| Chapter 6 |
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Dare any one of you, having a matter against another, prosecute his suit before the unjust, and not before the saints? |
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Do ye not then know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy of the smallest judgments? |
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Do ye not know that we shall judge angels? and not then matters of this life? |
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If then ye have judgments as to things of this life, set those to judge who are little esteemed in the assembly. |
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I speak to you to put you to shame. Thus there is not a wise person among you, not even one, who shall be able to decide between his brethren! |
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But brother prosecutes his suit with brother, and that before unbelievers. |
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Already indeed then it is altogether a fault in you that ye have suits between yourselves. Why do ye not rather suffer wrong? why are ye not rather defrauded? |
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But *ye* do wrong, and defraud, and this your brethren. |
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Do ye not know that unrighteous persons shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who make women of themselves, nor who abuse themselves with men, |
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nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor abusive persons, nor the rapacious, shall inherit the kingdom of God. |
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And these things were some of you; but ye have been washed, but ye have been sanctified, but ye have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. |
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All things are lawful to me, but all things do not profit; all things are lawful to 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 will bring to nothing both it and them: but the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. |
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And God has both raised up the Lord, and will raise us up from among the dead by his power. |
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Do ye not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then, taking the members of the Christ, make them members of a harlot? Far be the thought. |
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Do ye not know that he that is joined to the harlot is one body? for the two, he says, shall be one flesh. |
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But he that is joined to the Lord is one Spirit. |
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Flee fornication. Every sin which a man may practise is without the body, but he that commits fornication sins against his own body. |
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Do ye not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have of God; and ye are not your own? |
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for ye have been bought with a price: glorify now then God in your body. |