SEXUAL IMMORALITY: Literal World ESV Bible (Galations-5) (Corinthans)
Harold Saive
iSSUE OF SEXUAL iMMORALITY
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Keep in Step with the Spirit (Excerpt)
16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the
desires of the flesh. 17 For the desires of the flesh are
against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are
against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep
you from doing the things you want to do. 18 But if you are led
by the Spirit, you are not under the law. 19 Now the works
of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity,
sensuality, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy,
fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, 21 envy,
drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as
I warned you before, that those who do such things will not
inherit the kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the
Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness,
faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such
things there is no law. 24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus
have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the
Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one
another, envying one another.
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Sexual Immorality Defiles the Church
5:1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality
among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among
pagans, for a man has his father’s wife. 2 And you are
arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has
done this be removed from among you. 3 For though absent
in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have
already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing. 4 When
you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit
is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus, 5 you are to
deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so
that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord. 6
Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven
leavens the whole lump? 7 Cleanse out the old leaven that you
may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our
Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 8 Let us therefore celebrate
the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and
evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. 9 I
wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral
people— 10 not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this
world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you
would need to go out of the world. 11 But now I am writing
to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of
brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is
an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat
with such a one. 12 For what have I to do with judging
outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to
judge? 13 God judges those outside. “Purge the evil person
from among you.”
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Lawsuits Against Believers
6:1 When one of you has a grievance against another, does he
dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints? 2
Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if
the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try
trivial cases? 3 Do you not know that we are to judge angels?
How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life! 4 So if
you have such cases, why do you lay them before those who have
no standing in the church? 5 I say this to your shame. Can it be
that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute
between the brothers, 6 but brother goes to law against brother,
and that before unbelievers? 7 To have lawsuits at all with one
another is already a defeat for you. Why not rather suffer
wrong? Why not rather be defrauded? 8 But you yourselves wrong
and defraud—even your own brothers! 9 Or do you not know that
the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not
be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor
adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, 10 nor
thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor
swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some
of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were
justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit
of our God. Flee Sexual Immorality 12 “All things are
lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are
lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything. 13
“Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God
will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant
for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the
body. 14 And God raised the Lord and will also raise us
up by his power. 15 Do you not know that your bodies are
members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and
make them members of a prostitute? Never! 16 Or do you
not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one
body with her? For, as it is written, “The two will become one
flesh.” 17 But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one
spirit with him. 18 Flee from sexual immorality. Every other
sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually
immoral person sins against his own body. 19 Or do
you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit
within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
20 for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your
body.
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Principles for Marriage
7:1 Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is
good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” 2
But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man
should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. 3
The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and
likewise the wife to her husband. 4 For the wife does not
have authority over her own body, but the husband does.
Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own
body, but the wife does. 5 Do not deprive one another, except
perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote
yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that
Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
6 Now as a concession, not a command, I say this. 7 I wish that
all were as I myself am. But each has his own gift from God, one
of one kind and one of another. 8 To the unmarried and the
widows I say that it is good for them to remain single, as I am.
9 But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For
it is better to marry than to burn with passion. 10 To
the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife
should not separate from her husband 11 (but if she does, she
should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband),
and the husband should not divorce his wife. 12 To the rest I
say (I, not the Lord) that if any brother has a wife who is an
unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not
divorce her. 13 If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever,
and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him. 14
For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife,
and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband.
Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are
holy. 15 But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so.
In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has
called you to peace. 16 For how do you know, wife, whether you
will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you
will save your wife? Live as You Are Called 17 Only let each
person lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him, and to
which God has called him. This is my rule in all the churches.
18 Was anyone at the time of his call already circumcised? Let
him not seek to remove the marks of circumcision. Was anyone at
the time of his call uncircumcised? Let him not seek
circumcision. 19 For neither circumcision counts for anything
nor uncircumcision, but keeping the commandments of God. 20 Each
one should remain in the condition in which he was called. 21
Were you a bondservant when called? Do not be concerned about
it. (But if you can gain your freedom, avail yourself of the
opportunity.) 22 For he who was called in the Lord as a
bondservant is a freedman of the Lord. Likewise he who was free
when called is a bondservant of Christ. 23 You were bought with
a price; do not become bondservants of men. 24 So, brothers, in
whatever condition each was called, there let him remain with
God. The Unmarried and the Widowed 25 Now concerning the
betrothed, I have no command from the Lord, but I give my
judgment as one who by the Lord’s mercy is trustworthy. 26 I
think that in view of the present distress it is good for a
person to remain as he is. 27 Are you bound to a wife? Do not
seek to be free. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek a wife.
28 But if you do marry, you have not sinned, and if a betrothed
woman marries, she has not sinned. Yet those who marry will have
worldly troubles, and I would spare you that. 29 This is what I
mean, brothers: the appointed time has grown very short. From
now on, let those who have wives live as though they had none,
30 and those who mourn as though they were not mourning, and
those who rejoice as though they were not rejoicing, and those
who buy as though they had no goods, 31 and those who deal with
the world as though they had no dealings with it. For the
present form of this world is passing away. 32 I want you to be
free from anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious about the
things of the Lord, how to please the Lord. 33 But the married
man is anxious about worldly things, how to please his wife, 34
and his interests are divided. And the unmarried or betrothed
woman is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to be holy in
body and spirit. But the married woman is anxious about worldly
things, how to please her husband. 35 I say this for your own
benefit, not to lay any restraint upon you, but to promote good
order and to secure your undivided devotion to the Lord. 36 If
anyone thinks that he is not behaving properly toward his
betrothed, if his passions are strong, and it has to be, let him
do as he wishes: let them marry—it is no sin. 37 But whoever is
firmly established in his heart, being under no necessity but
having his desire under control, and has determined this in his
heart, to keep her as his betrothed, he will do well. 38 So then
he who marries his betrothed does well, and he who refrains from
marriage will do even better. 39 A wife is bound to her husband
as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be
married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord. 40 Yet in my
judgment she is happier if she remains as she is. And I think
that I too have the Spirit of God.
