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when we are slandered, we answer kindly. We have become the scum of the earth, the garbage of the world—right up to this moment.
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What do you prefer? Shall I come to you with a rod of discipline, or shall I come in love and with a gentle spirit?
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Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men
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nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
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Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!
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For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”),
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for, “The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it.”
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Don’t you have homes to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God by humiliating those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? Certainly not in this matter!
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For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
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So what shall I do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will also pray with my understanding; I will sing with my spirit, but I will also sing with my understanding.
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Good Order in Worship
What then shall we say, brothers and sisters? When you come together, each of you has a hymn, or a word of instruction, a revelation, a tongue or an interpretation. Everything must be done so that the church may be built up.
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There are also heavenly bodies and there are earthly bodies; but the splendor of the heavenly bodies is one kind, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is another.
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The first man was of the dust of the earth; the second man is of heaven.
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As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the heavenly man, so also are those who are of heaven.
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And just as we have borne the image of the earthly man, so shall we bear the image of the heavenly man.
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I declare to you, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
