I Corinthians - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 1191

6—~10

I. CORINTHIANS. IO [I I2 know that the unjust will not inherit thc Kingdom of God? Deceivc not yourselves; neither profiigates, not idolaters, nor adultercrs, not dc- pmved, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor dcbauchees, nor drunkards, nor blackguards, nor plunderers, slill ever inherit the Kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but you have washed yourselves ; but you have purified yourselves; but you made yourselves righteous in the name of the Lord jesus, and in the Spirit of our God. git ®£p¤m11:2 nf §upbi¤i1‘]]. Everything is allowable But everything does not Everything is permis- But I will not be deluded The foods for the

stomach, and the stomach for the But God can abolish both

it and them. And the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord ; and the Lord for the body-—through the same God Who raised up the Lord, and will also restore us through the power of Him. Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ ? Then shall I take the members of Christ and make them portions of a harlot?

16 Never! For do you not know that union with the harlot constitutes one body? For He says: TH2: Iwo

ry SHALL EXIST AS ONE Bon?} But the union with the Lord is one spirit.

t8 Fly from fornication! Every other sin that a man can do is outside the body; but the fornicator sins against

tg his own constitution. Or, do you not know that your body is a sanctuary for the Holy Spirit, which you had from God to live in? And you are

zo not your own: for you were dearly bought; therefore honour God with your body! dhs Kale of marriage sith §ih¤r:z. 7 Now about what you wrote to me. It is well for a man not to be encum-

2 bered with a wife : but for fear of un· chastity, each man should have his own wife; and each woman should

3 have her own husband. The husband 1 Gen. ll. 24.

7-21

should do his duty to his wife; and the wife also to her husband. The wife has not absolute disposal of her own body, but her husband; and likewise the husband has not authority over his body, but the wife. You should not separate from one another : except perhaps, for a time, by con- sent, so that you may have leisure for prayer; and you should return again to one another, so that the enemy may not tempt you through passion. However, I say this from opinion; not by a special command. Yet I wish all men to be even like myself: but each has his own gift from God-—one this way, and another that. But for the unmarried men and the

widows, it were well for them if they could remain as I myself; but if they have not self—restraint, they should marry; for to marry is better than to befeverish. However, to the married the Lord commands, not I: A wife should not be separated from a hus~ band; but if she should separate, let her remain unmarried, or let her re- turn to her husband. And a husband should not dismiss his wife. But for what follows, I myself speak,

not the Lord: If any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she agrees to live with him, she should not be dis- missed; and a wife who may have an unbelieving husband, and he agrees to live with her, she should not leave her husband. For the unbelieving husband is purified in the believing wife; and the unbelieving wife is purified in the brother: or else the children would be defiled; but now they are pure Yet if the unbeliever will separate, let him do so; the brother or sister is not in bondage to such. God, however, called us into peace. For how do you know, wife, but that you may save your husband? or how do you know, husband, but that you may save your wife ? Should not every one walk in the way in which the Lord has apportioned, as God has called? I order the same in all the assemblies. Was one called when circumcised?

Let it not be rejected. Has another been called in unoircumcision? Let him not be ciroumcised. The circum- cision is nothing, and the uncircum· cision is nothing; but observing Di~ vine commands, each should continue in the condition in which he was called. Were you called when a slave P do not T Tl°\T IO II I2 IA 16

X7 x8 20 it

\