1 Corinthians 6 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹ 0 Nor the effeminate, nor liers with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor railers, nor extortioners, shall possess the kingdom of God.

² 1 And such some of you were; but you are washed, but you are sanctified, but you are justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Spirit of our God.

³ 2 All things are lawful to me, but all things are not expedient. All things are lawful to me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

⁴ 3 Meat for the belly, and the belly for the meats; but God shall destroy both it and them: but the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

⁵ 4 Now God hath both raised up the Lord, and will raise us up also by his power.

⁶ 5 Know you 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.

⁷ 6 Or know you not, that he who is joined to a harlot, is made one body ? For they shall be, saith he, two in one flesh.

⁸ 7 But he who is joined to the Lord, is one spirit.

⁹ 8 Fly fornication. Every sin that a man doth, is without the body; but he that committeth fornication, sinneth against his own body.

¹⁰ 9 Or know you not, that your members are the temple of the Holy Ghost, who is in you, whom you have from God; and you are not your own ?

¹¹ 0 For you are bought with a great price. Glorify and bear God in your body.

¹² NOW concerning the thing whereof you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

¹³ But for fear of fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

¹⁴ Let the husband render the debt to his wife, and the wife also in like manner to the husband.

¹⁵ The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband. And in like manner the husband also hath not power of his own body, but the wife.

¹⁶ Defraud not one another, except, perhaps, by consent, for a time, that you may give yourselves to prayer; and return together again, lest Satan tempt you for your incontinency.

¹⁷ But I speak this by indulgence, not by commandment.

¹⁸ For I would that all men were even as myself: but every one hath his proper gift from God; one after this manner, and another after that.

¹⁹ But I say to the unmarried, and to the widows: It is good for them if they so continue, even as I.

²⁰ But if they do not contain themselves, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to be burnt.