Chronological
5 1 That they have winked at him who committed incest with his mother-in-law, 2, 6 he showeth should cause them rather to be ashamed, than to rejoice: 10 Such kind of wickedness is to be punished with excommunication, 12 lest others be infected with it.
1 It [a]is heard certainly that there is fornication among you: and such fornication as is not once named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife.
2 [b]And ye are puffed up, and have not rather sorrowed, that he which hath done this deed, might be put from among you.
3 [c]For I verily as absent in body, but present in [d]spirit, have determined already as though I were present, that he that hath thus done this thing,
4 When ye are gathered together, and my spirit, in the [e]Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that such one, I say, [f]by the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
5 [g]Be [h]delivered unto Satan, for the [i]destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
6 [j]Your rejoicing [k]is not good: know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
7 [l]Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new [m]lump, as ye are unleavened: for Christ our [n]Passover is sacrificed for us.
8 Therefore let us keep the [o]feast, not with old leaven, neither in the leaven of maliciousness and wickedness: but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
9 [p]I wrote unto you in an Epistle, that ye should not company together with fornicators,
10 And not [q]altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or with extortioners, or with idolaters: for then ye must go out of the world.
11 But now I have written unto you, that ye company not together: if any that is called a brother, be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner, with such one eat not.
12 [r]For what have I to do to judge them also which are without? do ye not judge them that are within?
13 But God judgeth them that are without. Put away therefore from among yourselves that wicked man.
6 1 He inveigheth against their contention in law matters, 6 wherewith they vexed one another under judges that were infidels, to the reproach of the Gospel, 9 and then sharply threateneth fornicators.
1 Dare [s][t]any of you, having business against another, be judged [u]under the unjust, [v]and not under the Saints?
2 [w]Do ye not know that the Saints shall judge the world? If the world then shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
3 Know ye not that we shall judge the Angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?
4 [x]If then ye have [y]judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them up which are [z]least esteemed in the Church.
5 [aa]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 [ab]Now therefore there is altogether [ac]infirmity in you, that ye go to law one with another: (A)[ad]why rather suffer ye not wrong? why rather sustain ye not harm?
8 (B)Nay, ye yourselves do wrong, and do harm, and that to your brethren.
9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? [ae]Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor wantons, nor buggerers,
10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor railers, nor extortioners shall inherit the kingdom of God.
11 And such were (C)some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified, in the [af]Name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
12 ¶ (D)[ag][ah]All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not profitable. I may do all things, but I will not be brought under the [ai]power of any thing.
13 [aj]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 fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
14 And God hath also raised up the Lord, and (E)shall raise us up by his power.
15 [ak]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 harlot? God forbid.
16 [al]Do ye not know, that he which coupleth himself with an harlot, is one body? (F)for [am]two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
17 But he that is joined unto the Lord, is one spirit.
18 [an]Flee fornication: every sin that a man doeth, is without the body: but he that commiteth fornication, sinneth against his own body.
19 [ao]Know ye not, that (G)your body is the temple of the holy Ghost, which is in you, whom ye have of God? and [ap]ye are not your own.
20 (H)For ye are bought for a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit: for they are God’s.
7 Entreating here of marriage, 4 which is a remedy against fornication, 10 and may not be broken, 18, 20 he willeth every man to live contented with his lot. 25 He showeth what the end of virginity should be, 35 and who ought to marry.
1 Now [aq]concerning the things [ar]whereof ye wrote unto me, It were [as]good for a man not to touch a woman.
2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
3 (I)[at]Let the husband give unto the wife [au]due benevolence, and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
4 [av]The wife hath not the power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not the power of his own body, but the wife.
5 Defraud not one another, [aw]except it be with consent for a time, that ye may [ax]give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and again come together, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
6 [ay]But I speak this by permission, not by commandment.
7 For I [az]would that all men were even as I myself am: but every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
8 [ba]Therefore I say unto the [bb]unmarried, and unto the widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I do.
9 But if they cannot abstain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to [bc]burn.
10 (J)[bd]And unto the married I command, not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband.
11 But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled unto her husband, and let not the husband put away his wife.
12 [be]But to the remnant I speak, and not the Lord, If any brother have a wife that believeth not, if she be content to dwell with him, let him not forsake her.
