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The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians, Chapter 6
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Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before
the unjust, and not before the saints?
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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?
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Know ye not that
we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?
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If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set
them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.
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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?
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But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before
the unbelievers.
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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?
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Nay, ye do wrong, and
defraud, and that your brethren.
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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,
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Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor
extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us
by his own power.
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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.
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What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one
body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
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But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
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Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body;
but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
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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?
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For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body,
and in your spirit, which are God's.
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