I Corinthians 6:9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.... 19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, 20 for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
In this chapter Paul deals with two major issues: how we handle our business and how we handle our bodies. In both cases, this congregation was acting no differently than the pagan culture around them. They were not acting like those who had been redeemed, bought back from sin, cleansed, and filled with the Holy Spirit. Were they willfully ignorant of that? (Do you not know?) Or had they truly been redeemed? How we live reflects the sincerity of our faith.
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