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5 It is heard certainly that there is sexual immorality among you - and such immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles - that one should have his father’s wife.

² And you are puffed up, and moreover have not mourned, that the one who has done this deed might be taken from among you.

³ For indeed, I, as being absent in body, but present in spirit, have determined already, as though I were present, that the one who has thus done this thing,

⁴ when you are gathered together - and my spirit, in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ - that such one, by the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

⁵ be delivered to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord Jesus.

⁶ Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

⁷ Therefore, purge the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, as you are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover, is sacrificed for us.

⁸ Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor in the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

⁹ I wrote to you in the epistle that you should not associate with the sexually immoral,

¹⁰ (that is not to say with the sexually immoral of this world, or with the covetous, or with swindlers, or with idolaters. For then you must go out of the world).

¹¹ But now I have written to you that you do not associate if anyone who is called a “brother” is a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a verbal abuser, or a drunkard, or a swindler. With such a one do not even eat.

¹² For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside?

¹³ But God judges those who are outside. Therefore, cast out the wicked from among yourselves.

6 Do any of you dare, when having business against another, to be judged by the unjust, and not by the Saints?

² Do you not know that the Saints shall judge the world? If the world then shall be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

³ Do you not know that we shall judge the angels? How much more so things that pertain to this life?

⁴ If then you have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set those up who are least-esteemed in the Church.

⁵ I speak this to your shame. Is it so that there is not a wise man among you? No, not one, who can judge between his brothers?

⁶ But a brother goes to law with a brother, and then before unbelievers!

⁷ Therefore, it is now a total defeat for you, that you go to law with one another. Rather, why do you not suffer wrong? Rather, why do you not sustain harm?

⁸ But, you yourselves do wrong, and do harm, and that to your brothers!

⁹ Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor catamites, nor homosexuals,

¹⁰ nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers shall inherit the Kingdom of God.

¹¹ And such were some of you. But you are washed. But you are sanctified. But you are justified, in the Name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

¹² All things are lawful to me. But all things are not profitable. I may do all things, but I will not be brought under the power of anything.

¹³ Foods for the belly, and the belly for the foods. But God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

¹⁴ And God has also raised up the Lord, and shall raise us up, by His power.

¹⁵ Do you not know that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them the members of a prostitute? Absolutely not!

¹⁶ Do you not know that he who couples himself with a prostitute is one body? For two, says He, shall be one flesh.

¹⁷ But the one who is joined to the Lord, is one spirit.

¹⁸ Flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is outside the body. But the one who commits fornication, sins against his own body.

¹⁹ Do you not know that your body is the Temple of the Holy Ghost, Who is in you; Whom you have from God? And you are not your own.

²⁰ For you are bought for a price. Therefore, glorify God in your body and in your spirit. For they are God’s.

7 Now, concerning the things about which you wrote to me, it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

² Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have a wife for himself, and let every woman have her own husband.

³ Let the husband give to the wife her due affection, and likewise also the wife to the husband.

⁴ The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband. And likewise, also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife.

⁵ Do not deprive one another, unless with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer. And come together again, so that Satan does not tempt you for your intemperance.

⁶ Yet, I speak this by permission, not by Commandment.

⁷ For I would that all were still as I myself. But everyone has his proper gift from God, one after this manner, and another after that.

⁸ Therefore I say to the unmarried, and to the widows, it is good for them if they remain just as I.

⁹ But if they cannot abstain, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn.

¹⁰ And to the married, I command: (not I, but the Lord) Let not the wife leave her husband.

¹¹ But if she does leave, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband. And let not the husband leave his wife.

¹² Now, to the rest I speak (I, not the Lord). If any brother has a wife who does not believe, if she is content to dwell with him, let him not leave her.

¹³ And the woman who has a husband who does not believe, if he is content to dwell with her, let her not leave him.

¹⁴ For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband, or else your children would be unclean. But now they are holy.

¹⁵ But, if the unbeliever leaves, let him leave. A brother or a sister is not in bondage in such cases. But God has called us into peace.

¹⁶ For how do you know, O wife, whether you shall save your husband? Or how do you know, O man, whether you shall save your wife?

¹⁷ But as God has distributed to everyone, as the Lord has called everyone, so let him walk. And so I ordain in all churches.

¹⁸ Is any man called circumcised? Let him not be uncircumcised. Is any called uncircumcised? Let him not be circumcised.

¹⁹ Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the Commandments of God.

²⁰ Let everyone remain in the same vocation to which he was called.

²¹ Are you called as a slave? Do not worry. But if you still may be free, rather use that.

²² For he who is called in the Lord as a slave is the Lord’s freeman. Likewise, he who is called in freedom, is Christ’s slave.

²³ You are bought with a price. Do not become the slaves of man.

²⁴ Brothers, let everyone, wherein he was called, remain therein with God.

²⁵ Now concerning virgins, I have no Commandment of the Lord. But I give my advice, as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be faithful.

²⁶ Because of this present constraint, I assume that it is good, and that it is good for anyone to be so.

²⁷ Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be free. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek a wife.

²⁸ But if you take a wife, you do not sin. And if a virgin marries, she does not sin. Nevertheless, such shall have trouble in the flesh. But I am sparing you.

²⁹ And this I say, brothers, because the time is short: that from now on those who have wives should be as though they had none,

³⁰ and those who weep as though they did not weep, and those who rejoice as though they did not rejoice, and those who buy as though they did not possess,

³¹ and those who use this world as though they do not abuse it. For the appearance of this world is passing away.

³² And I would have you without cares. The unmarried cares for things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord.

³³ But he who is married cares for the things of the world, how he may please his wife.

³⁴ Also, there is difference between a virgin and a wife. The unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy, both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

³⁵ And this I speak for your own benefit. Not to tangle you in a snare, but that you may be respectable and serve the Lord without distraction.

³⁶ But if any man thinks he is behaving less than optimally toward his virgin, if she has passed the flower of her age, and so requires, let him do what he will. He does not sin. Let her be married.

³⁷ Nevertheless, he who stands firm in his heart, that he has no need, but has power over his own will, and has so decreed in his heart, that he will watch over his virgin, he does well.

³⁸ So then, he who gives her to marriage, does well. But he who does not give her to marriage, does better.

³⁹ The wife is bound by the law, as long as her husband lives. But if her husband is dead, she is free to marry whomever she wishes, only in the Lord.

⁴⁰ But she is more blessed if she so remains, in my judgment. And I think that I also have the Spirit of God.

8 And concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.

² Now, if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know.

³ But if anyone loves God, he is known by Him.

⁴ Therefore, concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

⁵ For though there are those that are called gods, whether in Heaven or on Earth (as there are many gods, and many lords.)

⁶ Yet to us there is but one God, the Father (from Whom are all things, and we are in Him), and one Lord Jesus Christ, (through Whom are all things, and we are through Him).

⁷ But not everyone has that knowledge. For some, being conscience of the idol until now, eat as though sacrificing to an idol. And so, their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

⁸ But food does not make us commendable to God. For we are neither more so if we eat it, nor less so if we do not eat it.

⁹ But take heed, lest by any means this power of yours become a stumbling block to those who are weak.

¹⁰ For if anyone sees you, who has knowledge, sit at table in the idols’ temple, shall not his conscience, which is weak, be emboldened to eat those things which are sacrificed to idols?

¹¹ And through your knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died.

¹² Now when you sin so against the brothers, and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

¹³ So if food offends my brother, I will eat no flesh while the world stands, that I may not offend my brother.