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1 Corinthians 6:15

New Century Version

Surely you know that your bodies are parts of Christ himself. So I must never take the parts of Christ and join them to a prostitute!

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But Joseph said, “I will not make you all slaves! Only the man who stole the cup will be my slave. The rest of you may go back safely to your father.”

He will come and kill those farmers and will give the vineyard to other farmers.” When the people heard this story, they said, “Let this never happen!”

In the same way, we are many, but in Christ we are all one body. Each one is a part of that body, and each part belongs to all the other parts.

So do we destroy the law by following the way of faith? No! Faith causes us to be what the law truly wants.

No! If God could not punish us, he could not judge the world.

So what should we do? Should we sin because we are under grace and not under law? No!

No! We died to our old sinful lives, so how can we continue living with sin?

Does this mean that something that is good brought death to me? No! Sin used something that is good to bring death to me. This happened so that I could see what sin is really like; the command was used to show that sin is very evil.

You might think I am saying that sin and the law are the same thing. That is not true. But the law was the only way I could learn what sin meant. I would never have known what it means to want to take something belonging to someone else if the law had not said, “You must not want to take your neighbor’s things.”

But I want you to understand this: The head of every man is Christ, the head of a woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.

Together you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of that body.

“Food is for the stomach, and the stomach for food,” but God will destroy them both. The body is not for sexual sin but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.

But the one who joins with the Lord is one spirit with the Lord.

You should know that your body is a temple for the Holy Spirit who is in you. You have received the Holy Spirit from God. So you do not belong to yourselves,

You know that in the future we will judge angels, so surely we can judge the ordinary things of this life.

We Jews came to Christ, trying to be made right with God, and it became clear that we are sinners, too. Does this mean that Christ encourages sin? No!

Does this mean that the law is against God’s promises? Never! That would be true only if the law could make us right with God. But God did not give a law that can bring life.

I hope I will never brag about things like that. The cross of our Lord Jesus Christ is my only reason for bragging. Through the cross of Jesus my world was crucified, and I died to the world.

Christ gave those gifts to prepare God’s holy people for the work of serving, to make the body of Christ stronger.

because the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church. And he is the Savior of the body, which is the church.

because we are parts of his body.

They do not hold tightly to Christ, the head. It is from him that all the parts of the body are cared for and held together. So it grows in the way God wants it to grow.




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