body ? (
For God says ,
The two shall become one flesh .)
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While a man who is united with the Lord is one with Him in spirit ?
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Flee from immorality .
Every other sin that a man commits lies outside the body ,
but the immoral man sins against his own body .
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Do you not know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is within you ,
the Spirit whom you have from God ?
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You are not your own ;
for you have been bought with a price ,
therefore glorify God in your bodies .
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Now concerning the question in your letter .
It is well for a man to have no intercourse with a woman ,
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but because there is so much immorality let each man have his own wife ;
and let each women have her own husband .
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Let the husband give his wife her due ,
and likewise the wife her husband .
The wife is not mistress of her own person ,
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but her husband is ;
and in the same way the husband is not master of his own person ,
but his wife is .
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Do not refuse one another ,
unless it is only temporary and by mutual consent ,
so that you may devote yourselves to prayer .
Then come together again ,
lest through your lack of self-control Satan begin to tempt you to sin .
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But what I have just said is by way of concession ,
not command .
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I would that every one lived as I do ;
but each man has his own special gift from God ,
one this ,
another that .
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But to the unmarried ,
and the widows ,
I say that it is well for them to remain as I am .
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If ,
however ,
they are not exercising self-control ,
by all means let them marry ;
for marriage is better than the fever of passion .
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But to those already married my commandment is -
and not mine ,
but the Lords -
that a wife is not to leave her husband ;
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or if she has already left him let her either remain as she is ,
or be reconciled to him ),
and also that a husband is not to put away his wife .
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To the rest it is I who am speaking ,
not the Lord .
If any brother has a wife who is not a believer ,
if he is willing to live with her ,
let him not send her away .
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And a woman whose husband is not a believer ,
if he is willing to live with her ,
let her not separate from him .
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For the unbelieving husband is consecrated through union with his believing wife ;
and the unbelieving wife ,
through union with her believing husband .
Otherwise your children would be unholy ,
but now they are consecrated to God .
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But if the unbelieving partner be determined to leave ,
separation let it be .
In such cases the believing husband or wife is not under bondage .
But it is into peace that God has called us .
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For how do you know ,
wife ,
whether you will save your husband ?
Or how do you know ,
husband ,
whether you will save your wife ?
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Only whatever be the lot in life to which God has assigned each one -
and whatever the condition in which he was living when God called him - -
in that let him continue .
Such is the rule I give in all the churches .
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So ,
was any man called ,
being circumcised ?
Let him not become uncircumcised .
Was any man called when he was uncircumcised ?
Let him not be circumcised .
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Circumcision is nothing ,
and uncircumcision is nothing .
Keeping Gods commands in everything .
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Whatever be the condition of life in which he was called ,
in that let him continue .
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Were you called in slavery ?
Let not that trouble you ;
but if you can become free make use of the opportunity .
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For the slave who has been called in the Lord is the Lords freedman ;
and in the same way ,
the free man who is called is Christs slave .
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You have been brought with a price ;
do not become slaves to men .
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Where each man stood when he was called ,
there ,
brothers ,
let him stay ,
close to God .
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I have no command from the Lord to give you concerning unmarried women ;
but I give you my opinion ,
and it is that of a man who ,
through the Lords mercy ,
is deserving of your confidence .
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I think then ,
that in view of the time of suffering now imminent ,
it is best for a man to remain as he is .
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Are you bound to a wife ?
Do not seek to be free .
Are you free from the marriage bond ?
Do not seek for a wife .
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Yet if you do not marry ,
you have not done wrong ;
and if a girl marries ,
she has not done wrong .
Such people ,
however ,
will have trouble in worldy affairs ,
and I wish to spare you .
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Indeed ,
brothers ,
the time that remains to us has been shortened ;
so let those who have wives live as if they had none ,
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let those who weep be as though they did not weep ,
those who rejoice as though they did not rejoice ,
those who buy as though they did not possess ,
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and those who use the world as though using it sparingly .
For the present phase of the world is passing away .
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So I want you to be free from all anxieties .
An unmarried man is anxious about the Lords business ,
how he may please the Lord ;
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but a married man is anxious about worldly affairs ,
how he may please his wife ,
and he is divided in his mind .
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Again ,
the woman who is widow ,
or the maid ,
is anxious about the Lords business ,
how she may be pure in body and in mind ;
but the married woman is anxious about worldly affairs ,
how she may please her husband .
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It is in your own interest that I say this ;
not that I may entangle you in a snare ,
but that I may help you to serve the Lord with fitting and undistracted service .
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If ,
however ,
a father feels that he is not treating his virgin daughter in a seemly manner ,
in leaving her unmarried beyond the flower of her age ,
and so the matter is urgent ,
let him do what she desires ;
he commits no sin .
Let the marriage take place .
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On the other hand ,
he who is firm in his purpose and is under no compulsion ,
but is free to carry out his own wishes ,
and who has determined to keep his daughter unmarried ,
does well .
