1 Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbour, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? 2 Or know ye not that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? 3 Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more, things that pertain to this life? 4 If then ye have to judge things pertaining to this life, do ye set them to judge who are of no account in the church? 5 I say [this ]to move you to shame. Is it so, that there cannot be [found ]among you one wise man, who shall be able to decide between his brethren, 6 but brother goeth to law with brother, and that before unbelievers? 7 Nay, already it is altogether a defect in you, that ye have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather take wrong? why not rather be defrauded? 8 Nay, but ye yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that [your ]brethren. 9 Or 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 men, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you: but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, 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 any. 13 Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall bring to nought both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body: 14 and God both raised the Lord, and will raise up us through his power. 15 Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ? shall I then take away the members of Christ, and make them members of a harlot? God forbid. 16 Or know ye not that he that is joined to a harlot is one body? for, The twain, saith he, shall become one flesh. 17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. 18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. 19 Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own; 20 for ye were bought with a price: glorify God therefore in your body.
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Cross references (20)
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- 1 Matthew 18:15–17; Acts 19:38; 1 Corinthians 14:33; 1 Corinthians 6:6–7; 1 Corinthians 16:1
- 2 Matthew 19:28; Revelation 20:4; Daniel 7:22; Luke 22:30; Revelation 3:21
- 3 Jude 6; Matthew 25:41; 1 Corinthians 6:4; Luke 8:14; 2 Timothy 2:4
- 4 1 Corinthians 5:12; Acts 6:2–4
- 5 1 Corinthians 4:14; 1 Corinthians 15:34; James 3:13–18; 1 Corinthians 4:10; Proverbs 14:8
- 6 Philippians 2:14–15; 1 John 2:9–11; 2 Corinthians 6:14; 1 John 3:11–15; 1 Corinthians 6:1
- 7 Romans 12:17–19; Proverbs 20:22; Matthew 5:39–41; 1 Peter 2:19–23; 1 Peter 3:9
- 8 1 Thessalonians 4:6; Colossians 3:25; Malachi 3:5; Leviticus 19:13; James 5:4
- 9 1 Timothy 1:9–10; Galatians 5:19–21; Ephesians 5:4–5; Leviticus 20:13; Leviticus 18:22
- 10 1 Corinthians 5:11; Galatians 5:21; Ephesians 4:28; Ezekiel 22:29; Ezekiel 22:27
- 11 1 Corinthians 1:30; Colossians 3:5–7; 1 Corinthians 1:2; Romans 6:17–19; Acts 22:16
- 12 1 Corinthians 10:23–33; 1 Corinthians 9:27; Hebrews 12:15–16; Romans 14:14–23; 1 Corinthians 8:7–13
- 13 1 Corinthians 6:19; 1 Corinthians 3:16; Romans 6:12; 1 Corinthians 6:15; 1 Thessalonians 4:3–7
- 14 2 Corinthians 4:14; Romans 8:11; Ephesians 1:19–20; Philippians 3:21; Acts 2:24
- 15 Ephesians 5:30; Romans 12:5; Ephesians 4:15–16; Colossians 2:19; 1 Corinthians 12:27
- 16 Genesis 2:24; Ephesians 5:31; Mark 10:8; Matthew 19:5–6; Matthew 21:31–32
- 17 John 17:21–23; Galatians 2:20; 1 Corinthians 12:13; Ephesians 4:3–4; John 3:6
- 18 1 Peter 2:11; 1 Thessalonians 4:3; Colossians 3:5; Romans 6:12–13; 2 Timothy 2:22
- 19 1 Corinthians 3:16; 2 Corinthians 6:16; 1 Peter 2:5; Ephesians 2:21–22; 1 Corinthians 6:15–16
- 20 1 Corinthians 7:23; Romans 12:1; 1 Peter 2:9; 1 Peter 1:18; Hebrews 9:12
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lawful:" but of things which seem to be indifferent. To illustrate my meaning: "It is lawful," he says, "to eat and to drink; but it is not expedient with excess." And so that marvellous and unexpected turn of his, which he is often wont to adopt; (Cf. Rom. xii. 21; 1 Cor. vii.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 12 (1889)
For it is well that they should be cut off from the lusts that are in the world, since "every lust warreth against the spirit;" and "neither fornicators, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, shall inherit the kingdom of God," nor those who do things inconsistent and unbecoming.
Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, not effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God." And as it was not to those who are without that he said these things, but to us, lest we should be cast forth from the kingdom …
… of Judas the traitor, the Apostle Paul, though he labored more than them all, should have no throne of judgment; but he unmistakeably considers himself to be included in the number of the judges when he says, "Know ye not that we shall judge angels?" The same rule is to be observed in applying the number twelve to those who …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
And Paul too saith, "But ye are washed, but ye are sanctified," not by the baptism of John, but "in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the Spirit of our God." And elsewhere too he saith, "John verily preached a baptism of repentance," (he saith not "of remission,") "that they should believe on Him that should come …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)