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    1 Corinthians 6

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    The people destined to judge angels bring their quarrels before unbelievers, while no one among them can arbitrate between brothers.

    A courtroom too grand for ordinary quarrelsvv. 1–11

    The saints are assigned the world as a bench and angels as an even loftier case, yet an everyday dispute sends one brother to law against another before unbelievers. The rebuke is deliciously severe: if lawsuits already mean defeat, being wronged or cheated would apparently be the nobler performance. Instead, the brothers cheat one another themselves. Then comes the stern catalogue of those who will not inherit God’s kingdom, followed by the startling turn: some of these people once belonged to that catalogue, but were washed, sanctified, and justified.

    Permission, appetite, and the bodyvv. 12–20

    A pair of slogans is brought out and promptly refused. Everything may be permissible, but not everything is beneficial, and permission must not become a master. Food and stomach are treated as a temporary arrangement, while the body is claimed for the Lord and destined for resurrection. From there the argument becomes wonderfully physical: bodies are members of Christ, joining them to a prostitute would make a single body, and the body itself is a temple of the Holy Spirit. The final price is not left vague: the body was bought, and God is to be glorified with it.

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    1. 1 Cor 6:1If any of you has a grievance against another, how dare he go to law before the unrighteous instead of before the saints!

    2. 1 Cor 6:2Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases?

    3. 1 Cor 6:3Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life!

    4. 1 Cor 6:4So if you need to settle everyday matters, do you appoint as judges those of no standing in the church?

    5. 1 Cor 6:5I say this to your shame. Is there really no one among you wise enough to arbitrate between his brothers?

    6. 1 Cor 6:6Instead, one brother goes to law against another, and this in front of unbelievers!

    7. 1 Cor 6:7The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means that you are thoroughly defeated already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?

    8. 1 Cor 6:8Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, even against your own brothers!

    9. 1 Cor 6:9Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,

    10. 1 Cor 6:10nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.

    11. 1 Cor 6:11And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

    12. 1 Cor 6:12“Everything is permissible for me,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible for me,” but I will not be mastered by anything.

    13. 1 Cor 6:13“Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will destroy them both. The body is not intended for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

    14. 1 Cor 6:14By His power God raised the Lord from the dead, and He will raise us also.

    15. 1 Cor 6:15Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!

    16. 1 Cor 6:16Or don’t you know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.”

    17. 1 Cor 6:17But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with Him in spirit.

    18. 1 Cor 6:18Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.

    19. 1 Cor 6:19Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;

    20. 1 Cor 6:20you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.

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    • 191 Corinthians 3:16Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?
    • 192 Corinthians 6:16What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.”
    • 191 Peter 2:5you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
    • 19Ephesians 2:21–22In Him the whole building is fitted together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord.
    • 91 Timothy 1:9–10We realize that law is not enacted for the righteous, but for the lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinful, for the unholy and profane, for killers of father or mother, for murderers,
    • 201 Corinthians 7:23You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men.
    • 9Galatians 5:19–21The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;
    • 20Romans 12:1Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.
    • 19Psalms 100:3Know that the LORD is God. It is He who made us, and we are His; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.
    • 191 Corinthians 6:15–16Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!
    • 201 Peter 2:9But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
    • 9Ephesians 5:4–5Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk, or crude joking, which are out of character, but rather thanksgiving.
    • 9Leviticus 20:13If a man lies with a man as with a woman, they have both committed an abomination. They must surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
    • 19Titus 2:14He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.
    • 9Leviticus 18:22You must not lie with a man as with a woman; that is an abomination.
    • 201 Peter 1:18For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life you inherited from your forefathers,

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