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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Cross References
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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