Now what we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.
We are of God, and whoever knows God listens to us, but anyone who is not from God doesn’t listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
What agreement does the temple of God have with idols? For we are the temple of the living God, just as God said, “I will dwell with them and walk among them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”
“Foods for the stomach, and the stomach for foods, but God will do away with both.” The body, however, is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.
in which y’all once walked according to the ways of this world and according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience.
The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers so that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, would not shine on them.
My little children, I write these things to y’all so that y’all may not sin. If anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous one.