Wisdom & Truth Verses
Every verse of God's eternal Word carries wisdom and truth. A home for all the rich teachings not captured elsewhere.
Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?
Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather {suffer yourselves to} be defrauded?
Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that {your} brethren.
Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body {is} not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. {Meats: not flesh only, but food of any kind}
Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make {them} the members of an harlot? God forbid.
What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: {It is} good for a man not to touch a woman.
For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches.