Don't you know that God's people will judge the world? Well, then, if you are to judge the world, aren't you capable of judging small matters?

Do you not know that we shall judge the angels? How much more, then, the things of this life!

You know that your bodies are parts of the body of Christ. Shall I take a part of Christ's body and make it part of the body of a prostitute? Impossible!

Or perhaps you don't know that the man who joins his body to a prostitute becomes physically one with her? The scripture says quite plainly, "The two will become one body."

Don't you know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and who was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourselves but to God;

Surely you know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you!

Surely you know that many runners take part in a race, but only one of them wins the prize. Run, then, in such a way as to win the prize.

"Do not spread false rumors, and do not help a guilty person by giving false testimony.

"Be honest and just when you make decisions in legal cases; do not show favoritism to the poor or fear the rich.

"Do not cheat anyone by using false measures of length, weight, or quantity.

Use honest scales, honest weights, and honest measures. I am the LORD your God, and I brought you out of Egypt.

"Do not cheat when you use weights and measures.

Use true and honest weights and measures, so that you may live a long time in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

The LORD hates people who use dishonest scales. He is happy with honest weights.

If you plant the seeds of injustice, disaster will spring up, and your oppression of others will end.

You are doomed! You make unjust laws that oppress my people.

That is how you keep the poor from having their rights and from getting justice. That is how you take the property that belongs to widows and orphans.

Let the wicked leave their way of life and change their way of thinking. Let them turn to the LORD, our God; he is merciful and quick to forgive.

Then he said to me, "On it is written the curse that is to go out over the whole land. On one side of the scroll it says that every thief will be removed from the land; and on the other side it says that everyone who tells lies under oath will also be taken away.

But as Paul went on discussing about goodness, self-control, and the coming Day of Judgment, Felix was afraid and said, "You may leave now. I will call you again when I get the chance."

God's anger is revealed from heaven against all the sin and evil of the people whose evil ways prevent the truth from being known.

It must be remembered, of course, that laws are made, not for good people, but for lawbreakers and criminals, for the godless and sinful, for those who are not religious or spiritual, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers,

or who steal or are greedy or are drunkards or who slander others or are thieves---none of these will possess God's Kingdom.

What I mean, friends, is that what is made of flesh and blood cannot share in God's Kingdom, and what is mortal cannot possess immortality.

And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields for my sake, will receive a hundred times more and will be given eternal life.

Then the King will say to the people on his right, 'Come, you that are blessed by my Father! Come and possess the kingdom which has been prepared for you ever since the creation of the world.

they are envious, get drunk, have orgies, and do other things like these. I warn you now as I have before: those who do these things will not possess the Kingdom of God.

Now, it is actually being said that there is sexual immorality among you so terrible that not even the heathen would be guilty of it. I am told that a man is sleeping with his stepmother!

Now I did not mean pagans who are immoral or greedy or are thieves, or who worship idols. To avoid them you would have to get out of the world completely.

What human nature does is quite plain. It shows itself in immoral, filthy, and indecent actions;

they are envious, get drunk, have orgies, and do other things like these. I warn you now as I have before: those who do these things will not possess the Kingdom of God.

Nor is it fitting for you to use language which is obscene, profane, or vulgar. Rather you should give thanks to God.

You may be sure that no one who is immoral, indecent, or greedy (for greed is a form of idolatry) will ever receive a share in the Kingdom of Christ and of God.

It must be remembered, of course, that laws are made, not for good people, but for lawbreakers and criminals, for the godless and sinful, for those who are not religious or spiritual, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers,

Try to be at peace with everyone, and try to live a holy life, because no one will see the Lord without it.

Let no one become immoral or unspiritual like Esau, who for a single meal sold his rights as the older son.

Marriage is to be honored by all, and husbands and wives must be faithful to each other. God will judge those who are immoral and those who commit adultery.

But cowards, traitors, perverts, murderers, the immoral, those who practice magic, those who worship idols, and all liars---the place for them is the lake burning with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."

But outside the city are the perverts and those who practice magic, the immoral and the murderers, those who worship idols and those who are liars both in words and deeds.

They called out to Lot and asked, "Where are the men who came to stay with you tonight? Bring them out to us!" The men of Sodom wanted to have sex with them.

No man is to have sexual relations with another man; God hates that.

If a man has sexual relations with another man, they have done a disgusting thing, and both shall be put to death. They are responsible for their own death.

"Women are not to wear men's clothing, and men are not to wear women's clothing; the LORD your God hates people who do such things.

"No Israelite, man or woman, is to become a temple prostitute.

They were enjoying themselves when all of a sudden some sexual perverts from the town surrounded the house and started beating on the door. They said to the old man, "Bring out that man that came home with you! We want to have sex with him!"

Because they do this, God has given them over to shameful passions. Even the women pervert the natural use of their sex by unnatural acts.

In the same way the men give up natural sexual relations with women and burn with passion for each other. Men do shameful things with each other, and as a result they bring upon themselves the punishment they deserve for their wrongdoing.

for the immoral, for sexual perverts, for kidnappers, for those who lie and give false testimony or who do anything else contrary to sound doctrine.