1 Corinthians 7:10–16 | Married, Stay Married — and the Mixed Marriage

Yesterday we saw Paul honor both marriage and singleness as gifts of God. Today we take up two of the hardest questions in his entire answer to the Corinthians. What about Christians who are already married — should they stay together? And what about Christians who are married to people who do not …

1 Corinthians 7 | All About Marriage — Direct Answers to Delicate Questions

Last week, in chapter 6, we saw Paul press the holiness of the Christian body — your body is a temple, you are not your own, you were bought with a great price. The very next breath, in chapter 7, Paul moves from purity in the body to purity in the home. That is no accident. Personal holiness is th…

1 Corinthians 7:1–9 | Marriage and Singleness: Two Gifts of God

Last week, we walked through 1 Corinthians chapter 6 — Paul’s sharp call to honor God with our bodies, because we are not our own. Today we cross into chapter 7, and Paul moves from the purity of the Christian body to the purity of the Christian home. That move is no accident. Personal holiness is …

1 Corinthians 6:12–14 | Honor Christ with Holy Living

Today Paul gives us a principle to live by, and he builds it out of a slogan that was apparently going around the Corinthian church. Listen: “‘All things are lawful for me, but not all things are helpful. ‘All things are lawful for me, but I will not be dominated by anything.” (1 Corinthians 6:12,…

1 Corinthians 6:9–11 | You Were Washed, Sanctified, Justified

Yesterday Paul told a church that could not settle a lawsuit that it was destined to judge angels. Today he reminds the same church where every one of them came from. And he starts with a list that is hard to read aloud: “Dont you know that evil people wont have a share in the blessings of Gods ki…

Corinthians 6:18–20 and 7:1–2 | From Holy Bodies to Holy Marriages

We close chapter 6 where Sundays message closed it, and then we look over the fence into chapter 7 — because Paul does not pause between them, and neither should we. Here is where chapter 6 lands: “Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually…

My Body, His Temple | 1 Corinthians 6:15–20

Today is the heart of the chapter, and Paul gives us three reasons the body of a believer is not his own to spend as he likes. Listen first: “Dont you know that your bodies are part of the body of Christ? Is it right for me to join part of the body of Christ to a prostitute? No, it isnt! Dont you …

1 Corinthians 6:1–8 | Reflect Christ: Be the Adult in the Room

This week we begin with a question the Corinthians had actually written to Paul about: may I take another Christian to court? Listen to how Paul opens, in the English Standard Version: “When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the sa…

Ephesians 4:14–16 — A Healthy and Holy Church

We close chapter 5 where Sundays message closed it — not with a removal, but with a destination. Everything Paul has said about facing sin, restoring the fallen, and cleaning out the leaven has been pointed at one outcome. Listen to Ephesians 4: “We must stop acting like children. We must not let …

1 Corinthians 5:9–13 — Promoting Purity

Friends, welcome back. Todays passage corrects a misunderstanding so old that Paul was already correcting it in the first century — and we still get it wrong. Listen: “In my other letter I told you not to have anything to do with immoral people. But I wasnt talking about the people of this world. …