Topic:Duty and Delight READ THE SCRIPTURE: 1 CORINTHIANS 9:1-23 For when I preach the gospel, I cannot boast, since I am compelled to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel! If I preach voluntarily, I have a reward; if not voluntarily, I am simply discharging the trust committed to me. What then is my reward? Just …
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Topic:The Time Is Short READ THE SCRIPTURE: 1 CORINTHIANS 7:25-40 What I mean, brothers and sisters, is that the time is short. From now on those who have wives should live as if they do not; those who mourn, as if they did not; those who are happy, as if they were not; those who buy something, as if it …
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Topic:With God READ THE SCRIPTURE: 1 CORINTHIANS 7:10-24 Were you a slave when you were called? Don’t let it trouble you — although if you can gain your freedom, do so. For the one who was a slave when called to faith in the Lord is the Lord’s freed person; similarly, the one who was free when called is Christ’s …
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Topic:Sex in Marriage READ THE SCRIPTURE: 1 CORINTHIANS 7:1-9 The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. The wife does not have authority over her own body but yields it to her husband. In the same way, the husband does not have authority over his own body but yields it to …
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Topic:What are Bodies For? READ THE SCRIPTURE: 1 CORINTHIANS 6:12-20 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies. 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 This passage tells why sexual immorality is …
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Topic:The Wrong Way to Right Wrongs READ THE SCRIPTURE: 1 CORINTHIANS 6:1-11 If any of you has a dispute with another, do you dare to take it before the ungodly for judgment instead of before the Lord’s people? Or do you not know that the Lord’s people will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are …
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Topic:Scandal in the Church READ THE SCRIPTURE: 1 CORINTHIANS 5:1-13 I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people — not at all meaning the people of this world who are immoral, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world. But now I am writing to …
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Topic:Complacency READ THE SCRIPTURE: 1 CORINTHIANS 4:8-21 Already you have all you want! Already you have become rich! You have begun to reign — and that without us! How I wish that you really had begun to reign so that we also might reign with you! 1 Corinthians 4:8 The seat of the problem at Corinth was their love of …
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Topic:Stewards of the Mysteries of God READ THE SCRIPTURE: 1 CORINTHIANS 4:1-7 This, then, is how you ought to regard us: as servants of Christ and as those entrusted with the mysteries God has revealed. Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful. 1 Corinthians 4:1-2 A minister of Christ is to be …
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Topic:All Things Are Yours READ THE SCRIPTURE: 1 CORINTHIANS 3:16-23 All things are yours, whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future — all are yours, and you are of Christ, and Christ is of God. 1 Corinthians 21b-23 Paul is showing what happens when you choose the wisdom …
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