1 Corinthians Chapter 6: Addiction to Sexual Sin

    1: Dare any of you having a matter against another go to law before the unjust and not before the saints 2: Do you not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters 3: Know ye not that we shall judge angels how much more things that pertain to this life 4: If then you have judgments of things pertaining to this life set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church 5: I speak to your shame Is it so that there is not a wise one among you no not one who shall be able to judge between the brethren 6: But brother goes to law with brother and that before the unbelievers 7: Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you because you go to law one with another Why do you not rather take wrong why do you not rather allow yourselves to be defrauded 8: No you do wrong and defraud and that your brethren 9: Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God Be not deceived neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers nor effeminate nor abusers of themselves with mankind 10: Nor thieves nor covetous nor drunkards nor revilers nor extortioners shall inherit the kingdom of God 11: And such were some of you but you are washed but you are sanctified but you are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God 12: All things are lawful to me but all things are not expedient all things are lawful for me but I will not be brought under the power of any 13: Meats for the belly and the belly for meats but God shall destroy both it and them Now the body is not for porneia[1] but for the Lord and the Lord for the body 14: And God hath both raised up the Lord and will also raise up us by his own power 15: 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 a harlot God forbid 16: What know ye not that he which is joined to a harlot is one body for two saith he shall be one flesh 17: But they who are joined to the Lord is one spirit 18: Flee porneia Every sin that a person commits is without the body but they who commit porneuo sin against their own bodies 19: What know ye not that your bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you which you have of God and you are not your own 20: For you are bought with a price therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit which are God’s

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[1] The English word pornography (porn) comes from the Greek words, porneuo porne, porneia, and pornos, all of which denote sexual sin and, beyond that, potential enslavement (addiction) to sexual sin.

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1 Corinthians 5: Invisible Women Sexual Sin Porn

    1: It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles that one should have his father's wife 2: And you are puffed up and have not rather mourned that they who have done this deed might be taken away from among you 3: For I verily as absent in body but present in spirit have judged already as though I were present concerning them that have so done this deed 4: In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ when you are gathered together and my spirit with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ 5: To deliver such one’s unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh that the spirits may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus[1] 6: Your glorying is not good Know ye not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump 7: Purge out therefore the old leaven that you may be a new lump as you are unleavened For even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us 8: Therefore let us keep the feast not with old leaven neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth 9: I wrote to you in a letter not to company with fornicators[2] 10: Yet not altogether with the pornos of this world or with the covetous or extortioners or with idolaters for then must ye needs go out of the world 11: But now I have written to you not to keep company if any [who] are called adelphos[3] be porno or covetous or idolaters or revilers or drunkards or extortioners with such no not to eat 12: For what have I to do to judge them also that are without do you not judge them that are within 13: But them that are without God judges Therefore put away from among yourselves such wicked persons

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[1] Two were involved in this sin—both a woman and a man—and yet, even though no names were used, gender-biased-English-Translation attempts to erase the woman entirely—almost as if she had no culpability in the situation—as if her sin carried no import in the over-all scheme of things. Bible translator discrimination is schizophrenic, working whichever way it suits them when it comes to marginalizing women—either with outright deception and misleading when the scriptures clearly show equality of persons in autonomy and leadership, or simply dismissing and throwing a cloak of invisibility over women by translating words as “him,” when the text/context clearly indicates the best choice would be, “them.” Translator choices in this passage of 1 Corinthians, calls to mind the Greek habit of not identifying women who were being tried as criminals except by the name of the male head of house they were attached to (unless they were truly notorious [head of house was a legal status in that society, and that is where the popular term, still in use today, originated]).

[2] The Greek word translated as fornicators, in this verse, is Strong’s reference G4205—pornos. That is where the English word pornography (porn) comes from. Pornography is adultery or fornication (both are forbidden to Christians)—whether it is lusting after a woman (most porn is of women, but not all) in person, or through magazines, internet, videos, or filthy/steamy novels. Pornos does not require a physical act of sexual intercourse to be considered fornication or adultery. Jesus made that clear, in Matthew 5:28, when he stated that a married man even looking at a woman who was not his wife, and lusting after sexual intercourse with her, had already committed adultery in his heart. Pornography (pornos) consists entirely of looking at the bodies of people one is not married to with sinful desire to engage sexually with them—and Jesus said this counts no differently against our souls from actually doing the deed physically. 

[3] Greek is an androcentric (male-centered) language, and the word, adelphos (literally “brother”), in Bible usage, most often includes women.

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