1 Corinthians 6:1-4
GOING TO LAW WITH BRETHREN. The charge:... [ Continue Reading ]
GOING TO LAW WITH BRETHREN. The charge:... [ Continue Reading ]
DARE ANY OF YOU, HAVING A MATTER AGAINST ANOTHER, GO TO LAW BEFORE THE UNJUST AND NOT BEFORE THE SAINTS?... [ Continue Reading ]
DO YE NOT KNOW THAT THE SAINTS SHALL JUDGE THE WORLD? AND IF THE WORLD SHALL BE JUDGED BY YOU, ARE YE UNWORTHY TO JUDGE THE SMALLEST MATTERS?... [ Continue Reading ]
KNOW YE NOT THAT WE SHALL JUDGE ANGELS? HOW MUCH MORE THINGS THAT PERTAIN TO THIS LIFE!... [ Continue Reading ]
IF, THEN, YE HAVE JUDGMENTS OF THINGS PERTAINING TO THIS LIFE, SET THEM TO JUDGE WHO ARE LEAST ESTEEMED IN THE CHURCH. The opening of this chapter is marked by an abrupt outburst of indignant feeling at the unworthy conduct manifested by some of the Corinthian Christians, probably such as were of Ge... [ Continue Reading ]
I SPEAK TO YOUR SHAME. IS IT SO THAT THERE IS NOT A WISE MAN AMONG YOU? NO, NOT ONE THAT SHALL BE ABLE TO JUDGE BETWEEN HIS BRETHREN?... [ Continue Reading ]
The apostle's reproof:... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT BROTHER GOETH TO LAW WITH BROTHER, AND THAT BEFORE THE UNBELIEVERS.... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW, THEREFORE, THERE IS UTTERLY A FAULT AMONG YOU BECAUSE YE GO TO LAW ONE WITH ANOTHER. WHY DO YE NOT RATHER TAKE WRONG? WHY DO YE NOT RATHER SUFFER YOURSELVES TO BE DEFRAUDED?... [ Continue Reading ]
NAY, YE DO WRONG, AND DEFRAUD, AND THAT YOUR BRETHREN. No wonder that Paul, under such circumstances, must call out shame upon them; their conduct is disgraceful and altogether unbecoming that of meek and charitable Christians. And he stresses this point still more: To this point have matters progr... [ Continue Reading ]
KNOW YE NOT THAT THE UNRIGHTEOUS SHALL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM, OF GOD? BE NOT DECEIVED; NEITHER FORNICATORS, NOR IDOLATERS, NOR ADULTERERS, NOR EFFEMINATE, NOR ABUSERS OF THEMSELVES WITH MANKIND,... [ Continue Reading ]
A warning to the immoral Christians:... [ Continue Reading ]
NOR THIEVES, NOR COVETOUS, NOR DRUNKARDS, NOR REVILERS, NOR EXTORTIONERS, SHALL INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SUCH WERE SOME OF YOU; BUT YE ARE WASHED, BUT YE ARE SANCTIFIED, BUT YE ARE JUSTIFIED IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS AND BY THE SPIRIT OF OUR GOD. The apostle had just told the Corinthians that they were far from showing the mind of Christ, that they were rather doing wrong, that they were exhibi... [ Continue Reading ]
ALL THINGS ARE LAWFUL UNTO ME, BUT ALL THINGS ARE NOT EXPEDIENT; ALL THINGS ARE LAWFUL FOR ME, BUT I WILL NOT BE BROUGHT UNDER THE POWER OF ANY.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE NECESSITY OF KEEPING THE BODY UNDEFILED. Christian expediency:... [ Continue Reading ]
MEATS FOR THE BELLY AND THE BELLY FOR MEATS; BUT GOD SHALL DESTROY BOTH IT AND THEM. NOW THE BODY IS NOT FOR FORNICATION, BUT FOR THE LORD, AND THE LORD FOR THE BODY.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND GOD HATH BOTH RAISED UP THE LORD, AND WILL ALSO RAISE UP US BY HIS OWN POWER. The apostle has repeatedly touched upon the fact that Christian liberty and license of the flesh are incompatible. The love of Christ is to regulate the use of Christian liberty according to the rule that all my deeds... [ Continue Reading ]
KNOW YE NOT THAT YOUR BODIES ARE THE MEMBERS OF CHRIST? SHALL I, THEN, TAKE THE MEMBERS OF CHRIST AND MAKE THEM THE MEMBERS OF AN HARLOT? GOD FORBID!... [ Continue Reading ]
An earnest warning against immorality:... [ Continue Reading ]
WHAT? KNOW YE NOT THAT HE WHICH IS JOINED TO AN HARLOT IS ONE BODY? FOR TWO, SAITH HE, SHALL BE ONE FLESH.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT HE THAT IS JOINED UNTO THE LORD IS ONE SPIRIT.... [ Continue Reading ]
FLEE FORNICATION. EVERY SIN THAT A MAN DOETH IS WITHOUT THE BODY; BUT HE THAT COMMITTETH FORNICATION SINNETH AGAINST HIS OWN BODY.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHAT? KNOW YE NOT THAT YOUR BODY IS THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY GHOST WHICH IS IN YOU, WHICH YE HAVE OF GOD, AND YE ARE NOT YOUR OWN?... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR YE ARE BOUGHT WITH A PRICE; THEREFORE GLORIFY GOD IN YOUR BODY AND IN YOUR SPIRIT, WHICH ARE GOD'S. The apostle speaks in holy zeal, with righteous indignation, without reservation, bringing the truth in its hideous nakedness. His aim is to bring to the distinct consciousness of his readers the... [ Continue Reading ]