Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, 1 Corinthians — John Shaqi
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Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, 1 Corinthians
Weymouth, Richard Francis
Bible. Corinthians
006:003 Do you not know that we are to sit in judgement upon angels--
to say nothing of things belonging to this life?
006:004 If therefore you have things belonging to this life which need
to be decided, is it men who are absolutely nothing in the Church--
is it *they* whom you make your judges?
006:005 I say this to put you to shame. Has it come to this,
that there does not exist among you a single wise man competent
to decide between a man and his brother,
006:006 but brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers?
006:007 To say no more, then, it is altogether a defect in you that you
have law-suits with one another. Why not rather endure injustice?
Why not rather submit to being defrauded?
006:008 On the contrary you yourselves inflict injustice and fraud,
and upon brethren too.
006:009 Do you not know that unrighteous men will not inherit
God's Kingdom? Cherish no delusion here. Neither fornicators,
nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor any who are guilty
of unnatural crime,
006:010 nor theives, nor avaricious people, nor any who are addicted
to hard drinking, to abusive language or to greed of gain,
will inherit God's Kingdom.
006:011 And all this describes what some of you were. But now you have had
every stain washed off: now you have been set apart as holy:
now you have been pronounced free from guilt; in the name
of our Lord Jesus Christ and through the Spirit of our God.
006:012 Everything is allowable to me, but not everything is profitable.
Everything is allowable to me, but to nothing will I
become a slave.
006:013 Food of all kinds is meant for the stomach, and the stomach
is meant for food, and God will cause both of them to perish.
Yet the body does not exist for the purpose of fornication,
but for the Master's service, and the Master exists for the body;
006:014 and as God by His power raised the Master to life, so He
will also raise us up.
006:015 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I
then take away the members of Christ and make them the members
of a prostitute? No, indeed.
006:016 Or do you not know that a man who has to do with a prostitute is
one with her in body? For God says, "The two shall become one."
006:017 But he who is in union with the Master is one with Him in spirit.
006:018 Flee from fornication. Any other sin that a human being commits
lies outside the body; but he who commits fornication sins
against his own body.
006:019 Or do you not know that your bodies are a sanctuary
of the Holy Spirit who is within you--the Spirit whom you
have from God?
006:020 And you are not your own, for you have been redeemed at
infinite cost. Therefore glorify God in your bodies.
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