1 Corinthians 6:7-17

7 The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means you have been completely defeated already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?
8 Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, and you do this to your brothers and sisters.
9 Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men[a]
10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
11 And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

Sexual Immorality

12 “I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but I will not be mastered by anything.
13 You say, “Food for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will destroy them both.” The body, however, is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
14 By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also.
15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!
16 Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.”[b]
17 But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit.[c]

Cross References 19

  • 1. Matthew 5:39,40
  • 2. 1 Thessalonians 4:6
  • 3. S Matthew 25:34; Galatians 5:21
  • 4. Job 13:9; 1 Corinthians 15:33; Galatians 6:7; James 1:16
  • 5. Leviticus 18:20; Deuteronomy 22:22
  • 6. Leviticus 18:22
  • 7. 1 Timothy 1:10; Revelation 21:8; Revelation 22:15
  • 8. S Ephesians 2:2
  • 9. S Acts 22:16
  • 10. 1 Corinthians 1:2
  • 11. S Romans 4:25
  • 12. 1 Corinthians 10:23
  • 13. Colossians 2:22
  • 14. ver 15,19; Romans 12:1
  • 15. S Acts 2:24
  • 16. S Romans 6:5; Ephesians 1:19,20; 1 Thessalonians 4:16
  • 17. S Romans 12:5
  • 18. Genesis 2:24; Matthew 19:5; Ephesians 5:31
  • 19. John 17:21-23; Romans 8:9-11; Galatians 2:20

Footnotes 3

  • [a]. The words "men who have sex with men" translate two Greek words that refer to the passive and active participants in homosexual acts.
  • [b]. Gen. 2:24
  • [c]. Or "in the Spirit"
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