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1Corinthians |
(2) Here, moreover, it is required of stewards, that they be found faithful. (3) But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by mans judgment. Yes, I dont judge my own self. (4) For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord. (5) Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God. (6) Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another. (7) For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didnt receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it? (8) You are already filled. You have already become rich. You have come to reign without us. Yes, and I wish that you did reign, that we also might reign with you. (9) For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men. (10) We are fools for Christs sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor. (11) Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place. (12) We toil, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure. (13) Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now. (14) I dont write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children. (15) For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the gospel. (16) I beg you therefore, be imitators of me. (17) Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly. (18) Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you. (19) But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord is willing. And I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power. (20) For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power. (21) What do you want? Will I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?
(2) You are puffed up, and didnt rather mourn, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you. (3) For I most assuredly, as being absent in body but present in spirit, have already, as though I were present, judged him who has done this thing. (4) In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, (5) are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. (6) Your boasting is not good. Dont you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump? (7) Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place. (8) Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. (9) I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners; (10) yet not at all meaning with the sexual sinners of this world, or with the covetous and extortioners, or with idolaters; for then you would have to leave the world. (11) But as it is, I wrote to you not to keep company, if any man who is named a brother is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. Dont even eat with such a person. (12) For what have I to do with also judging those who are outside? Dont you judge those who are within? (13) But those who are outside, God judges. Put away the wicked man from among yourselves.
(2) Dont you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters? (3) Dont you know that we will judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life? (4) If then, you have to judge things pertaining to this life, do you set them to judge who are of no account in the assembly? (5) I say this to move you to shame. What, cant there be one wise man among you who will be able to decide between his brothers; (6) but brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers? (7) Therefore it is already altogether a defect in you, that you have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded? (8) No, but you yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that against your brothers. (9) Or dont you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Dont be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, (10) nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortioners, will inherit the kingdom of God. (11) Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God. (12) All things are lawful for me, but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of anything. (13) Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods, but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. (14) Now God raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his power. (15) Dont you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Will I then take away the members of Christ, and make them members of a prostitute? Certainly not! (16) Or dont you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, The two, says he, will become one flesh. (17) But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit. (18) Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. (19) Or dont you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, (20) for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are Gods.
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