8 3:16Know you not that you are a temple of God and the Spirit of God dwells in you? 3:17If any one destroys the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God which you are is holy. 3:18Let no one deceive himself; if any one seems to be wise among you in this life, let him be a fool, that he may be wise. 3:19For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written; He takes the wise in their craftiness. 3:20And again; The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise that they are vain. 3:21Let no one therefore glory in men; for all things are yours, 3:22whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come, all are yours, 3:23and you Christ's, and Christ God's.
9 4:1Let a man so regard us as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. 4:2But, moreover, it is required of stewards that one should be found faithful. 4:3But it is of little account to me that I should be judged by you or by man's day [judgment]; but I judge not myself; 4:4for I am not conscious to myself [of wrong], but I am not on this account justified; but he that judges me is the Lord. 4:5Judge nothing therefore before the time, till the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden deeds of darkness, and make known the purposes of the hearts; and then shall each one have praise from God.
10 4:6I have applied these things figuratively, brothers, to myself and Apollos on your account, that you may learn by us not to [go beyond] what is written, that you may not be puffed up for one against another. 4:7For who made you to differ? And what have you that you did not receive? And if you received, why do you boast as one that receives not? 4:8You are already full, you are already enriched; you have reigned without us; and I would that you did reign, that we also might reign with you. 4:9For I think that God has shown us the apostles last, as devoted to death, for we have been made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men. 4:10For we are foolish for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; and you are glorious, but we are infamous. 4:11Even to this hour we suffer hunger and thirst and nakedness, and are beaten, and are unsettled, 4:12and labor, working with our hands; being reviled we bless, being persecuted we endure, 4:13being defamed we entreat; we are made like the offscouring of the world and the vilest of all things, even till now.
11 4:14I write these things not to shame you, but as my beloved children, I admonish you. 4:15For if you have ten thousand teachers in Christ still you have not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you by the gospel. 4:16I exhort you therefore, be followers of me. 4:17For this reason I sent you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful son in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach everywhere, in every church. 4:18Some are puffed up as though I would not come to you; 4:19but I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know not the word of those who are puffed up but the power; 4:20for the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power. 4:21What do you wish? shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of meekness?
CHAPTER II.
INCEST, LITIGATION, EXPEDIENCY, AND CHASTITY.
1 5:1IT is commonly reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not among the gentiles, that a man should have his father's wife. 5:2And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who has done this deed should be removed from among you. 5:3For I indeed as absent in body, but present in spirit, have already judged as present him that has so done this, 5:4in the name of our Lord Jesus you being assembled together and my spirit with the power of our Lord Jesus 5:5to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord. 5:6Your rejoicing is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole mass? 5:7Remove the old leaven, that you may be a new mass, as you are unleavened; for Christ our passover was also sacrificed for us. 5:8Let us therefore keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with a leaven of vice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
2 5:9I wrote to you in the epistle not to associate with fornicators; 5:10not altogether the fornicators of this world, or the covetous and rapacious, or idolaters, since then you would have to go out of the world. 5:11But now I have written to you not to associate, if any one called a brother is a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or rapacious, even to eat with such a one. 5:12For what business have I to judge those without? Do you not judge those within? 5:13but those without, God judges. Remove therefore the evil man from among you.
3 6:1Dare any of you having a business with another be judged by the wicked, and not by the saints? 6:2Do you not know that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy of the lowest courts? 6:3Know you not that we shall judge angels? Much more then things pertaining to this life? 6:4If then you have courts for the business of this life, do you constitute them of the most abject in the church? 6:5I speak to your shame. Is there not now a wise man among you? not one who can judge between his brothers? 6:6But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers. 6:7Now therefore there is a great fault among you, that you go to law one with another. Why not rather suffer injustice? why not rather be defrauded? 6:8But you injure and defraud, and that your brothers. 6:9Know you not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor sodomites, 6:10nor thieves, nor covetous persons, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor the rapacious, shall inherit the kingdom of God. 6:11And such were some of you; but you are washed, you are sanctified, but you are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
4 6:12All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient; all things are lawful, but I will not be brought under the power of any. 6:13Food for the stomach, and the stomach for food; but God will destroy both it and them. And the body is not for fornication but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body; 6:14and God both raised the Lord, and will raise us up by his power. 6:15Know you not that your bodies are Christ's members? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them a harlot's members? by no means. 6:16Know you not that he who is joined to a harlot is one body [with her]? For the two, says he, shall be one flesh. 6:17But he that is joined to the Lord is one spirit [with him]. 6:18Avoid fornication. Every crime that a man commits is out of his body; but he that commits fornication sins in his body. 6:19Know you not that your bodies are a temple of the Holy Spirit in you which you have from God, and you are not your own? 6:20For you are bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body.