V. 1. It is commonly reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, that a that a man should have his father's 2 wife. And you are puffed up! and have not rather mourned that he that hath done this thing might be 3 taken away from among you. For I, verily, as present in spirit, though absent in body, have judged already as if I was present, him that hath so done this thing, 4- In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you

and my spirit are gathered together, with the power 5 of our Lord Jesus Christ, to commit such an one to Satan for the extinction of the flesh, that the spirit 6 may be delivered in the day of the Lord Jesus. Your boasting is not good. Know ye not, that a little leaven

7 leaveneth the whole lump? Purge out the old leaven that ye may be a new lump, inasmuch as ye are unleavened, since our Passover, Christ, is slain for us. 8 Wherefore let us keep Passover, not with the old leaven, nor with the leaven of evil and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of purity and truth.

9 I wrote to you in an epistle not to company with for10 nicators, not indeed absolutely, as including the fornicators

of this world, or the covetous, the rapacious, and the idola11 trous, for then must ye have gone out of the world; but

now I have written to you, if any one called a brother is a fornicator, or covetous, or idolatrous, or a railer, or a drunkard, or rapacious, with such an one not to keep com12 pany, not even to eat. For what have I to do with judg 13 ing those without? Do not ye judge those within? But those without, God will judge. Put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

VI. 1. DARE any of you, having a suit against another, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? 2 Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world, and if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge 3 the smallest cases? Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life? 4 If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, do ye appoint those to judge who have no place in the 5 Church? I speak this to your shame. Is it that there is

not even one wise man among you who is able to judge 6 between brother and brother,—but brother goeth to law 7 with brother, and that at the bar of unbelievers? Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, that ye go to law with one another. Why do ye not rather suffer wrong? 8 why are ye not rather defrauded? Whereas ye wrong,

and defraud, and that your brethren.

9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; nor fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of 10 themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor

drunkards, nor revilers, nor plunderers, shall inherit the 11 kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but ye

have been washed, ye have been sanctified, ye have been, justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the spirit of our God.

12 All things are lawful to me; but all things are not expedient all things are lawful to me; but I will not be 13 brought under the power of any. Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats; but God will

destroy both it and them.

Know ye

And the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and 14 the Lord for the body. And God has both raised up the 15 Lord, and will raise us up by his own power. not that your bodies are members of Christ? then take members of Christ, and make them members 16 of a harlot ? Be it not so. Know ye not that he who is

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joined to a harlot is one body? for it is said, they two 17 shall be as one flesh. But he that is joined to the Lord is 18 one spirit. Flee fornication: every sin that a man doeth

is without the body; but he that committeth fornication 19 sinneth against his own body. Know ye not that your

body is the temple of the holy spirit which is in you, which 20 ye have from God, and that ye are not your own? For ye have been bought with a price: glorify therefore God in in your body.

VII. 1. Now concerning the things whereof you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman; 2 Nevertheless, because of fornication, let every man have 3 his own wife, and every woman her own husband. Let the husband render what is due to the wife, and the wife to

4 the husband. The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife. Deprive not each other, unless with consent for a time, that

ye may have opportunity for prayer, and be together again, that Satan 6 may not tempt you through your incontinence. But this 7 I say on concession, and not by command. For I would that all men were even as I myself: but each hath his own gift from God, one after this manner, another after that.

8 Now I say to the unmarried and widows, it is good for 9 them if they abide even as I. But if they cannot contain,

let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn. 10 And to the married I command, not I, but the Lord: Let 11 not the wife be separated from her husband; but if she

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be separated, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband; — and let not the husband put away his wife.

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But to the rest, I speak, not the Lord: If any brother hath an unbelieving wife, and she herself be pleased to 13 dwell with him, let him not put her away. And if any woman hath an unbelieving husband, and he be pleased 14 to dwell with her, let her not put him away. believing wife is sanctified in the husband, believing husband is sanctified in the wife: 15 your children unclean, but now are they holy. unbelieving depart, let him depart: a brother or a sister is not in bondage to such; but God hath called us to peace. 16 For how knowest thou, O wife, if thou shalt save thine husband? Or how knowest thou, O husband, if thou shalt save thy wife?

But if the

17 But as the Lord hath distributed to each, as God hath called each, so let him walk. And so I ordain in all the 18 Churches. Hath any one been called, being circumcised?

Let him not become uncircumcised. Hath any been called in uncircumcision? Let him not become circum19 cised. Circumcision is nothing; and uncircumcision is nothing; but the keeping of the commandments of God. 20 Let each remain in that calling [class], wherein he was 21 called. Wert thou called, being a slave? Let it be no

care to you; but if thou canst become free, use it rather. 22 For he that is called in the Lord, being a slave, is the Lord's freeman; and likewise he that is called, being free, 23 is Christ's bondsman. Ye have been bought with a price: 24 become not the slaves of men. Brethren, let each remain with God in that state in which he was called.

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Now concerning the unmarried I have no commandment of the Lord, but I give my judgment, as one that hath ob26 tained mercy from the Lord to be faithful. I think, then,

that this is good, because of the present distress; that it is 27 good for a man so to be. Art thou bound to a wife? seek

not deliverance. Art thou free from a wife? seek not a 28 wife. But yet if thou marry, thou hast not sinned. And

if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned; yet such shall have 29 trouble in the flesh; but I spare you. But this I say,

brethren, the time is short. It remaineth that both they 30 that have wives be as though they had none; and they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though 31 they possessed not; and they that use this world, as though

they abused it not; for the fashion of this world passeth 32 away. But I would have you to be without anxiety: the

unmarried careth about the things of the Lord, how he 33 may please the Lord: but the married careth about the 34 things of the world, how he may please his wife. There

is difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit; but the married careth for the