6:1Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the
unjust, and not before the saints?
(6:1-7) "Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the
unjust, and not before the saints?"
A believer should not sue another believer in court.
(6:1-7) Jehovah's
Witnesses believe that they should not take another member of their
church to court. Consequently, JWs who report incidents of sex abuse are often disfellowshipped.
6:2Do 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?
6:3Know ye not that we
shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?
6:4
If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to
judge who are least esteemed in the church.
6:5I 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?
6:6But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.
6:7Now 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?
6:8
Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.
6:9
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,
(6:9-10)
Paul lists ten groups of people who will never enter heaven. These include thieves, along with
the "effeminate" and
"abusers of themselves with mankind." Can thieves go to heaven?
6:10Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners,shall inherit the kingdom of
God.
6:11
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.
6:12All 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.
"All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any."
Everything is lawful to Paul, and he submits
himself to no law.
6:13
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.
6:14
And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own
power.
6:15
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.
(6:15-16) "Shall I then take the
members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot?"
Paul asks if he should "take the
members of Christ, and make them members of an harlot?" He further asks,
"Know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body?"
6:16What? know ye not that
he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be
one flesh.
6:17
But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
6:18
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he
that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
6:19
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?
6:20
For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in
your spirit, which are God's.
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