What measure of honor?

If any of you has a dispute with another,
dare he take it before the ungodly for judgment
instead of before the saints?

Do you not know that the saints will judge the world?
And if you are to judge the world,
are you not competent to judge trivial cases?

Do you not know that we will judge angels?
How much more the things of this life!

Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God?
Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters
nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders

nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers
nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

And that is what some of you were.
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.

"Everything is permissible for me"--
but not everything is beneficial.
"Everything is permissible for me"--
but I will not be mastered by anything.

"Food for the stomach and the stomach for food"--
but God will destroy them both.
The body is not meant for sexual immorality,
but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

By his power God raised the Lord from the dead,
and he will raise us also.

Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself?
Shall I then take the members of Christ
and unite them with a prostitute? Never!

Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute
is one with her in body?
For it is said, "The two will become one flesh."

But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with him in spirit.

Flee from sexual immorality.
All other sins a man commits are outside his body,
but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.

Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit,
who is in you, whom you have received from God?
You are not your own;

you were bought at a price.
Therefore honor God with your body.

(1 Corinthians 6:1-3, 9-20;   All scripture taken from New International Version.)

Are YOU honoring God?


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