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So he that gives his daughter in marriage is doing right ,
and he who keeps her unmarried will be doing right ,
and he who keeps her unmarried will be doing better .
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A wife is bound to her husband during his lifetime ;
but if her husband dies ,
she is free to marry whomever she will ,
provided it be in the Lord .
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But she is happier ,
in my judgment ,
if she remains as she is ;
and I think that I ,
too ,
have the Spirit of God .
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Now in regard to food which has been offered to idols ,
we are sure of course that "
we all have knowledge ."
But knowledge puffs up ,
while love builds up .
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If a man thinks that he already has knowledge ,
he does not yet truly know as he ought to know ;
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but if a man loves God ,
he is known by him .
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Now as to eating food that has been offered to idols ,
we know well that an idol has no real existence in the universe ,
and that there is no God but One .
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For though there be so-called "
gods ,"
celestial of terrestrial ,
as indeed there are gods many and lords many ,
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yet for there is one God ,
the Father ,
from whom are all things ,
and we for him ;
and one Lord Jesus Christ ,
by whom are all things ,
and we by him .
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But that "
knowledge "
is not possessed by all ;
but some ,
accustomed until now to the idol ,
eat food as that which has actually been offered to an idol ,
and so their conscience ,
being still weak ,
is defiled .
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Now food does not bring us nearness to God .
Neither if we eat do we gain any advantage ,
nor if we eat not ,
do we lose any .
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But see to it lest this right of yours become a stumbling-block to the weak .
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For if any one should see you ,
the possessor of "
knowledge ,"
reclining at table in an idols temple ,
would not his conscience ,
if he were weak ,
be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols ?
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So he is lost ,
this weak man ,
lost by your "
knowledge ."
this brother for whom Christ died .
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In so sinning against your brothers ,
and in ever and again wounding their weak consciences ,
you are sinning against Christ .
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Therefore ,
if what I eat makes my brother to stumble ,
I will never eat meat again ,
lest I make my brother to stumble .
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Am I not free ?
Am I not an apostle ?
Have I not seen Jesus our Lord ?
Are you not my work in the Lord ?
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Even if I am not an apostle to others ,
to you at least I am ;
for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord .
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This is my reply to my critics .
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Have I no right to claim food and drink ?
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Have I no right to take a believing wife with me on my journey ,
as the rest of the apostles and the Lords brothers and Peter do ?
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Are we the only ones ,
Barnabas and I ,
who have no right to give up manual labor ?
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What soldier ever serves at his own expense ?
What farmer ever plants a vineyard and his flock and does not taste the milk ?
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Am I saying this on human authority only ,
or does not the Law also say the same ?
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Yea ,
in the Law of Moses it is written ,
Thou shalt not muzzle an ox while he is treading out the grain .
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Is it the oxen that God is thinking about ,
or is it really said for our sakes ?
It was written for us ;
because the plowman ought to plow in hope ,
and the thresher in hope of getting a share of the crop .
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If I have sown for you the seeds of spiritual good ,
is it a great thing if I reap from you temporal goods ?
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If others share this authority over you ,
do not I far more ?
Yet I have not availed myself of it ,
but am patiently enduring ;
so that I may not in any way hinder the progress of Christs gospel .
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You know ,
do you not ,
that those who minister in the temple ,
and those who serve at the altar ,
get their portion of the sacrifices ?
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Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the gospel should get their living by the gospel .
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But for my part ,
I have never availed myself of any of these rights .
I do not say this to bring it about in my own case .
I would rather die than let any one make void this boast of mine .
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Proclaiming the gospel gives me no ground of boasting ;
for necessity is laid upon me ;
woe is me if I preach not the gospel .
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For if I do this of my own accord ,
I have my pay ;
but if unwilling ,
I have at least discharged my stewardship .
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What then is my wage ?
This ,
that I can make the gospel free where I carry it ;
and that I can refrain from using my rights as a preacher of the gospel .
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Though free from all men ,
I make myself the slave of all ,
that I may win the more .
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To the Jews I am become like a Jew ,
that I may win Jews ;
to those under the Law ,
like one under the Law ,
though I am not under the Law ,
myself ;
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to those outside the Law ,
as one outside the Law ,
to win those outside the Law (
though I am not outside the law of God ,
but inside the law of Christ ).
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I am become weak to the weak ,
to win the weak .
I am become all these things to all men that ,
by any and by all means ,
I may save some .
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And I am doing it all for the gospels sake ,
that I may become a copartner in it .
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Do you not know that in a foot-race ,
though all run ,
only one receives the prize ?
So run that you may win .
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Every man who contends in the games continually trains himself by all manner of self-restraint .
Now they do it to get a fading garland ,
but we ,
one that is unfading .
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For my part ,
then ,
I run with no wavering to the goal .
I box not as one beating the air ,
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but I bruise my body and keep it in subjection ,
lest having called others to the contest ,
I should myself be disqualified .
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For I would not have you ignorant ,
brothers ,
how our fathers were all under the cloud ,
and all passed through the sea ,
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