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1 Corinthians 6:15

Weymouth NT

Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take away the members of Christ and make them the members of a prostitute? No, indeed.

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He will come and put these vine-dressers to death, and give the vineyard to others.« »God forbid!« exclaimed the hearers.

so collectively we form one body in Christ, while individually we are linked to one another as its members.

Do we then by means of this faith abolish the Law? No, indeed; we give the Law a firmer footing.

No indeed; for in that case how shall He judge all mankind?)

Are we therefore to sin because we are no longer under the authority of Law, but under grace? No, indeed!

No, indeed; how shall we who have died to sin, live in it any longer?

Did then a thing which is good become death to me? No, indeed, but sin did; so that through its bringing about death by means of what was good, it might be seen in its true light as sin, in order that by means of the Commandment the unspeakable sinfulness of sin might be plainly shown.

What follows? Is the Law itself a sinful thing? No, indeed; on the contrary, unless I had been taught by the Law, I should have known nothing of sin as sin. For instance, I should not have known what covetousness is, if the Law had not repeatedly said, »Thou shalt not covet.«

I would have you know, however, that of every man, Christ is the Head, that of a woman her husband is the Head, and that God is Christ's Head.

As for you, you are the body of Christ, and individually you are members of it.

Food of all kinds is meant for the stomach, and the stomach is meant for food, and God will cause both of them to perish. Yet the body does not exist for the purpose of fornication, but for the Master's service, and the Master exists for the body;

But he who is in union with the Master is one with Him in spirit.

Or do you not know that your bodies are a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is within you–the Spirit whom you have from God?

Do you not know that we are to sit in judgement upon angels–to say nothing of things belonging to this life?

But if while we are seeking in Christ acquittal from guilt we ourselves are convicted of sin, Christ then encourages us to sin! No, indeed.

God, however, is only one. Is the Law then opposed to the promises of God? No, indeed; for if a Law had been given which could have conferred Life, righteousness would certainly have come by the Law.

But as for me, God forbid that I should glory in anything except the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, upon which the world is crucified to me, and I am crucified to the world.

in order fully to equip His people for the work of serving –for the building up of Christ's body–

because a husband is the Head of his wife as Christ also is the Head of the Church, being indeed the Saviour of this His Body.

because we are, as it were, parts of His Body.

Such a one does not keep his hold upon Christ, the Head, from whom the Body, in all its parts nourished and strengthened by its points of contact and its connections, grows with a divine growth.




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