1 Corinthians 5 - 6
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It is actually reported that there is w sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, x for a man has his father's wife.
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And y you are arrogant! Ought you z not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you.
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For though a absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing.
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When you are assembled b in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus,
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you are c to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so d that his spirit may be saved e in the day of the Lord.
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f Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that g a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
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Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
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Let us therefore celebrate the festival, h not with the old leaven, i the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
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I wrote to you in my letter j not to associate with sexually immoral people -
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k not at all meaning l the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, m since then you would need to go out of the world.
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But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone n who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler - not even to eat with such a one.
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For what have I to do with judging o outsiders? p Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge?
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God judges those outside. q "Purge the evil person from among you."
1 Corinthians 6
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When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous r instead of the saints?
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Or do you not know that s the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases?
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Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life!
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So if you have such cases, t why do you lay them before those who have no standing in the church?
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u I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between the brothers,
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but brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers?
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To have lawsuits at all with one another is already a defeat for you. v Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded?
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But you yourselves wrong and defraud - even w your own brothers!
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Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: x neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,
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nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
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And y such were some of you. But z you were washed, a you were sanctified, b you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
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c "All things are lawful for me," but not all things are helpful. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be enslaved by anything.
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d "Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food" - and God will destroy both one e and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but f for the Lord, and g the Lord for the body.
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And h God raised the Lord and i will also raise us up j by his power.
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Do you not know that k your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!
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Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, l "The two will become one flesh."
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But he who is joined to the Lord m becomes one spirit with him.
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n Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person o sins against his own body.
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Or p do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? q You are not your own,
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r for you were bought with a price. s So glorify God in your body.
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2 Corinthians 12:21
I fear that when I come again my God may humble me before you, and I may have to mourn over many of those who sinned earlier and have not repented of the impurity, sexual immorality, and sensuality that they have practiced.
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Leviticus 18:8
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife; it is your father's nakedness.
Deuteronomy 22:30
A man shall not take his father's wife, so that he does not uncover his father's nakedness.
Deuteronomy 27:20
"'Cursed be anyone who lies with his father's wife, because he has uncovered his father's nakedness.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
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1 Corinthians 4:6
I have applied all these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, brothers, that you may learn by us not to go beyond what is written, that none of you may be puffed up in favor of one against another.
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2 Corinthians 7:7 - 10
And not only by his coming but also by the comfort with which he was comforted by you, as he told us of your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced still more.
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Colossians 2:5
For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ.
1 Thessalonians 2:17
But since we were torn away from you, brothers, for a short time, in person not in heart, we endeavored the more eagerly and with great desire to see you face to face.
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2 Thessalonians 3:6
Now we command you, brothers, in the name of ou...
Matthew 16:19
I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heav...
Matthew 18:18
Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth...
John 20:23
If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiv...
2 Corinthians 13:3
Since you seek proof that Christ is speaking in...
2 Corinthians 13:10
For this reason I write these things while I am...
1 Timothy 5:20
As for those who persist in sin, rebuke them in...
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1 Timothy 1:20
Among whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme.
Job 2:6
And the Lord said to Satan, "Behold, he is in your hand; only spare his life.
Acts 26:18
To open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.
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Proverbs 23:14
If you strike him with the rod, you will save his soul from Sheol.
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1 Corinthians 1:8
Who will sustain you to the end, guiltless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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James 4:16
As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
1 Corinthians 5:2
And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you.
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Galatians 5:9
A little leaven leavens the whole lump.
1 Corinthians 15:33
Do not be deceived: "Bad company ruins good morals.
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Exodus 12:15
Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven out of your houses, for if anyone eats what is leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel.
Deuteronomy 16:3
You shall eat no leavened bread with it. Seven days you shall eat it with unleavened bread, the bread of affliction - for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste - that all the days of your life you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt.
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Matthew 16:6
Jesus said to them, "Watch and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
Matthew 16:12
Then they understood that he did not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
Mark 8:15
And he cautioned them, saying, "Watch out; beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.
Luke 12:1
In the meantime, when so many thousands of the people had gathered together that they were trampling one another, he began to say to his disciples first, "Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
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2 Corinthians 6:14
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
Ephesians 5:11
Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.
2 Thessalonians 3:6
Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from any brother who is walking in idleness and not in accord with the tradition that you received from us.
2 Thessalonians 3:14
If anyone does not obey what we say in this letter, take note of that person, and have nothing to do with him, that he may be ashamed.
