1Corinthians:6

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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 ? * 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 ? * Do you not know that we are to try angels ? How much more , then , the affairs of life . * 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 ? * 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 ? * Must brother go to law with brother , and that , too , before unbelievers ? * 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 ? * On the contrary , you yourselves are inflicting injustice and fraud , and that upon your brothers . * 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 , * or thieves , or avaricious men , or drunkards , or foul-mouthed men , or extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God . * 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 . * "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 . * "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 ; * and the God who raised up our Lord will up-raise us also by his mighty power . * 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 ! * 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 .) * While a man who is united with the Lord is one with Him in spirit ? * Flee from immorality . Every other sin that a man commits lies outside the body , but the immoral man sins against his own body . * 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 ? * You are not your own ; for you have been bought with a price , therefore glorify God in your bodies .

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