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So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.
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For we are co-workers in God’s service; you are God’s field, God’s building.
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By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as a wise builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should build with care.
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Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst?
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If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is sacred, and you together are that temple.
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For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness”;
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and you are of Christ, and Christ is of God.
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The Nature of True Apostleship
This, then, is how you ought to regard us: as servants of Christ and as those entrusted with the mysteries God has revealed.
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Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of the heart. At that time each will receive their praise from God.
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For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on display at the end of the procession, like those condemned to die in the arena. We have been made a spectacle to the whole universe, to angels as well as to human beings.
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For the kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power.
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God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked person from among you.”
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Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men
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nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
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And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
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You say, “Food for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will destroy them both.” The body, however, is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
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By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also.
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Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;
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you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.
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I wish that all of you were as I am. But each of you has your own gift from God; one has this gift, another has that.
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But if the unbeliever leaves, let it be so. The brother or the sister is not bound in such circumstances; God has called us to live in peace.
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Concerning Change of Status
Nevertheless, each person should live as a believer in whatever situation the Lord has assigned to them, just as God has called them. This is the rule I lay down in all the churches.
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Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Keeping God’s commands is what counts.
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Each person should remain in the situation they were in when God called them.
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Brothers and sisters, each person, as responsible to God, should remain in the situation they were in when God called them.
