Hello, and welcome
to His Words are Life.
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I'm Kelly Mowrer. We'll be
reading today from I Corinthians
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before we start,
Let's pray together.
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Dear Jesus, thank you so
much that you have placed
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in our hearts a
desire to come close to you
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to be in your presence, to walk
with you in the paths of life
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Please be to us a
shepherd, teaching us your ways,
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cleansing us
from unrighteousness,
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and leading us home to be with
you. We hope that will be very
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soon. But while we are here,
help us to know more about you
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all the time growing
closer. Bless now as we read.
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May we understand what
we're reading by the power
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of the Holy Spirit. We
love you so much. Amen.
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We're reading from
the King James Version
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in I Corinthians, chapter
7 beginning with verse 18.
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Is any man called being
circumcised? let him not
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become uncircumcised? Is
any called in uncircumcision?
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Let him not be circumcised.
Circumcision is nothing,
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and uncircumcision is
nothing, but the keeping of the
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commandments of God. Let every
man abide in the same calling
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wherein he was called. Art
thou called being a servant?
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care not for it: but if
thou mayest be made free,
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use it rather. For he
that is called in the Lord,
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being a servant, is the
Lord's freeman: likewise also
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he that is called, being
free, is Christ's servant.
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Ye are bought with a price;
be not ye the servants of men.
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Brethren, let every
man, wherein he is called,
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therein abide with God. Now
concerning virgins, I have no
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commandment of the Lord: yet
I give my judgment, as one that
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hath obtained mercy of
the Lord to be faithful.
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I suppose therefore that this is
good for the present distress,
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I say that it is
good for a man so to be.
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Art thou bound unto a
wife? seek not to be loosed.
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Art thou loosed from
a wife? seek not a wife.
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Seek not a wife. But and if thou
marry, thou hast not sinned;
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And if a virgin marry, she
hath not sinned. Nevertheless
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such shall have trouble in
the flesh: but I spare you.
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But this I say, brethren,
the time is short: It remaineth,
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that both they that have wives
be as though they had none;
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And they that weep,
as though they wept not;
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and they that rejoice as
though they rejoiced not;
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they that buy, as
though they possessed not;
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And they that use this
world, as not abusing it:
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for the fashion of this world
passeth away. But I would have
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you without carefulness. He
that is unmarried careth for the
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things that belong to the Lord,
how he may please the Lord:
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But he that is married careth
for the things that are of the
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world, how ye
may please his wife.
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There is difference also
between a wife and a virgin.
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The unmarried woman careth for
the things of the Lord, that she
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may be holy both
in body and in spirit:
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But she that is married careth
for the things of the world,
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how she may please her husband.
And this I speak for your own
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profit; not that I may cast
a snare upon you, but for that
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which is comely, and that
ye may attend upon the lord
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without distraction. But if
any man think that he behaveth
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himself uncomely toward his
virgin, if she pass the flower
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of her age, and need so
require, let him do what he will
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he sinneth not: let them marry.
Nevertheless he that standeth
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steadfast in his heart, having
no necessity, but hath power
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over his own will and has
so decreed in his heart that he
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will keep his virgin, doeth well
So then he that giveth her in
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marriage doeth well; but he
that giveth her not in marriage
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doeth better. The wife
is bound by the law as long
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as her husband liveth;
but if her husband be dead,
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she is at liberty to be
married to whom she will;
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only in the Lord. But she
is happier if she so abide,
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after my judgment: and I think
also that I have the Spirit
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of God. - Reading
from I Corinthians
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beginning in chapter 8 and
this is the King James version.
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Now as touching things offered
unto idols, we know that we all
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have knowledge. Knowledge
puffeth up, but charity edifieth
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and if any man think
that he knoweth any thing,
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he knoweth nothing
yet as he ought to know.
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But if any man love God,
the same is known of him.
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As concerning therefore
the eating of those things
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that are offered in sacrifice
unto idols, we know that an idol
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is nothing in the world,
and that there is none other God
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but one. For though
there be that are called gods,
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whether in heaven or in
earth, - as there be gods many,
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and Lords many, - But
to us there is but one God,
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the Father, of whom are
all things, and we in him:
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and one Lord Jesus
Christ, by whom are all things,
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and we by him. Howbeit there is
not in every man that knowledge:
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for some with conscience of
the idol unto this hour eat it
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as a thing offered unto an idol;
and their conscience being weak
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is defiled. But meat commendeth
us not to God: for neither, if
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we eat are we the
better; neither, if we eat not,
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are we the worse. But take heed
lest by any means this liberty
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of yours become a stumbling
block to them that are weak.
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For if any man see thee
which hast knowledge sit at meat
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in the idol's temple, shall not
the conscience of him which is
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weak be emboldened to eat
those things which are offered
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to idols; and through
thy knowledge shall the weak
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brother perish, for whom Christ
died? But when ye sin so against
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the brethren, and
wound their weak conscience,
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ye sin against Christ. Wherefore
if meat make my brother
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to offend, I will eat no
flesh while the world standeth,
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lest I make my
brother to offend.
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Reading I Corinthians, chapter 9
this is the King James version.
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Am I not an apostle? am I
not free? have I not seen Jesus
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Christ our Lord? are
not ye my work in the Lord?
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If I be not an apostle
unto others, yet doubtless
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I am to you: for the seal
of mine apostleship are ye
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in the Lord. Mine answer to
them that do examine me is this
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Have we not power to eat and to
drink? Have we not power to lead
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about a sister, a wife, as well
as other apostles, and as the
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brethren of the Lord, and
Cephas? or I only and Barnabas,
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have not we power to forbear
working? Who goeth a warfare
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any time at his own charges?
who planteth a vineyard,
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and eateth not of the fruit
thereof? or who feedeth a flock,
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and eateth not of the milk
of the flock? Say I these things
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as a man? or saith
not the law the same also?
