1 Corinthians 6

1 Dare any of you, having a matter against the other, go to law before the unrighteous and not before the sanctified?

If one of you has a grievance against an opponent, does he dare to go to law before irreligious men and not before God's people?

2 Or know ye not that the sanctified will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy of very small legal disputes?

Do you not know that God's people will sit in judgement upon the world? And if you are the court before which the world is to be judged, are you unfit to deal with these petty matters?

3 Know ye not that we will judge agents? Then why not mundane things?

Do you not know that we are to sit in judgement upon angels--to say nothing of things belonging to this life?

4 Indeed therefore whenever ye have mundane legal disputes, men who are disdained by the church, these ye seat to judge.

If therefore you have things belonging to this life which need to be decided, is it men who are absolutely nothing in the Church--is it they whom you make your judges?

5 I speak shame about you. So there is not among you not even one wise man who will be able to arbitrate between his brother?

I say this to put you to shame. Has it come to this, that there does not exist among you a single wise man competent to decide between a man and his brother,

6 But brother goes to law against brother, and this before unbelievers?

but brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers?

7 Now therefore it is indeed altogether a defeat for you because ye have legal disputes against yourselves. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

To say no more, then, it is altogether a defect in you that you have law-suits with one another. Why not rather endure injustice? Why not rather submit to being defrauded?

8 Instead ye do wrong, and defraud, and these things to brothers.

On the contrary you yourselves inflict injustice and fraud, and upon brethren too.

9 Or know ye not that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not led astray. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate men, nor homosexuals,

Do you not know that unrighteous men will not inherit God's Kingdom? Cherish no delusion here. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor any who are guilty of unnatural crime,

10 nor greedy men, nor thieves, nor drunkards, nor the slanderous, nor the predatory will inherit the kingdom of God.

nor theives, nor avaricious people, nor any who are addicted to hard drinking, to abusive language or to greed of gain, will inherit God's Kingdom.

11 And some of you were these things, but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were made righteous in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

And all this describes what some of you were. But now you have had every stain washed off: now you have been set apart as holy: now you have been pronounced free from guilt; in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and through the Spirit of our God.

12 All things are lawful for me, but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under control by anything.

Everything is allowable to me, but not everything is profitable. Everything is allowable to me, but to nothing will I become a slave.

13 The foods are for the belly and the belly for foods, but God will abolish both this and these things. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

Food of all kinds is meant for the stomach, and the stomach is meant for food, and God will cause both of them to perish. Yet the body does not exist for the purpose of fornication, but for the Master's service, and the Master exists for the body;

14 And God both raised up the Lord and will raise us up through his power.

and as God by His power raised the Master to life, so He will also raise us up.

15 Know ye not that your bodies are body-parts of Christ? Therefore, having taken the body-parts of the Christ, should I make them body-parts of a harlot? May it not happen!

Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take away the members of Christ and make them the members of a prostitute? No, indeed.

16 Or know ye not that he who is joined to a harlot is one body? For, The two, he says, will be in one flesh.

Or do you not know that a man who has to do with a prostitute is one with her in body? For God says, "The two shall become one."

17 But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.

But he who is in union with the Master is one with Him in spirit.

18 Flee fornication. Every sin, whatever a man may do, is outside the body, but he who fornicates sins against his own body.

Flee from fornication. Any other sin that a human being commits lies outside the body; but he who commits fornication sins against his own body.

19 Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? And ye are not your own,

Or do you not know that your bodies are a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is within you--the Spirit whom you have from God?

20 for ye were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and your spirit, which is of God.

And you are not your own, for you have been redeemed at infinite cost. Therefore glorify God in your bodies.