1 Korintus 6:7

6:7 The fact that you have lawsuits among yourselves demonstrates that you have already been defeated. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?

1 Korintus 6:12

Flee Sexual Immorality

6:12 “All things are lawful for me” ¹  – but not everything is beneficial. “All things are lawful for me” – but I will not be controlled by anything.

1 Korintus 7:31

7:31 those who use the world as though they were not using it to the full. For the present shape of this world is passing away.

1 Korintus 10:1

Learning from Israel’s Failures

10:1 For I do not want you to be unaware, ²  brothers and sisters, ³  that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea,

1 Korintus 10:11

10:11 These things happened to them as examples and were written for our instruction, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

1 Korintus 12:23-24

12:23 and those members we consider less honorable we clothe with greater honor, and our unpresentable members are clothed with dignity, ⁴  12:24 but our presentable members do not need this. Instead, God has blended together the body, giving greater honor to the lesser member,

1 Korintus 14:28-29

14:28 But if there is no interpreter, he should be silent in the church. Let him speak to himself and to God. 14:29 Two or three prophets should speak and the others should evaluate what is said.

[6:12]  ¹ sn All things are lawful for me. In the expressions in vv. 12-13 within quotation marks, Paul cites certain slogans the Corinthians apparently used to justify their behavior. Paul agrees with the slogans in part, but corrects them to show how the Corinthians have misused these ideas.

[10:1]  ² tn Grk “ignorant.”

[10:1]  ³ tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:10.

[12:23]  ⁴ tn Grk “have greater propriety (or decorum, presentability).”