1 corinthians ch.6

[beardo]

title: God lives in you
best: 14, 20
14 And God both raised up the Lord and will also raise us up by His power.
20 For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body[c] and in your spirit, which are God�s.
these two verses are just encourageing to me of how much God loves us and what He intends to do for us.
challenge: 12; 19
12 All things are lawful for me, but all things are not helpful. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
19 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?
im not sure what paul means here by saying all things are lawfull....i just dont know. and the other is easy to figure just hard for me to always do... hard for me to think of myself as a holy temple where God lives, b/c i know the corruption of this flesh and its a struggle to die to self and live for Christ daily.
:summary:
to me this chapter speaks of problems in the body of Christ (the church) one brother w/ another. Paul asks why are we not able to make a right judgement and get issues worked out? instead of airing out dirty laundry for those who are not a part of the body to judge. Even more so that we should conduct ourselves in a waythat would honor our Lord who lives in us!!

[beardo]

1 Corinthians 6

Do Not Sue the Brethren

1 Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? 2 Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world will be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters? 3 Do you not know that we shall judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life? 4 If then you have judgments concerning things pertaining to this life, do you appoint those who are least esteemed by the church to judge? 5 I say this to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you, not even one, who will be able to judge between his brethren? 6 But brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers!
7 Now therefore, it is already an utter failure for you that you go to law against one another. Why do you not rather accept wrong? Why do you not rather let yourselves be cheated? 8 No, you yourselves do wrong and cheat, and you do these things to your brethren! 9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals,[a] nor sodomites, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.
Glorify God in Body and Spirit


12 All things are lawful for me, but all things are not helpful. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. 13 Foods for the stomach and the stomach for foods, but God will destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14 And God both raised up 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 harlot? Certainly not! 16 Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For “the two,” He says, “shall become one flesh.”[b] 17 But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.
18 Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. 19 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? 20 For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body[c] and in your spirit, which are God’s.