고린도전서 Chapter 6

Translation: ESV

1

When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints?

Key Message

Taking conflicts between believers to secular courts damages the church's witness; it is proper to resolve them within the church.

▸This addresses the problem of believers suing each other in secular courts.

This addresses the problem of believers suing each other in secular courts. Paul points out that this damages the church's reputation and puts the world in the position of judging the church. Internal conflicts among believers should be resolved within the church.

Related Verses

If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.
19

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

Key Message

Each believer's body is a temple of the Holy Spirit; therefore how the body is used matters spiritually. The body belongs not to oneself but to God.

▸A declaration that the individual body is a temple of the Spirit.

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for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

Key Message

As those redeemed by the price of Christ's blood, glorifying God with our bodies is our calling.

▸Being redeemed by the price of Christ's blood is the basis for using the body in holiness.