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do you not rather accept wrong? Why do you not
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rather let yourselves be cheated? No, you your-
selves do wrong and cheat, and you do these
things to your brethren! Do you not know that 6:15 members. The believer’s body is not only
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the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of for the Lord here and now (v. 14) but is of the
God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, Lord,a part of His body,the church (Eph.1:22,23).
nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, The Christian’s body is a spiritual temple in which
nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor the Spirit of Christ lives (12:3;John 7:38,39;20:22;
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drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will Acts 1:8; Rom. 8:9; 2 Cor. 6:16); therefore, when a
inherit the kingdom of God. And such were believer commits a sexual sin, it involves Christ
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some of you. But you were washed, but you were with a harlot. All sexual sin is harlotry. Certainly
sanctified, but you were justified in the name of not! These words translate the strongest Greek
the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God. negative—“may it never be so.”
12 All things are lawful for me, but all things
are not helpful. All things are lawful for me,
but I will not be brought under the power of with her? For “the two,” He says, “shall
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any. Foods for the stomach and the stomach become one flesh.” But he who is joined to
for foods, but God will destroy both it and the Lord is one spirit with Him.
them. Now the body is not for sexual immoral- 18 Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a
ity but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. man does is outside the body, but he who com-
14 And God both raised up the Lord and will mits sexual immorality sins against his own
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also raise us up by His power. body. Or do you not know that your body is
15 Do you not know that your bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you,
members of Christ? Shall I then take the mem- whom you have from God, and you are not
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bers of Christ and make them members of a your own? For you were bought at a price;
harlot? Certainly not! Or do you not know therefore glorify God in your body and in your
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that he who is joined to a harlot is one body spirit, which are God’s.
DAY 24:Who does Paul list among those who will not inherit God’s kingdom?
First Corinthians 6:9,10 provides a list of people who will “not inherit the kingdom.”The king-
dom is the spiritual sphere of salvation where God rules as king over all who belong to Him by faith.
All believers are in that spiritual kingdom, yet are waiting to enter into the full inheritance of it in
the age to come. While believers can and do commit these sins, they do not characterize them as
an unbroken life pattern. When they do, it demonstrates that the person is not in God’s kingdom.
True believers who do sin, repent of that sin and seek to gain the victory over it (Rom. 7:14–25).
“Fornicators.” All who indulge in sexual immorality, but particularly unmarried persons.
“Idolaters.”Those who worship any false god or follow any false religious system.“Adulterers.”Married
persons who indulge in sexual acts outside their marriage.“Homosexuals…sodomites.”These terms
refer to those who exchange and corrupt normal male-female sexual roles and relations.Transvestism,
sex changes, and other gender perversions are included (Gen. 1:27; Deut. 22:5). Sodomites are so-
called because the sin of male-male sex dominated the city of Sodom (Gen. 18:20; 19:4,5).This sinful
perversion is condemned always,in any form,by Scripture (Lev.18:22;20:13;Rom.1:26,27;1 Tim.1:10).
“Thieves…covetous.” Both are guilty of the same basic sin of greed.Those who are covetous
desire what belongs to others; thieves actually take it.“Revilers.” People who try to destroy others
with words.“Extortioners.” Swindlers and embezzlers who steal indirectly, taking unfair advantage
of others for their own financial gain.
Paul reminds the Corinthians that “such were some of you” (v. 11). Though not all Christians
have been guilty of all those particular sins,every Christian is equally an ex-sinner,since Christ came
to save sinners (Matt. 9:13; Rom. 5:20).

Or snare his tongue with a line which
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2 Can you put a reed through his nose,
Or pierce his jaw with a hook?
Job 41:1–42:17
3 Will he make many supplications to
41 “Can you draw out Leviathan with Will he speak softly to you?
you?
a hook,
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