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1 COR. PUT AWAY THE WICKED THING. 5:9.

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I wrote to you, in my former letter, not to associate with immoral persons. I did not at all refer to men of the world who are immoral, or who are covetous, or grasping, or are idolaters. For then you would have to go out of the world altogether. But what I meant was that you are not to associate with any one who bears the name of a brother, if he is immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or abusive, or a drunkard, or grasping,-with such a person, no, not even to eat with him. For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not for you to judge those who are within? But outsiders, God judges.

Put away the wicked thing from among you.

Does any of you who has a dispute with another dare to carry the case before heathen judges and not before those devoted to the cause of Christ? Or, do you not know that those devoted to Christ are to be the judges of the world? And, if the world is to be judged by you, are you not fit to render the most trivial judgments? Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, things relating to this life? So, then,

if

you have cases relating to this life, why do you set those who have no standing with the Church to judge them? It is to your shame I have to say this. So there is not a wise man among you who

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is able to decide between his brothers? On the contrary, brother must go to law with brother and that, too, before unbelievers? So you are already decidedly at fault because you have disputes among yourselves at all. Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be cheated? But, instead of this, you yourselves are doing wrong and cheating, and that, your brothers.

Do you not know that wrong-doers

Will have no share in God's Kingdom?

Do not deceive yourselves.

No immoral person, nor idolater, nor adulterer,

Nor catamite, nor sodomite,

Nor thief, nor covetous person,

Nor drunkard, nor abusive person,

Nor grasper,

Will have any share in the Kingdom of God.

And such kinds of people

Some of you used to be.

But you washed yourselves clean.

But you dedicated yourselves to Christ;

But you were set right;

In the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord,

And in the Spirit of our God.

Everything is lawful for me.

1 COR. 6:12.

THE TWO WILL BECOME ONE.

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But not everything is to a man's advantage.
Everything is lawful for me.

But I, for my part, will not allow myself to be made a slave by anything.

Different kinds of foods for the stomach and the stomach for different kinds of foods.

But God is going to put an end to both it and them.

Now the body is not for immoral purposes, but, on the contrary, for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. And God both raised up the Lord and he is going to raise us up by means of his power. Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I, then, take the members of Christ and make them the members of a prostitute? By no means. Or, do you not know that he who unites himself to a prostitute is of one body with her? For it is said:

The two will become one flesh. But he who unites himself to the Lord is one spirit. Avoid immorality. Every other sin which. a man commits is outside the body.

moral man sins against his own body.

But the im

Do you not know that each of your bodies is a Holy Place of the Holy Spirit who is in you, and whom you have from God? And, besides this, you are not your For you were bought, and the price was paid. Honor God, then, in your bodies.

own.

Now, about what you wrote me.

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It is a noble thing for a man not to touch a woman. But because of the prevalence of immorality, let each man have his own wife and each woman her own husband. Let the husband give his wife her due, and the wife, in the same way also, her husband. The wife has no control over her own body. This belongs only to her husband. In the same way also, the husband has no control over his own body. This belongs to his wife. Do not withhold yourselves from each other, except by common consent for a time, so that you may have leisure for prayer, and then be together again, so that Satan may not tempt you by taking advantage of your want of self-control. Now I am saying this as a concession, not as a command. I wish every one were like myself. And yet each man has his own peculiar gift from God, one, of one kind, another, of another.

But

Now I say to those who are unmarried and to widows: It is noble for them to remain as I am myself. But if they cannot keep control of themselves, let them marry. For it is better to marry, than to keep burning with passion. But to those who are married, my direction is, and yet it is not mine, but the Lord's, a wife is not to be separated from her husband,-but if she has already been separated, let her remain unmarried, or be recon

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ciled to her husband,—and the husband is not to divorce his wife. To the rest it is I who speak, not the Lord: If a brother has an unbelieving wife and she is content to live with him, let him not divorce her. And if a woman has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not divorce him. For the unbelieving husband is devoted to God in his wife, and the unbelieving wife is devoted to God in our brother. For if this were not so, then your children would be unclean. But, as it is, they are devoted to God. Yet, if the unbeliever departs, let him depart. Under such circumstances, our brother or sister is not bound. And God has called us to live in peace. For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or, how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

And I am so arrangWas any one who was Let him not do away any one been called

Only let each one continue to live in that state of life to which the Lord has allotted him, and in which God has called him. ing it in all the Churches. already circumcised called? with his circumcision. Has when he was uncircumcised? circumcised. Circumcision is cumcision is nothing. But the commandments is everything. Let each one remain in the calling in which he was called. Were

Let him not become nothing, and uncir

keeping of God's

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