Twentieth Century [1904], THE TWENTIETH CENTURY NEW TESTAMENT A TRANSLATION INTO MODERN ENGLISH Made from the Original Greek (Westcott & Hort's Text) (The Fleming H. Revell Company, NEW YORK & CHICAGO) [word count] [B14200].
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1 Can it be that, when one of you has a dispute
with another, he dares to have his case tried
before the heathen, instead of before Christ's
People?
2 Do not you know that Christ's People will try the
world? And if the world is to be tried by you, are you unfit
to try the most trivial cases?
3 Do not you know that we are
to try angels—to say nothing of the affairs of this life?
4 Why,
then, if you have cases relating to the affairs of this life, do
you set to try them men who carry no weight with the
Church?
5 To your shame I ask it. Can it be that there is
not one man among you wise enough to decide between two
of his Brothers?
6 Must Brother go to law with Brother, and
that, too, before unbelievers?
7 To begin with, it is undoubtedly
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a loss to you to have lawsuits with one another. Why not
rather let yourselves be wronged? Why not rather let
yourselves be cheated?
8 Instead of this, you wrong and
cheat others yourselves—yes, even your Brothers!
9 Do not
you know that wrong-doers will have no share in God's
Kingdom? ⪆⪆Do not be deceived. No one who is
immoral, or an idolater, or an adulterer, or licentious, or a
sodomite,
10 or a thief, or covetous, or a drunkard, or abusive, or
grasping, will have any share in God's Kingdom. ⪆⪆
11 Such
some of you used to be; but you washed yourselves clean!
you became Christ's People! you were pronounced righteous
through the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and through the
Spirit of our God!
note
12 Everything is allowable for me! Yes, but everything
is not profitable. Everything is allowable
for me! Yes, but for my part, I will not let myself
be enslaved by anything.
13 Food exists for the stomach, and
the stomach for food; but God will put an end to both the
one and the other. The body, however, exists, not for immorality,
but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;
14 and, as
God has raised the Lord, so he will raise up us also by the
exercise of his power.
15 Do not you know that your bodies are
Christ's members? Am I, then, to take the members that
belong to the Christ and make them the members of a prostitute?
16 Heaven forbid! Or do not you know that a man who unites
himself with a prostitute is one with her in body (for ‘the two,’
it is said, ‘will become one’); note
17 while a man who is united with
the Lord is one with him in spirit?
18 Shun all immorality.
Every other sin that men commit is something outside the
body; but an immoral man sins against his own body.
19 Again, do not you know that your body is a shrine of the Holy
Spirit that is within you—the Spirit which you have from
God?
20 Moreover, you are not your own masters; you were
bought, and the price was paid. Therefore, honour God in
your bodies.
Twentieth Century [1904], THE TWENTIETH CENTURY NEW TESTAMENT A TRANSLATION INTO MODERN ENGLISH Made from the Original Greek (Westcott & Hort's Text) (The Fleming H. Revell Company, NEW YORK & CHICAGO) [word count] [B14200].
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