I study your teachings very carefully.\par Why? So I will not sin against you.\par
1 Corinthians 15:34 - Easy To Read Version Come back to your right way of thinking and stop sinning. Some of you don’t know God. I say this to shame you. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Awake [from your drunken stupor and return] to sober sense and your right minds, and sin no more. For some of you have not the knowledge of God [you are utterly and willfully and disgracefully ignorant, and continue to be so, lacking the sense of God's presence and all true knowledge of Him]. I say this to your shame. American Standard Version (1901) Awake to soberness righteously, and sin not; for some have no knowledge of God: I speak this to move you to shame. Common English Bible Sober up by acting like you should and don’t sin. Some of you are ignorant about God—I say this because you should be ashamed of yourselves! Catholic Public Domain Version Be vigilant, you just ones, and do not be willing to sin. For certain persons have an ignorance of God. I say this to you with respect. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Awake, ye just, and sin not. For some have not the knowledge of God, I speak it to your shame. |
I study your teachings very carefully.\par Why? So I will not sin against you.\par
\{If something is bothering you,\}\par you can be angry, {\cf2\super [16]} \par but don’t sin.\par Think about those things\par when you go to bed,\par and then relax. {\cf2\super [17]} \par \i (SELAH {\cf2\super [18]})\i0 \par
“Those people use their tongues like a bow;\par lies fly from their mouths like arrows.\par Lies, not truth, have grown strong in this land.\par Those people go from one sin to another.\par They don’t know me.”\par The Lord said these things.\par
Drunks, wake up and cry!\par All of you people that drink wine, cry.\par Why? Because your sweet wine is finished.\par You won’t get another taste of that wine.\par
The captain of the boat saw Jonah and said, “Wake up! Why are you sleeping? Pray to your god! Maybe your god will hear your prayer and save us!”
Jesus answered, “You don’t understand because you don’t know what the Scriptures {\cf2\super [313]} say. And you don’t know about the power of God.
Later Jesus found the man at the temple. {\cf2\super [78]} Jesus said to him, “See, you are well now. But stop sinning or something worse may happen to you!”
Why do you people think it is impossible for God to raise people from death?
People did not think it was important to have a true knowledge of God. So God left them and allowed those people to have their own worthless thinking. And so those people do the things that they should not do.
I say these things because you know that we live in an important time. Yes, it is now time for you to wake up from your sleep. Our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.
I am not trying to make you feel ashamed. But I am writing these things to give you a warning like you were my own dear children.
I say this to shame you. Surely there is some person in your group wise enough to judge a complaint between two brothers (believers)!
But not all people know this. Some people have had the habit of worshiping idols {\cf2\super [49]} until now. So now when those people eat meat, they still feel like it belongs to an idol. They are not sure that it is right to eat this meat. So when they eat it, they feel guilty.
And everything that is made easy to see can become light. This is why we say:
Don’t let your physical desires control you. The people of the world who don’t know God do that.