1 Corinthians 6
Lutheran reading notes
In 1 Corinthians chapter 6, the message of the gospel develops the theme of instruction for church life and unity in Christ. Lutheran interpretation frequently emphasizes the proclamation of Christ, the distinction between law and gospel, and the promise of justification through faith.
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Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?
1 Corinthians 6:1 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
2
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?
1 Corinthians 6:2 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
3
Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?
1 Corinthians 6:3 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.
1 Corinthians 6:4 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
5
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?
1 Corinthians 6:5 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.
1 Corinthians 6:6 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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?
1 Corinthians 6:7 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that {your} brethren.
1 Corinthians 6:8 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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,
1 Corinthians 6:9 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
1 Corinthians 6:10 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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.
1 Corinthians 6:11 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
12
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. {expedient: or, profitable}
1 Corinthians 6:12 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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. {Meats: not flesh only, but food of any kind}
1 Corinthians 6:13 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.
1 Corinthians 6:14 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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.
1 Corinthians 6:15 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
1 Corinthians 6:16 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
1 Corinthians 6:17 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
1 Corinthians 6:18 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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?
1 Corinthians 6:19 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
20
For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
1 Corinthians 6:20 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.