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1 Corinthians 6

1 He rebuketh them for going to law together before the Heathen 7 Christians ought rather to suffer. 22 He reproveth the abusing of Christian liberty, 25 And sheweth that we ought to serve God purely both in body, and in soul.
1.Dare any of you, having business against another, be judged under ^the aunjust, and not under the Saints?
2.*Do ye not know, that the Saints shall judge the world? If the world then shalbe judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
3.Know ye not that we shall judge the bAngels? how much more things that pertain to this life?
4.If then ye have judgements of things pertaining to this life, cset up them which are dleast esteemed in the Church.
5.I speak it to your shame. Is it so that there is not a wise man among you? no not one, that can judge between his brethren?
6.But a brother goeth to law with a brother, and that under the infidels.
7.Now therefore there is utterly ^a faute among you, because ye go to law one with another: *why rather suffer ye not wrong? why rather sustain ye not harm?
8.*Nay, ye your selves edo wrong, and do harm, and that to your brethren.
9.Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: *neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor wantons, nor bouggerers,
10.Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor railers, nor extortioners shall inherit the kingdom of God.
11.And such were *some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the Name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
12.*All fthings are lawful unto me: but all things are not profitable. I may do all things, but I will not be brought under gthe power of any thing.
13.Meats are ordained for the belly, and the belly for the meats: but God shall destroy both it, and them. Now the body is not for hfornication, but for the iLord, and the Lord for the body.
14.And God hath also raised up the Lord, and *shall raise us up by his power.
15.Know ye not, that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an kharlot? God forbid.
16.Do ye not know, that he which coupleth him self with an harlot, is one body? *for two, saith he, shalbe 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 lown body.
19.Know ye not, that *your body is the temple of the holie Ghost, which is in you, whom ye have of God? and ye are not your own.
20.*For ye are bought for a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit: for they are God’s.

Notes

1-^.
Or, judges and magistrates which are infidels.
1-a.
He calls them unjust, whosoever are not sanctified in Christ.
2-*.
Wis. 3.7.
3-b.
Who are now apostates and devils, Mat. 25.41.
4-c.
That is, make them judges.
4-d.
If you so burn with desire to plead, keep a court among yourselves, and make the least esteemed your judge: for it is most easy to judge between brethren.
7-*.
Mat. 5.39, Luk. 6.29, Rom. 12.19.
7-^.
Or, impotency of mind.
8-*.
1 Thes. 4.6.
8-e.
He does not reprove the godly, which with a good conscience use the magistrate to defend his right, but condemns hatred, grudges, and desires of revenge.
9-*.
Eph. 5.3, 1 Tim. 1.9.
11-*.
Eph. 2.12, Tit. 3.3, 1 Pet. 4.3.
12-*.
Chap. 10.23. Eccle. 37.30.
12-f.
Here he speaks of things indifferent of their nature, and first as touching carnal liberty.
12-g.
For we are subject to those things which we can not want.
13-h.
They abused meats, both in that they offended others thereby, and also provoked their own lusts to uncleanness.
13-i.
God will be Lord both of the soul and body.
14-*.
Rom. 6.5.
15-k.
Whereby he signifies, that both we shall see the glory of the resurrection of the just, and also that dignity, and privilege whereby we be made the members of Christ.
16-*.
Gen. 2.24, Mat. 19.5, Mar. 10.7, Eph. 5.31.
18-l.
That is, he more pollutes his own body, then he that commits any other sin.
19-*.
Chap. 3.17, 2 Cor. 6.16.
20-*.
Chap. 7.23, 1 Pet. 1,19.