1 KwabaseKhorinte 6

6 ¹Lapho omunye wenu enengxabano nomunye, ulokhu elokotha ukuyiyisa phambi kwabangalungile ukuba bayihlulele, kungabi phambi kwabantu bakaNkulunkulu na? ²Anazi yini ukuthi abangcwele bayakwahlulela izwe? Uma nahlulela izwe, pho anifanele yini ukwahlulela amacala amancanyana kakhulu? ³Anazi yini ukuthi siyakwahlulela izingelosi? Kakhulu kangakanani-ke izindaba zalokhu kuphila! ⁴Ngakho uma ninezingxabano ezinjalo, nibeka yini njengabahluleli labo abangabalulekile lutho ebandleni na? ⁵Ngisho lokhu ukuze nginiyangise. Akukho yini noyedwa phakathi kwenu ohlakaniphe ngokwanele ukwahlulela phakathi kwabazalwane na? ⁶Kodwa kunalokho, umzalwane uyisa omunye umzalwane enkantolo, futhi lokhu phambi kwabangakholwa! ⁷Ukuba namacala omthetho phakathi kwenu kuvele kuwukunqotshwa okuphelele kini. Kungani kungcono ningoniwa nje na? Kungani kungcono ningadlelezelwa nje na? ⁸Kodwa kunalokho, nina uqobo niyona futhi niyadlelezela, futhi nikwenza lokhu kubazalwane nodadewenu.

⁹Noma anazi yini ukuthi abangalungile ngeke bawuzuze ifa lombuso kaBaba wethu? Ningakhohliswa: akekho oziphethe kabi ngokocansi, akekho okhonza izithombe, akekho oweyisa umshado, akekho oyisifebe sesilisa, nendoda elala namanye amadoda, ¹⁰namasela, nababawayo, nezidakwa, nabathuki, nabakhohlisi ngeke bawuzuze ifa lombuso kaBaba wethu. ¹¹Abanye benu babenjalo. Kodwa nageziswa, kodwa nenziwa ngcwele, kodwa nalungiswa egameni leNkosi uJesu Khristu nangoMoya kaBaba wethu.

¹²"I'm free to do anything"—but not everything helps. "I'm free to do anything"—but nothing will control me. ¹³“Ukudla kungokwesisu, nesisu singokokudla”—kodwa uBaba wethu uyakukubhubhisa kokubili. Kodwa umzimba awungowesono sobufebe—ungoweNkosi, neNkosi ingeyomzimba. ¹⁴UBaba wethu owavusa iNkosi uyakusivusa nathi ngamandla akhe. ¹⁵Don't you know your bodies are parts of Christ? Should I take Christ's parts and make them parts of a prostitute? Never! ¹⁶Or don't you know that whoever joins himself to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For it says, "The two will become one flesh." ¹⁷But whoever joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with him.

¹⁸Flee sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral sins against his own body. ¹⁹Noma anazi yini ukuthi umzimba wenu uyithempeli likaMoya oNgcwele okini, enimtholile kuBaba wethu na? Aningabenu nina, ²⁰ngokuba nathengwa ngenani. Ngakho-ke dumisani uBaba wethu emzimbeni wenu.