13 And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, if he be content to dwell with her, let her not forsake him.
14 [bf]For the unbelieving husband is [bg]sanctified to the [bh]wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified to the [bi]husband, else were your children unclean: but now are they [bj]holy.
15 [bk]But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart: a brother or a sister is not in subjection in [bl]such things: [bm]but God hath called us in peace.
16 For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thine husband? Or what knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?
17 [bn]But as God hath distributeth to every man, as the Lord [bo]hath called every one, so let him walk: and so ordain I in all Churches.
18 [bp]Is any man called being circumcised? let him not [bq]gather his uncircumcision: 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 (K)Let every man abide in the same vocation wherein he was called.
21 Art thou called being a servant? [br]care not for it: but if yet thou mayest be free, use it rather.
22 For he that is called in the [bs]Lord, being a servant, is the Lord’s freeman: likewise also he that is called being free, is Christ’s servant.
23 (L)[bt]Ye are bought with a price: be not the servants of men.
24 [bu]Brethren, let every man, wherein he was called, therein abide with [bv]God.
25 [bw]Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord: but I give mine [bx]advise, as [by]one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.
26 I suppose then [bz]this to be good for the [ca]present necessity: I mean that it is good for a man so to be.
27 Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed: art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
28 But if thou takest a wife, thou sinnest not: and if a virgin marry, she sinneth not: nevertheless, such shall have trouble in the [cb]flesh: but I [cc]spare you.
29 And this I say, brethren, because the time is [cd]short, hereafter that both they which have wives, be as though they had none:
30 And they that [ce]weep, as though they wept not: and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not: and they that buy, as though they possessed not:
31 And they that use this [cf]world, as though they used it not: for the [cg]fashion of this world goeth away.
32 And I would have you without care. The unmarried careth for things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord.
33 But he that is married, [ch]careth for the things of the world, how he may please his wife.
34 There is difference also between a virgin and a wife: the unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy, both in body and in [ci]spirit: but she that is married, careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
35 And this I speak for your own [cj]commodity, not to tangle you in a snare, but that ye follow that which is honest, and that ye may cleave fast unto the Lord without separation.
36 [ck]But if any man think that it is uncomely for his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he [cl]sinneth not: let them be married.
37 Nevertheless, he that standeth firm in his [cm]heart, that he hath no [cn]need, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart, that he will keep his virgin, he doeth well.
38 So then he that giveth her to marriage, doeth well, but he that giveth her not to marriage, doeth [co]better.
39 [cp]The wife is bound by the [cq]law, as long as her husband (M)liveth: but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to marry with whom she will, only in the [cr]Lord.
40 But she is more blessed, if she so abide in my judgment: (N)and I think that I have also the Spirit of God.
8 1 From this place unto the end of the tenth Chapter, he willeth them not to be at the Gentiles’ profane banquets. 13 He restraineth the abuse of Christian liberty, 11 and showeth that knowledge must be tempered with charity.
1 And as [cs]touching things sacrificed unto idols, we know that we [ct]all have knowledge: knowledge [cu]puffeth up, but love [cv]edifieth.
2 Now, if any man think that he knoweth anything, he knoweth nothing, yet as he ought to know.
3 But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
4 [cw]Concerning therefore the eating of things sacrificed unto [cx]idols, we know that an idol is [cy]nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.
5 For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven, or in earth (as there be many gods, and many lords.)
6 Yet unto us there is but one God, which is that Father, [cz]of whom are all things, and we [da]in him, and (O)[db]one Lord Jesus Christ, [dc]by whom are all things, and we by him.
7 [dd]But every man hath not that knowledge: for [de]many having [df]conscience of the idol, until this hour, eat as a thing sacrificed unto the idol, and so their conscience being weak, is defiled.
8 [dg]But meat maketh us not acceptable to God, for neither if we eat, have we the more: neither if we eat not, have we the less.
9 But take heed lest by any means this power of yours be an occasion of falling, to them that are weak.
10 [dh]For if any man see thee which hast knowledge, sit at table in the idols’ temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak, be boldened, to eat those things which are sacrificed to idols?
11 [di]And through thy knowledge shall the (P)weak brother perish, for whom Christ died.
12 [dj]Now when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.
13 (Q)[dk]Wherefore if meat offend my brother, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, that I may not offend my brother.
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