Part 5

46:006:007 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?

46:006:008 Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.

46:006:009 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,

46:006:010 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

46:006:011 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.

46:006:012 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.

46:006:013 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.

46:006:014 And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.

46:006:015 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.

46:006:016 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

46:006:017 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

46:006:018 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

46:006:019 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?

46:006:020 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

46:007:001 Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

46:007:002 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

46:007:003 Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

46:007:004 The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.

46:007:005 Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.

46:007:006 But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.

46:007:007 For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.

46:007:008 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.

46:007:009 But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

46:007:010 And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:

46:007:011 But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.

46:007:012 But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.

46:007:013 And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.

46:007:014 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.