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accept the injustice and leave it at that? Why not let yourselves be cheated?
8 Instead, you yourselves are the ones who do wrong and cheat even your
fellow believers.
9 Don’t you realize that those who do wrong will not inherit the Kingdom of
God? Don’t fool yourselves. Those who indulge in sexual sin, or who worship
idols, or commit adultery, or are male prostitutes, or practice homosexual
ity, 10 or are thieves, or greedy people, or drunkards, or are abusive, or cheat
people—none of these will inherit the Kingdom of God.
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Some of you were once like that.
But
you were cleansed;
you were made holy;
you were made right with God by calling on
the
name of the Lord Jesus Christ
and by the Spirit of our God.
Avoiding Sexual Sin
12 You say, “I am allowed to do anything”—but not everything is good for you.
And even though “I am allowed to do anything,” I must not become a slave
to anything. 13 You say, “Food was made for the stomach, and the stomach for
food.” (This is true, though someday God will do away with both of them.)
But you can’t say that our bodies were made for sexual immorality. They were
made for the Lord, and the Lord cares about our bodies. 14 And God will raise
us from the dead by his power, just as he raised our Lord from the dead.
15 Don’t you realize that your bodies are actually parts of Christ? Should a
man take his body, which is part of Christ, and join it to a prostitute? Never!
16 And don’t you realize that if a man joins himself to a prostitute, he becomes
one body with her? For the Scriptures say, “The two are united into one.”
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But the person who is joined to the Lord
is one spirit with him.
Run from sexual sin! No other sin so clearly affects the body as this one
does. For sexual immorality is a sin against your own body. 19 Don’t you realize
that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given
to you by God? You do not belong to yourself, 20 for God bought you with a
high price. So you must honor God with your body.
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Instruction on Marriage
Now regarding the questions you asked in your letter. Yes, it is good to
abstain from sexual relations. 2 But because there is so much sexual im
morality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have
her own husband.
3 The husband should fulfill his wife’s sexual needs, and the wife should
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