Discipleship Living: 1 Corinthians
1 Corinthians

Will You Sue a Brother?

1 Corinthians 6:6–8: But brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers! 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? No, you …

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Discipleship Living: 1 Corinthians
1 Corinthians

Where is the Wise Among You?

1 Corinthians 6:4–5: If then you have judgments concerning things pertaining to this life, do you appoint those who are least esteemed by the church to judge? I say this to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you, not even one, who will …

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Discipleship Living: 1 Corinthians
1 Corinthians

Yes, We Should Judge

1 Corinthians 6:1–3: Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? 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 …

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Discipleship Living: 1 Corinthians
1 Corinthians

We Are Accountable

1 Corinthians 5:11–13: But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—not even to eat with such a person. For what have I to do …

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Discipleship Living: 1 Corinthians
1 Corinthians

Reach the World

1 Corinthians 5:9–10: I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people. Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the …

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Discipleship Living: 1 Corinthians
1 Corinthians

Sincerity and Truth

1 Corinthians 5:8: Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

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Discipleship Living: 1 Corinthians
1 Corinthians

A Little Leaven

1 Corinthians 5:6–7: Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.

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Discipleship Living: 1 Corinthians
1 Corinthians

Spiritual Action

1 Corinthians 5:3–5: For I indeed, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged (as though I were present) him who has so done this deed. In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, along with my spirit, with the power of …

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Discipleship Living: 1 Corinthians
1 Corinthians

It is Reported

1 Corinthians 5:1–2: It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles—that a man has his father’s wife! And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who has done this deed might …

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Discipleship Living: 1 Corinthians
1 Corinthians

God Will Deal With You

1 Corinthians 4:18–21: Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you. But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord wills, and I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power. For the kingdom of God is not …

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