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2 KORINTIËRS 6

Hofsake tussen gelowiges

1 Gaan iemand van julle wat 'n saak teen 'n ander gelowige het, werklik so ver dat hy sy reg by heidense regters soek en nie by gelowiges nie? 2 Of weet julle nie dat die gelowiges oor die wêreld sal oordeel nie? En as julle oor die wêreld sal oordeel, is julle dan onbevoeg vir sulke geringe hofsake? 3 Weet julle nie dat ons oor die engele sal oordeel nie? Dan tog seker ook oor alledaagse dinge. 4 As julle oor alledaagse dinge geskille het, laat julle dan dié mense as regters optree op wie die gemeente neersien? 5 Ek sê dit om julle skaam te maak. Is daar dan nie 'n enkele verstandige mens onder julle wat 'n saak tussen gelowiges kan besleg nie? 6 Maar gaan een gelowige nou met die ander hof toe, en dit voor ongelowige regters?

7 Eintlik is julle saak al klaar verlore, omdat julle hofsake met mekaar het. Waarom ly julle nie liewer onreg nie? Waarom laat julle julle nie liewer te kort doen nie? 8 In plaas daarvan pleeg julle onreg en doen ander te kort, en dit doen julle aan medegelowiges.

9 Of weet julle nie dat mense wat onreg doen, geen deel sal kry aan die koninkryk van God nie? Moenie julleself mislei nie: geen onsedelikes of afgodsdienaars of egbrekers of mense wat homoseksualiteit beoefen 10 of diewe of geldgieriges of dronkaards of kwaadpraters of bedrieërs sal deel kry aan die koninkryk van God nie. 11 En so was party van julle juis ook. Maar julle het julle sonde laat afwas, julle is geheilig, julle is vrygespreek in die Naam van die Here Jesus Christus en deur die Gees van ons God.

Verheerlik God in julle liggame

12 Daar is mense wat sê: “Alles is my geoorloof.” Ja, maar nie alles is heilsaam nie. “Alles is my geoorloof,” sê hulle. Ja, maar ek gaan my nie deur enigiets laat verslaaf nie.

13 Hulle sê ook: “Kos is vir die maag, en die maag vir kos.” Goed, maar God sal die een sowel as die ander tot niet maak. 'n Mens se liggaam is nie bedoel vir seksuele losbandigheid nie, maar is daar vir die Here, wat ook oor ons liggaam Here is.

14 God het deur sy krag die Here uit die dood opgewek en so sal Hy ons ook opwek.

15 Weet julle nie dat julle liggaam deel is van Christus nie? Sal ek nou 'n deel van Christus neem en dit 'n deel van 'n ontugtige vrou maak? Beslis nie! 16 Of weet julle nie dat iemand wat met 'n ontugtige vrou omgang het, liggaamlik een met haar is nie? God sê immers: “Die twee sal een word.”t 17 Maar wie hom met die Here verenig, is geestelik een met Hom.

18 Julle moet niks met seksuele losbandigheid te doen hê nie. Elke ander sonde wat 'n mens doen, vind buite sy liggaam plaas, maar iemand wat seksueel losbandig lewe, vergryp hom aan sy eie liggaam. 19 Of besef julle nie dat julle liggaam 'n tempel van die Heilige Gees is nie? Julle het die Heilige Gees, wat in julle woon, van God ontvang, en julle behoort nie aan julleself nie: 20 julle is gekoop, en die prys is betaal. Julle moet God dus in julle liggaam verheerlik.

1 Corinthians 6

1  DOES ANY of you dare, when he has a matter of complaint against another [brother], to go to law before unrighteous men [men neither upright nor right with God, laying it before them] instead of before the saints (the people of God)?2  Do you not know that the saints (the believers) will [one day] judge and govern the world? And if the world [itself] is to be judged and ruled by you, are you unworthy and incompetent to try [such petty matters] of the smallest courts of justice?3  Do you not know also that we [Christians] are to judge the [very] angels and pronounce opinion between right and wrong [for them]? How much more then [as to] matters pertaining to this world and of this life only!4  If then you do have such cases of everyday life to decide, why do you appoint [as judges to lay them before] those who [from the standpoint] of the church count for least and are without standing?5  I say this to move you to shame. Can it be that there really is not one man among you who [in action is governed by piety and integrity and] is wise and competent enough to decide [the private grievances, disputes, and quarrels] between members of the brotherhood,6  But brother goes to law against brother, and that before [Gentile judges who are] unbelievers [without faith or trust in the Gospel of Christ]?7  Why, the very fact of your having lawsuits with one another at all is a defect (a defeat, an evidence of positive moral loss for you). Why not rather let yourselves suffer wrong and be deprived of what is your due? Why not rather be cheated (defrauded and robbed)?8  But [instead it is you] yourselves who wrong and defraud, and that even your own brethren [by so treating them]!9  Do you not know that the unrighteous and the wrongdoers will not inherit or have any share in the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived (misled): neither the impure and immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who participate in homosexuality,10  Nor cheats (swindlers and thieves), nor greedy graspers, nor drunkards, nor foulmouthed revilers and slanderers, nor extortioners and robbers will inherit or have any share in the kingdom of God.11  And such some of you were [once]. But you were washed clean (purified by a complete atonement for sin and made free from the guilt of sin), and you were consecrated (set apart, hallowed), and you were justified [pronounced righteous, by trusting] in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the [Holy] Spirit of our God.12  Everything is permissible (allowable and lawful) for me; but not all things are helpful (good for me to do, expedient and profitable when considered with other things). Everything is lawful for me, but I will not become the slave of anything or be brought under its power.13  Food [is intended] for the stomach and the stomach for food, but God will finally end [the functions of] both and bring them to nothing. The body is not intended for sexual immorality, but [is intended] for the Lord, and the Lord [is intended] for the body [to save, sanctify, and raise it again].14  And God both raised the Lord to life and will also raise us up by His power.15  Do you not see and know that your bodies are members (bodily parts) of Christ (the Messiah)? Am I therefore to take the parts of Christ and make [them] parts of a prostitute? Never! Never!16  Or do you not know and realize that when a man joins himself to a prostitute, he becomes one body with her? The two, it is written, shall become one flesh. 17  But the person who is united to the Lord becomes one spirit with Him.18  Shun immorality and all sexual looseness [flee from impurity in thought, word, or deed]. Any other sin which a man commits is one outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.19  Do you not know that your body is the temple (the very sanctuary) of the Holy Spirit Who lives within you, Whom you have received [as a Gift] from God? You are not your own,20  You were bought with a price [purchased with a preciousness and paid for, made His own]. So then, honor God and bring glory to Him in your body.