1 Corinthians 6
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Gives warning against going to law in heathen courts
Verse 1
WEB Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?
KJV Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?
TSK having: mt 18:15-17, ac 18:14,15, ac 19:38; go: 1co 6:6,7; the saints: 1co 1:2, 1co 14:33, 1co 16:1,15
Verse 2
WEB 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?
KJV Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
TSK the saints: ps 49:14, ps 149:5-9, da 7:18,22, zec 14:5, mt 19:28, lu 22:30, 1th 3:13, jude 1:14,15, re 2:26,27, re 3:21, re 20:4; the smallest: 1co 6:4, 2co 4:18, 1jo 2:16,17
Verse 5
WEB 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?
KJV I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?
TSK to your: 1co 4:14, 1co 11:14, 1co 15:34; Is it: 1co 3:18, 1co 4:10, pr 14:8, jas 1:5, jas 3:13-18
Verse 6
WEB But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers!
KJV But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.
TSK brother: 1co 6:1,7, ge 13:7-9, ge 45:24, ne 5:8,9, ps 133:1-3, ac 7:26, php 2:14,15, 1jo 2:9-11, 1jo 3:11-15
Verse 7
WEB 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?
KJV Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?
TSK there: pr 2:5,8-10, ho 10:2, jas 4:1-3; Why: pr 20:22, mt 5:39-41, lu 6:29, ro 12:17-19, 1th 5:15, 1pe 2:19-23, 1pe 3:9
Sins which, if lived and died in, shut out from the kingdom of God
Verse 9
WEB Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,
KJV Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
TSK Know: 1co 6:2,3,15,16,19, 1co 3:16, 1co 9:24; unrighteous: ex 23:1, le 19:15,35,36, de 25:13-16, pr 11:1, pr 22:8, isa 10:1,2, isa 55:7, zec 5:3, ac 24:25, ro 1:18, 1ti 1:9; inherit: 1co 6:10, 1co 15:50, mt 19:29, mt 25:34, ga 5:21; fornicators: 1co 5:1,10, ga 5:19-21, eph 5:4,5, 1ti 1:9, heb 12:14,16, heb 13:4, re 21:8, re 22:15; abusers: ge 19:5, le 18:22, le 20:13, de 22:5, de 23:17, jud 19:22, ro 1:26,27, 1ti 1:10
Verse 10
WEB nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortioners, will inherit the Kingdom of God.
KJV Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
TSK thieves: ps 50:17,18, isa 1:23, jer 7:11, eze 22:13,27,29, mt 21:19, mt 23:14,33, joh 12:6, eph 4:28, 1th 4:6, 1pe 4:15; covetous: 1co 5:11
Verse 11
WEB Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.
KJV And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
TSK such: 1co 12:2, ro 6:17-19, eph 2:1-3, eph 4:17-22, eph 5:8, col 3:5-7, tit 3:3-6, 1pe 4:2,3; but ye are washed: ps 51:2,7, pr 30:12, isa 1:16, jer 4:14, eze 36:25, joh 13:10, ac 22:16, eph 5:26, tit 3:5, heb 10:22, 1pe 3:21, re 1:5, re 7:14; but ye are sanctified: 1co 1:2,30, ac 26:18, ga 5:22,23, 2th 2:13, heb 2:11, 1pe 1:2,22; but ye are justified: isa 45:25, isa 53:11, lu 18:14, ac 13:39, ro 3:24,26-30, ro 4:5, ro 5:1,9, ro 8:30,33, ga 2:16, ga 3:8,11,24, tit 3:7, jas 2:21-26
Our bodies, which are the members of Christ, and temples of the Holy Ghost, must not be defiled
Verse 12
WEB “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.
KJV All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
TSK things are lawful: 1co 10:23, ro 14:14; are not: 1co 8:4,7-13, 1co 9:12, 1co 10:24-33, ro 14:15-23, 2th 3:9; but I: 1co 9:27, ro 7:14, heb 12:15,16, jude 1:12
Verse 13
WEB “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.
KJV Meats for the belly, and the belly for 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.
TSK Meats for: mt 15:17,20, mr 7:19, ro 14:17; but God: 1co 10:3-5, joh 6:27,49, col 2:22,23; but for: 1co 6:15,19, 1co 3:16, ro 6:12, ro 7:4, ro 12:1, ro 14:7-9, 2co 5:15, 2co 11:2, eph 5:23, 1th 4:3-7
Verse 14
WEB Now God raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his power.
KJV And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.
TSK God: 1co 15:15-20, ac 2:24, ac 17:31, ro 6:4-8, ro 8:11, 2co 4:14, php 3:10,11, 1th 4:14; by: joh 5:28,29, joh 6:39,40, joh 11:25,26, eph 1:19,20, php 3:21
Verse 15
WEB 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!
KJV 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.
TSK your: 1co 6:19, 1co 11:3, 1co 12:27, ro 12:5, eph 1:22,23, eph 4:12,15,16, eph 5:23,30, col 2:19; God: ge 44:17, lu 20:16, ro 3:3,4,6,31, ro 6:2,15, ro 7:7,13, ga 2:17, ga 3:21, ga 6:14
Verse 16
WEB Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two,” says he, “will become one flesh.”
KJV What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
TSK an harlot: ge 34:31, ge 38:15,24, jud 16:1, mt 21:31,32, heb 11:31; for: ge 2:24, mt 19:5,6, mr 10:8, eph 5:31
Verse 18
WEB Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
KJV Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
TSK Flee: ge 39:12-18, pr 2:16-19, pr 5:3-15, pr 6:24-32, pr 7:5-23,24-27, pr 9:16-18, ro 6:12,13, 2ti 2:22, heb 13:4, 1pe 2:11; sinneth: ro 1:24, 1th 4:5
Verse 19
WEB Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,
KJV What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
TSK What: 1co 6:15,16; your body: 1co 3:16, 2co 6:16, eph 2:21,22, 1pe 2:5; and ye: 1ki 20:4, 1ch 29:14, ps 12:4, ps 100:3, ro 14:7-9, 2co 5:15, tit 2:14
Verse 20
WEB for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.
KJV For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
TSK ye: 1co 7:23, ac 20:28, ga 3:13, heb 9:12, 1pe 1:18, 2pe 2:1, re 5:9; God: 1co 10:31, mt 5:16, ro 6:19, ro 12:1, php 1:20, 1pe 2:9