I Corinthians 5-6

I Corinthians 5

¹It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, that one of you hath his father’s wife.

²And ye are puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he that had done this deed might be taken away from among you.

³For I verily, being absent in body but present in spirit, have already, as though I were present, judged him that hath so wrought this thing,

⁴in the name of our Lord Jesus, ye being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus,

⁵to deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

⁶Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

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

⁸wherefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

⁹I wrote unto you in my epistle to have no company with fornicators;

¹⁰not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous and extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world:

¹¹but now I write unto you not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one no, not to eat.

¹²For what have I to do with judging them that are without? Do not ye judge them that are within,

¹³whereas them that are without God judgeth? Put away the wicked man from among yourselves.

I Corinthians 6

¹Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbour, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?

²Or 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?

³Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more, things that pertain to this life?

⁴If then ye have to judge things pertaining to this life, do ye set them to judge who are of no account in the church?

⁵I 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,

⁶but brother goeth to law with brother, and that before unbelievers?

⁷Nay, 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?

⁸Nay, but ye yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.

⁹Or 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,

¹⁰nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

¹¹And 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.

¹²All 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.

¹³Meats 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:

¹⁴and God both raised the Lord, and will raise up us through his power.

¹⁵Know 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.

¹⁶Or know ye not that he that is joined to a harlot is one body? for, The twain, saith he, shall become one flesh.

¹⁷But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

¹⁸Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

¹⁹Or 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;

²⁰for ye were bought with a price: glorify God therefore in your body.