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The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians

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- Kapitel 6 -

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When you have a dispute with another believer, you should not have the audacity to take that matter before a civil judge who is not a believer. Take the matter to fellow believers, whom God has set apart for himself.
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You should know that we who belong to God will judge the world. If you will judge the world one day, you should be able to settle matters that are less important.
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You should know that you will judge angels! Certainly you are able to judge matters in this life.
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And if you can settle matters that are important in this life, you should not find it necessary to hand off disputes between Messianics to be settled by unbelievers.
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I say this to show how you have disgraced yourselves. There certainly must be someone in the church who is sensible enough to settle these disputes when these sort of cases come up between Christian brothers and sisters.
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But instead, some believers among you accuse other believers in a civil court and you allow a judge who is an unbeliever to settle the matter!
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When you have any disputes between one another it means that you have not done what you should have done. Allow a brother or sister to take advantage of you rather than you take them to court.
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Instead, you have wronged and cheated others, and the ones you cheated are your own brothers and sisters.

Members of Christ

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Surely you understand that the wicked will not come under God’s rule. Do not believe them when they tell you otherwise. The truth is that the sexually immoral, those who worship anything or anyone other than God, those who break their marriage vows, those who engage in perverse acts of so-called worship involving sex, and those who engage in the practice of homosexuality,
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those who steal, the ones who are greedy for more, those who get drunk, those who tell lies about others, and those who trick and cheat to steal from others, these will never come under God’s rule.
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Some of you used to do these things. But God has made you clean from your sins, he has set you apart for himself, and he has made you right with himself. He has done all this through the power of the Lord Jesus Christ and the Spirit of our God.
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Some say this: “I am free to do anything I want, because I am joined to Messiah.” Yes, but because something is permitted does not mean it is good for me. “I am free to do anything I want”, but I will not allow anything to become my master.
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People also say, “Food is made for a person’s body to digest, and a person’s body is made to digest food”, but God will soon do away with both food and the body’s normal functions. Of course, they are really talking about having sex with people. However, God did not make our bodies so we could be sexually immoral. But the body is to serve the Lord, and the Lord will provide for the body.
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God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will also raise us up by his power to live again.
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You should know that your bodies are joined to Messiah. Should you take away that which is a part of Messiah and join it together with a prostitute? Never!
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You understand that anyone who has sex with a prostitute becomes united with her. It is like the scriptures say about marriage: “The two will become one.”
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And those who are joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him.

The Temple of the Holy Spirit

(Romans 12:1–8; 1 Corinthians 3:16–23)
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So when you want to commit a sexual sin, run away from it as quickly as you can! People say, “Every sin that a person commits is committed outside the body”, except that when one sins sexually, he sins against his own body.
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You should know that your body is a dwelling place, a temple of the Holy Spirit within you. God gave you his Spirit and now you no longer belong to yourself. Instead, you belong to God.
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God purchased you with the price of his Son’s life. Therefore honor God in all you do in your human body.
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Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?
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Don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
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Don’t you know that we will judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life?
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If then you have to judge things pertaining to this life, do you set them to judge who are of no account in the assembly?
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I say this to move you to shame. Isn’t there even one wise man among you who would be able to decide between his brothers?
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But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers!
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Therefore it is already altogether a defect in you that you have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?
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No, but you yourselves do wrong and defraud, and that against your brothers.

Members of Christ

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Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,
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nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom.
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Some of you were such, but you were washed. You were sanctified. You were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.
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All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are expedient. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be brought under the power of anything.
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Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
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Now God raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his power.
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Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!
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Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two”, he says, “will become one flesh.”(a)
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But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.

The Temple of the Holy Spirit

(Romans 12:1–8; 1 Corinthians 3:16–23)
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Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
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Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
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for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

Fußnoten

(a)6:16 ℘ Genesis 2:24