7 “People of Isra’el, are you any different from the Ethiopians to me?” asks
YAHUVEH.“True, I brought Isra’el up from Egypt,but I also brought the P’lishtim
from Kaftor,and Aram from Kir.
8 Look, the eyes of YAHUVEH Elohim are on the sinful kingdom. I will wipe it off
the face of the earth, yet I will not completely destroy the house of Ya‘akov,”
says YAHUVEH.
9 “For when I give the order,I will shake the house of Isra’el,there among all
the Goyim,as one shakes with a sieve,letting no grain fall to the ground.
10 All the sinners among my people who say, ‘Disaster will never overtake us or
confront us,’ will die by the sword.
11 “When that day comes, I will raise up the fallen sukkah of David.I will close
up its gaps, raise up its ruins and rebuild it as it used to be,
12 so that Isra’el can possess what is left of Edom and of all the nations
bearing my name,”says YAHUVEH, who is doing this.
13 “The days will come,” says YAHUVEH,“when the plowman will overtake the reaper
and the one treading grapes the one sowing seed.Sweet wine will drip down the
mountains,and all the hills will flow with it.
14 I will restore the fortunes of my people Isra’el;they will rebuild and
inhabit the ruined cities;they will plant vineyards and drink their
wine,cultivate gardens and eat their fruit.
15 I will plant them on their own soil,no more to be uprooted from their land,
which I gave them,”says YAHUVEH your ELOHIM.
1 Corinthians 6:9–20
9 Don’t you know that unrighteous people will have no share in the Kingdom of
ELOHIM? Don’t delude yourselves — people who engage in sex before marriage, who
worship idols, who engage in sex after marriage with someone other than their
spouse, who engage in active or passive homosexuality,
10 who steal, who are greedy, who get drunk, who assail people with contemptuous
language, who rob — none of them will share in the Kingdom of ELOHIM.
11 Some of you used to do these things. But you have cleansed yourselves, you
have been set apart for ELOHIM, you have come to be counted righteous through
the power of the Lord YAHUSHUA the Messiah and the Spirit of our ELOHIM.
12 You say, “For me, everything is permitted”? Maybe, but not everything is
helpful. “For me, everything is permitted”? Maybe, but as far as I am concerned,
I am not going to let anything gain control over me.
13 “Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”? Maybe, but ELOHIM
will put an end to both of them. Anyhow, the body is not meant for sexual
immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.
14 ELOHIM raised up the Lord, and he will raise us up too by his power.
15 Don’t you know that your bodies are parts of the Messiah? So, am I to take
parts of the Messiah and make them parts of a prostitute? Heaven forbid!
16 Don’t you know that a man who joins himself to a prostitute becomes
physically one with her? For the Tanakh says, “The two will become one
flesh”;[a]
17 but the person who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.
18 Run from sexual immorality! Every other sin a person commits is outside the
body, but the fornicator sins against his own body.
19 Or don’t you know that your body is a temple for the Ruach HaKodesh who lives
inside you, whom you received from ELOHIM? The fact is, you don’t belong to
yourselves;
20 for you were bought at a price. So use your bodies to glorify ELOHIM.