Dare (1) (a) any of you, having a matter against another, go to law (b) before the unjust, (2) and not before the saints? (1) The third question is of civil judgments. Whether it is lawful for one of the faithful to draw another of the faithful before the judgment seat of an infidel? He answers tha... [ Continue Reading ]
(3) 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? (3) He gathers by a comparison that the faithful cannot seek to be judged by infidels, without great injury done to the saints, seeing that God himself w... [ Continue Reading ]
(4) If then ye have (c) judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are (d) least esteemed in the church. (4) The conclusion, in which he prescribes a remedy for this wrong: that is, if they end their private affairs between themselves by chosen arbiters out of the Church: fo... [ Continue Reading ]
(5) 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? (5) He applies the general proposition to a particular, always calling them back to this, to take away from them the false opinion of their own excellency from... [ Continue Reading ]
(6) Now therefore there is utterly a (e) fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. (7) Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather [suffer yourselves to] be defrauded? (6) Now he goes further also, and even though by granting them private arbiters out of the congregation of... [ Continue Reading ]
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? (8) Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, (8) Now he prepares himself to pass over to the fourth treatise of this epistle, which concerns othe... [ Continue Reading ]
And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the (f) name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. (f) In Jesus.... [ Continue Reading ]
(9) (g) 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 (h) power of any. (9) Secondly, he shows that the Corinthians offend in small matters. First, because they abused them. Next, because they used indifferent thin... [ Continue Reading ]
(10) 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. (10) Secondly, because they counted many things as indifferent which were of themselves unlawful, as fornication, which they... [ Continue Reading ]
(11) 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. (11) A declaration of the former argument by opposites, and the application of it.... [ Continue Reading ]
(12) What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for (i) two, saith he, shall be one flesh. (12) A proof of the same argument: a harlot and Christ are completely contrary, so are the flesh and the Spirit. Therefore he that is one with a harlot (which is done by sexual interc... [ Continue Reading ]
(13) Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. (13) Another argument why fornication is to be avoided, because it defiles the body with a peculiar type of filthiness.... [ Continue Reading ]
(14) What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost [which is] in you, which ye have of God, and (15) ye are not your own? (14) The third argument: because a fornicator is sacrilegious, because our bodies are consecrated to God. (15) The fourth argument: because we are not our ow... [ Continue Reading ]