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1 Corinthians 6
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1 Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?
2 Don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters? Fathers
3 Don’t you know that we will judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life?
4 If then you have to judge things pertaining to this life, do you set them to judge who are of no account in the assembly?
5 I say this to move you to shame. Isn’t there even one wise man among you who would be able to decide between his brothers?
6 But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers!
7 Therefore it is already altogether a defect in you that you have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?
8 No, but you yourselves do wrong and defraud, and that against your brothers.
9 Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, CCC · Fathers
10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom. CCC · Fathers
11 Some of you were such, but you were washed. You were sanctified. You were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God. CCC · Fathers
12 “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are expedient. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be brought under the power of anything. Fathers
13 “Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. CCC · Fathers
14 Now God raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his power. CCC · Fathers
15 Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be! CCC
16 Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two”, he says, “will become one flesh.” CCC
17 But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit. CCC
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 don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, CCC
20 for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s. CCC · Fathers
1 Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to be judged before the unjust: and not before the saints?
2 Know you not that the saints shall judge this world? And if the world shall be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters? Fathers
3 Know you not that we shall judge angels? How much more things of this world?
4 If therefore you have judgments of things pertaining to this world, set them to judge who are the most despised in the church.
5 I speak to your shame. Is it so that there is not among you any one wise man that is able to judge between his brethren?
6 But brother goeth to law with brother: and that before unbelievers.
7 Already indeed there is plainly a fault among you, that you have law suits one with another. Why do you not rather take wrong? Why do you not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?
8 But you do wrong and defraud: and that to your brethren.
9 Know you not that the unjust shall not possess the kingdom of God? Do not err: Neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers: CCC · Fathers
10 Nor the effeminate nor liers with mankind nor thieves nor covetous nor drunkards nor railers nor extortioners shall possess the kingdom of God. CCC · Fathers
11 And such some of you were. But you are washed: but you are sanctified: but you are justified: in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and the Spirit of our God. CCC · Fathers
12 All things are lawful to me: but all things are not expedient. All things are lawful to me: but I will not be brought under the power of any. Fathers
13 Meat for the belly and the belly for the meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord: and the Lord for the body. CCC · Fathers
14 Now God hath both raised up the Lord, and will raise us up also by his power. CCC · Fathers
15 Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid! CCC
16 Or know you not that he who is joined to a harlot is made one body? For they shall be, saith he, two in one flesh. CCC
17 But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit. CCC
18 Fly fornication. Every sin that a man doth is without the body: but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
19 Or know you not that your members are the temple of the Holy Ghost, who is in you, whom you have from God: and you are not your own? CCC
20 For you are bought with a great price. Glorify and bear God in your body. CCC · Fathers
This chapter in the Catechism and the early Church
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“Do we not know that the saints shall judge the world?”
Quoted in Letter to the Philippians, St. Polycarp of Smyrna (early 2nd century), Chapter XI. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
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- CCC 2380 “Adultery refers to marital infidelity. When two partners, of whom at least one is married to another party, have sexual relations -…”
“themselves with mankind, shall inherit the kingdom of God,”
Quoted in Letter to the Philippians, St. Polycarp of Smyrna (early 2nd century), Chapter V. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
“Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, not effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.”
Quoted in Against Heresies, Book IV, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter XXVII. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
“And these ye indeed have been; but ye have been washed, but ye have been sanctified, but ye have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.”
Quoted in Against Heresies, Book V, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter XI. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
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- CCC 2380 “Adultery refers to marital infidelity. When two partners, of whom at least one is married to another party, have sexual relations -…”
“themselves with mankind, shall inherit the kingdom of God,”
Quoted in Letter to the Philippians, St. Polycarp of Smyrna (early 2nd century), Chapter V. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
“Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, not effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.”
Quoted in Against Heresies, Book IV, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter XXVII. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
“And these ye indeed have been; but ye have been washed, but ye have been sanctified, but ye have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.”
Quoted in Against Heresies, Book V, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter XI. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
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- CCC 693 “Besides the proper name of "Holy Spirit," which is most frequently used in the Acts of the Apostles and in the Epistles,…”
- CCC 1227 “According to the Apostle Paul, the believer enters through Baptism into communion with Christ's death, is buried with him, and rises with…”
- CCC 1425 “YOU were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of…”
“And such were some of you; but ye have been washed, but ye have been sanctified in the name of our Lord.”
Quoted in Against Heresies, Book IV, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter XXXVII. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
“And these ye indeed have been; but ye have been washed, but ye have been sanctified, but ye have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.”
Quoted in Against Heresies, Book V, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter XI. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
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“And on this account Paul says, "All things are lawful to me, but all things are not expedient;”
Quoted in Against Heresies, Book IV, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter XXXVII. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
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- CCC 1004 “In expectation of that day, the believer's body and soul already participate in the dignity of belonging to Christ. This dignity entails…”
“But God hath both raised up the Lord, and shall raise us up by His own power.”
Quoted in Against Heresies, Book V, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter VI. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
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- CCC 989 “We firmly believe, and hence we hope that, just as Christ is truly risen from the dead and lives for ever, so…”
- CCC 1004 “In expectation of that day, the believer's body and soul already participate in the dignity of belonging to Christ. This dignity entails…”
“But God hath both raised up the Lord, and shall raise us up by His own power.”
Quoted in Against Heresies, Book V, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter VI. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
“… flesh, and pointed out to His disciples the mark of the nails and the opening in His side (now these are the tokens of that flesh which rose from the dead), so "shall He also," it is said, "raise us up by His own power.”
Quoted in Against Heresies, Book V, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter VII. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
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- CCC 796 “The unity of Christ and the Church, head and members of one Body, also implies the distinction of the two within a…”
- CCC 1004 “In expectation of that day, the believer's body and soul already participate in the dignity of belonging to Christ. This dignity entails…”
- CCC 1265 “Baptism not only purifies from all sins, but also makes the neophyte "a new creature," an adopted son of God, who has…”
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- CCC 796 “The unity of Christ and the Church, head and members of one Body, also implies the distinction of the two within a…”
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- CCC 796 “The unity of Christ and the Church, head and members of one Body, also implies the distinction of the two within a…”
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- CCC 1004 “In expectation of that day, the believer's body and soul already participate in the dignity of belonging to Christ. This dignity entails…”
- CCC 1265 “Baptism not only purifies from all sins, but also makes the neophyte "a new creature," an adopted son of God, who has…”
- CCC 1269 “Having become a member of the Church, the person baptized belongs no longer to himself, but to him who died and rose…”
- CCC 1695 “Justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God," "sanctified . . . (and) called…”
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- CCC 1004 “In expectation of that day, the believer's body and soul already participate in the dignity of belonging to Christ. This dignity entails…”
“In order, therefore, that we may be perfected for this, aptly does he say to the Corinthians, "Glorify God in your body.”
Quoted in Against Heresies, Book V, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter XIII. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1