I Corinthians 5-6

I Corinthians 5

¹It is universally reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the nations, so that one should have his father's wife.

²And *ye* are puffed up, and ye have not rather mourned, in order that he that has done this deed might be taken away out of the midst of you.

³For *I*, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged as present,

⁴to deliver, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ (ye and my spirit being gathered together, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ), him that has so wrought this:

⁵to deliver him, I say, being such, to Satan for destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

⁶Your boasting is not good. Do ye not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

⁷Purge out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, according as ye are unleavened. For also our passover, Christ, has been sacrificed;

⁸so that let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with leaven of malice and wickedness, but with unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

⁹I have written to you in the epistle not to mix with fornicators;

¹⁰not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the avaricious and rapacious, or idolaters, since then ye should go out of the world.

¹¹But now I have written to you, if any one called brother be fornicator, or avaricious, or idolater, or abusive, or a drunkard, or rapacious, not to mix with him; with such a one not even to eat.

¹²For what have *I* to do with judging those outside also? *ye*, do not ye judge them that are within?

¹³But those without God judges. Remove the wicked person from amongst yourselves.

I Corinthians 6

¹Dare any one of you, having a matter against another, prosecute his suit before the unjust, and not before the saints?

²Do ye not then know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy of the smallest judgments?

³Do ye not know that we shall judge angels? and not then matters of this life?

⁴If then ye have judgments as to things of this life, set those to judge who are little esteemed in the assembly.

⁵I speak to you to put you to shame. Thus there is not a wise person among you, not even one, who shall be able to decide between his brethren!

⁶But brother prosecutes his suit with brother, and that before unbelievers.

⁷Already indeed then it is altogether a fault in you that ye have suits between yourselves. Why do ye not rather suffer wrong? why are ye not rather defrauded?

⁸But *ye* do wrong, and defraud, and this your brethren.

⁹Do ye not know that unrighteous persons shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who make women of themselves, nor who abuse themselves with men,

¹⁰nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor abusive persons, nor the rapacious, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

¹¹And these things were some of you; but ye have been washed, but ye have been sanctified, but ye have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

¹²All things are lawful to me, but all things do not profit; all things are lawful to me, but *I* will not be brought under the power of any.

¹³Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats; but God will bring to nothing both it and them: but the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

¹⁴And God has both raised up the Lord, and will raise us up from among the dead by his power.

¹⁵Do ye not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then, taking the members of the Christ, make them members of a harlot? Far be the thought.

¹⁶Do ye not know that he that is joined to the harlot is one body? for the two, he says, shall be one flesh.

¹⁷But he that is joined to the Lord is one Spirit.

¹⁸Flee fornication. Every sin which a man may practise is without the body, but he that commits fornication sins against his own body.

¹⁹Do ye not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have of God; and ye are not your own?

²⁰for ye have been bought with a price: glorify now then God in your body.