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1 Corinthians 10:27
If one of the unbelievers invites you to dinner and you are disposed to go, eat whatever is set before you without raising any question on the ground of conscience.
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Ephesians 5:5
For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous ( that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
Colossians 3:5
Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
1 Corinthians 6:9
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality.
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John 17:15
I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one.
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2 Thessalonians 3:6
Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from any brother who is walking in idleness and not in accord with the tradition that you received from us.
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Mark 4:11
And he said to them, "To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside everything is in parables.
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1 Corinthians 6:1 - 4
When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints?
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Deuteronomy 13:5
But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shal...
Deuteronomy 17:7
The hand of the witnesses shall be first agains...
Deuteronomy 17:12
The man who acts presumptuously by not obeying ...
Deuteronomy 21:21
Then all the men of the city shall stone him to...
Deuteronomy 22:21 - 22
Then they shall bring out the young woman to th...
Deuteronomy 22:24
Then you shall bring them both out to the gate ...
Judges 20:13
Now therefore give up the men, the worthless fe...
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Matthew 18:17
If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.
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Daniel 7:22
Until the Ancient of Days came, and judgment was given for the saints of the Most High, and the time came when the saints possessed the kingdom.
Matthew 19:28
Jesus said to them, "Truly, I say to you, in the new world, when the Son of Man will sit on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Revelation 20:4
Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
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1 Corinthians 5:12
For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge?
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1 Corinthians 15:34
Wake up from your drunken stupor, as is right, and do not go on sinning. For some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
1 Corinthians 4:14
I do not write these things to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
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Matthew 5:39 - 40
But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.
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1 Thessalonians 4:6
That no one transgress and wrong his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we told you beforehand and solemnly warned you.
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1 Corinthians 15:50
I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cann...
Galatians 5:21
Envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like thes...
Ephesians 5:5
For you may be sure of this, that everyone who ...
1 Timothy 1:9
Understanding this, that the law is not laid do...
Hebrews 12:14
Strive for peace with everyone, and for the hol...
Hebrews 13:4
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and le...
Revelation 21:8
But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the det...
Revelation 22:15
Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and the sexu...
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1 Corinthians 12:2
You know that when you were pagans you were led...
Ephesians 2:2 - 3
In which you once walked, following the course ...
Ephesians 4:22
To put off your old self, which belongs to your...
Ephesians 5:8
For at one time you were darkness, but now you ...
Colossians 3:7
In these you too once walked, when you were liv...
Titus 3:3
For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient...
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Acts 22:16
And now why do you wait? Rise and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on his name.
Hebrews 10:22
Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
Titus 3:5
He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit.
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1 Corinthians 1:2
To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:
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Romans 8:30
And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.
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1 Corinthians 10:23
All things are lawful," but not all things are helpful. "All things are lawful," but not all things build up.
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Matthew 15:17
Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is expelled?
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Colossians 2:22
( referring to things that all perish as they are used) - according to human precepts and teachings?
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1 Corinthians 6:15
Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!
1 Corinthians 6:19
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own.
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Ephesians 5:23
For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.
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Acts 2:24
God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.
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1 Corinthians 15:22 - 23
For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.
John 6:39 - 40
And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day.
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Matthew 22:29
But Jesus answered them, "You are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God.
Ephesians 1:19 - 20
And what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might
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1 Corinthians 6:13
Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food" - and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
Ephesians 5:30
Because we are members of his body.
1 Corinthians 12:27
Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
Romans 12:5
So we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
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Matthew 19:5
And said, 'Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'?
Mark 10:8
And the two shall become one flesh.' So they are no longer two but one flesh.
Ephesians 5:31
"Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh."
Genesis 2:24
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
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Genesis 2:24
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
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Ephesians 4:4
There is one body and one Spirit - just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call -
John 17:21 - 23
That they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
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2 Corinthians 12:21
I fear that when I come again my God may humble me before you, and I may have to mourn over many of those who sinned earlier and have not repented of the impurity, sexual immorality, and sensuality that they have practiced.
Ephesians 5:3
But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.
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Proverbs 5:11
And at the end of your life you groan, when your flesh and body are consumed.
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John 2:21
But he was speaking about the temple of his body.
1 Corinthians 3:16
Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?
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Romans 14:7
For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself.
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1 Corinthians 7:23
You were bought with a price; do not become slaves of men.
Acts 20:28
Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.
Hebrews 9:12
He entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.
Hebrews 9:14
How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
2 Peter 2:1
But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.
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Philippians 1:20
As it is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be at all ashamed, but that with full courage now as always Christ will be honored in my body, whether by life or by death.
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