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For it is written in the law
of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle
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the mouth of the ox
that treadeth out the corn.
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Doth God take care for the
oxen? Or saith he it altogether
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for our sakes? For our sakes,
no doubt, this is written:
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that he that
ploweth should plow in hope;
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and that he that thresheth
in hope should be partaker
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of this hope. If we have
sown unto you spiritual things,
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is it a great thing if we
shall reap your carnal things?
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If others be partakers of
this power over you, are not we
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rather? Nevertheless we
have not used this power;
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but suffer all things,
lest we should hinder the gospel
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of Christ. Do ye not know that
they which minister about holy
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things live of the things of
the temple? and they which wait
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at the altar are partakers with
the altar? Even so hath the Lord
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ordained that they which
preach the gospel should live
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of the gospel. But I have used
none of these things: neither
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have I written these things,
that it should be so done
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unto me: for it were better
for me to die, than that any man
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should make my glorying void.
For though I preach the gospel,
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I have nothing to glory of:
for necessity is laid upon me;
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yea, woe is unto me, if I preach
not the gospel! For if I do this
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thing willingly I have a
reward: but if against my will,
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a dispensation of the
gospel is committed unto me.
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What is my reward then? Verily
that, when I preach the gospel
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I may make the gospel of Christ
without charge, that I abuse not
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my power in the gospel. For
though I be free from all men,
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Yet have I made myself servant
unto all, that I might gain
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the more. And unto the Jews
I became as a Jew, that I might
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gain the Jews; to them that are
under the law, as under the law,
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that I might gain them that are
under the law; To them that are
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without the law, as without law
- being not without law to God,
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but under the law to Christ, -
that I might gain them that are
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without law. To the weak became
I as weak, that I might gain
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the weak: I am
made all things all men,
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that I might by all
means save some. And this I do
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for the gospel's sake,
that I might be partaker thereof
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with you. Know ye not that they
which run in a race run all,
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but one receiveth the prize?
So run, that ye may obtain.
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And every man that striveth
for the mastery is temperate
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in all things. Now they do it
to obtain a corruptible crown;
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but we an incorruptible.
I therefore so run,
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not as uncertainly; so fight I,
not as one that beateth the air.
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But I keep under my body,
and bring it unto subjection;
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lest that by any means,
when I have preached to others,
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I myself should be a castaway.
We're reading the letter of Paul
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I Corinthians, chapter ten and
this is the King James version.
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Moreover, brethren, I would
not that ye should be ignorant,
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how that all our fathers were
under the cloud, and all passed
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through the sea; and were all
baptized unto Moses in the cloud
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and in the sea; And did all
eat the same spiritual meat;
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And did all drink the same
spiritual drink: for they drank
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of that spiritual
Rock that followed them:
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and that Rock was Christ, But
with many of them God was not
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well pleased: for they were
overthrown in the wilderness.
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Now these things were
our examples, to the intent
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that we should not lust after
evil things, as they also lusted
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neither be ye idolaters, as were
some of them; as it is written,
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The people sat down to eat
and drink, and rose up to play.
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Neither let us
commit fornication,
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as some of them committed, and
fell in one day three and 20.000
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Neither let us tempt Christ,
as some of them also tempted,
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and were destroyed of
serpents. Neither murmur ye,
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as some of them also
murmured, and were destroyed
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of the destroyer. Now all
these things happened unto them
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for ensamples: and they
are written for our admonition,
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upon whom the ends
of the world are come.
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Wherefore let him that
thinketh he standeth take heed
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lest he fall. There
hath no temptation taken you
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but such as is common to
man: but God is faithful,
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who will not suffer you to be
tempted above that ye are able;
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but will with the temptation
also make a way to escape,
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that ye may be able to bear it.
Wherefore, my dearly beloved,
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flee from idolatry.
I speak as to wise men;
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judge ye what I say. The
cup of blessing which we bless,
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Is it not the communion
of the blood of Christ?
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The bread which we break, is
it not the communion of the body
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of Christ? For we being many
are one bread, and one body:
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for we are all
partakers of that one bread.
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Behold Israel after the
flesh: are not they which eat
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of the sacrifices partakers
of the altar? What say I then?
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that the idol is any
thing, or that which is offered
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in sacrifice to idols is any
thing? But I say that the things
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which the Gentiles sacrifice,
they sacrifice to devils,
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and not to God: and I would not
that ye should have fellowship
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with devils. Ye cannot
drink the cup of the Lord,
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and the cup of devils: Ye cannot
be partakers of the Lord's table
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and of the table of devils. Do
we provoke the Lord to jealousy?
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Are we stronger than he?
All things are lawful for me,
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but all things
are not expedient:
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all things are lawful for
me, but all things edify not.
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Let no man seek his own,
but every man another's wealth.
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Whatsoever is sold in
the shambles, that eat,
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asking no question
for conscience sake:
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For the earth is the
Lord's and the fullness thereof.
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If any of them that
believe not bid you to a feast,
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and ye be disposed to go;
whatsoever is set before you,
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eat, asking no
questions for conscience sake.
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But if any man say unto you,
this is offered in sacrifice
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unto idols, eat not for
his sake that shewed it,
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and for conscience sake:
for the earth is the Lord's
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and the fullness thereof:
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