Give Thanks to the Lord

Of David.

Salvation for Foreigners

³³ Oh, the depth of the riches and ^(A)wisdom and knowledge of God! ^(B)How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!

³⁶ For ^(F)from him and through him and to him are all things. ^(G)To him be glory forever. Amen.

A Living Sacrifice

12 ^(H)I appeal to you therefore, brothers,^[a] by the mercies of God, ^(I)to present your bodies ^(J)as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.^{[b] 2 (K)}Do not be conformed to this world,^[c] but be transformed by ^(L)the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may ^(M)discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.^[d]

Gifts of Grace

³ For ^(N)by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you ^(O)not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, ^(P)each according to ^(Q)the measure of faith that God has assigned. ⁴ For ^(R)as in one body we have many members,^[e] and the members do not all have the same function, ⁵ so we, ^(S)though many, ^(T)are one body in Christ, and individually ^(U)members one of another. ^6 (V)Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if ^(W)prophecy, ^(X)in proportion to our faith; ⁷ if ^(Y)service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching; ⁸ the one who exhorts, in his exhortation; the one who contributes, in generosity; ^(Z)the one who leads,^[f] with zeal; the one who does acts of mercy, with ^(AA)cheerfulness.

Sexual Immorality Defiles the Church

5 It is actually reported that there is ^(A)sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, ^(B)for a man has his father's wife. ² And ^(C)you are arrogant! Ought you ^(D)not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you.

³ For though ^(E)absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing. ⁴ When you are assembled ^(F)in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus, ⁵ you are ^(G)to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so ^(H)that his spirit may be saved ^(I)in the day of the Lord.^[a]

^6 (J)Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that ^(K)a little leaven leavens the whole lump? ⁷ Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. ⁸ Let us therefore celebrate the festival, ^(L)not with the old leaven, ^(M)the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

⁹ I wrote to you in my letter ^(N)not to associate with sexually immoral people— ^10 (O)not at all meaning ^(P)the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, ^(Q)since then you would need to go out of the world. ¹¹ But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone ^(R)who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat with such a one. ¹² For what have I to do with judging ^(S)outsiders? ^(T)Is it not those inside the church^[b] whom you are to judge? ¹³ God judges^[c] those outside. ^(U)“Purge the evil person from among you.”