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1 Corinthians 6
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Commentary on the First Letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians, Chapter 6:
Paul continues his response to a report of the immoral behavior of someone in the Christian community at Corinth (5:1-13) with guidance about what to do when one believer has a grievance against another (vs. 1). Paul is dismayed that believers (“brothers”) are bringing lawsuits against one another in the secular court system (vs. 3-7). It is a “defeat” for evangelization when to the non-believing secular world, Christians sin against one another (vs. 7-8). Furthermore, believers should not hold themselves to the standard of secular laws or be motivated simply to avoid punishments of civil courts (vs. 12) but instead be inspired to live a moral life, to be a “temple of the Holy Spirit” as a member of the Kingdom of God, being “washed,” sanctified, and justified through the Lord (vs. 9, 11, 14-20).
*Note on Greek to English Translation: “The RSV (Revised Standard Version) condenses two Greek terms into the single English word ‘homosexuals’…The context makes it clear that Paul is thinking, not of persons merely attracted to others of the same sex, but of those who engage in perverse sexual acts with them” (Scott Hahn and Curtis Mitch, Ignatius Catholic Study Bible: New Testament, 2nd edition)
First Letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians, Chapter 6:
Lawsuits among Believers
1 When one of you has a grievance against a brother, does
he dare go to law before the un righteous instead of the saints? 2 Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases? 3 Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, matters pertaining to this life! 4 If then you have such cases, why do you lay them before those who are least esteemed by the Church? 5 I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no man among you wise enough to decide between members of the brotherhood, 6 but brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers?
7 To have lawsuits at all with one another is defeat for you. Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded? 8 But you yourselves wrong and defraud, and that even your own brethren.
9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither the immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor robbers 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 in the Spirit of our God.
Glorifying God in the Body
12 “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be enslaved by anything. 13 “Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14 And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power. 15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I therefore take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! 16 Do you not know that he who joins himself to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, “The two shall become one.” 17But he who is united to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. 18 Shun immorality. Every other sin which a man commits is outside the body; but the immoral man sins against his own body. 19 Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God? You are not your own; 20 you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
*Daily Lectio Divina Question:
“You are not your own, you were bought with a price.”(v.19) Lord, where are places I disrespect the price you paid for me and for those I feel I have a “grievance” with?
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1 Corintios 6
6 1 ¿Cómo se atreve alguno de vosotros,
que tiene un pleito con otro, a demandar
justicia ante los infieles, y no ante los
santos?
2 ¿No sabéis que los santos van a juzgar
al mundo? Y si por vosotros va a ser
juzgado el mundo, ¿no sois capaces de
juzgar causas menores? 3 ¿No sabéis que
juzgaremos a los ángeles? Pues cuánto
más las cosas ordinarias de la vida.
4 Por tanto, si tenéis pleitos sobre estas
cosas ordinarias, tomad como jueces
a los menospreciados en la Iglesia.
5 Para vergüenza vuestra lo digo: ¿es que
no hay entre vosotros ni un solo sabio
que pueda mediar como juez entre sus
hermanos, 6 sino que vais a pleitear hermano
contra hermano, y eso ante infieles?
7 De todos modos, ya es un fracaso
vuestro que haya pleitos entre vosotros.
¿Por qué no preferís sufrir la injusticia?
¿Por qué no preferís ser despojados? 8 Al
contrario, sois vosotros los que hacéis
injusticias y despojáis, y precisamente a
vuestros hermanos. 9 ¿Es que no sabéis
que los injustos no heredarán el Reino
de Dios? No os engañéis: ni los fornicarios,
ni los idólatras, ni los adúlteros,
ni los afeminados, ni los sodomitas, 10 ni
los ladrones, ni los avaros, ni los borrachos,
ni los injuriosos, ni los rapaces heredarán
el Reino de Dios.
11 Y esto erais algunos. Pero habéis
sido lavados, habéis sido santificados,
habéis sido justificados en el nombre
de Jesucristo el Señor y en el Espíritu de
nuestro Dios.
12 «Todo me es lícito». Pero no todo
conviene. «Todo me es lícito». Pero no
me dejaré dominar por nada. 13 «La comida
para el vientre, y el vientre para la
comida». Pero Dios destruirá lo uno y
lo otro. Por otra parte, el cuerpo no es
para la fornicación sino para el Señor,
y el Señor para el cuerpo. 14 Y Dios, que
resucitó al Señor, también nos resucitará
a nosotros por su poder.
15 ¿No sabéis que vuestros cuerpos
son miembros de Cristo? ¿Voy, entonces,
a tomar los miembros de Cristo para
hacerlos miembros de una meretriz? ¡De
ninguna manera! 16 ¿No sabéis que el que
se une a una meretriz se hace un cuerpo
con ella? Porque está dicho: Serán los
dos una sola carne. 17 En cambio, el que se
une al Señor se hace un solo espíritu con
él. 18 Huid de la fornicación. Todo pecado
que un hombre comete queda fuera
de su cuerpo; pero el que fornica peca
contra su propio cuerpo. 19 ¿O no sabéis
que vuestro cuerpo es templo del Espíritu
Santo, que está en vosotros y habéis
recibido de Dios, y que no os pertenecéis?
20 Habéis sido comprados mediante
un precio. Glorificad, por tanto, a Dios
en vuestro cuerpo.
Pregunta de Lectio Divina del día de hoy
"... y que no os pertenecéis? Habéis sido comprados mediante un precio." (v. 19-20) Señor, en dónde hay sitios en que yo o respeto el precio que tú pagaste por mí y por aquélos por los que siento que tengo alguna "queja?"
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