1 Corinthians 6

1 Does any one of you that has a matter of dispute with another, presume to be judged before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?

Dare any one of you who has a grievance against his neighbor go to law before heathen judges, instead of before the saints?

2 Know you not that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you unworthy to decide concerning the smallest matters?

Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be tried by you, are you unfit to try such trifling cases?

3 Know you not that we shall judge angels? Much more then, things pertaining to this life.

Do you not know that we are to try angels? How much more, then, the affairs of life.

4 If, then, you have controversies pertaining to things of this life, set them to judge who are the least esteemed in the church.

Why then, if you have cases relating to earthly affairs which need to be decided, is it men who are absolutely nothing in the church whom you make your judges?

5 I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not among you a wise man, not even one, who shall be able to arbitrate between his brethren?

I say this to shame you. Is it so that there is not among you a single wise man, capable of deciding between a man and his brother?

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

Must brother go to law with brother, and that, too, before unbelievers?

7 Now, certainly, you are altogether in fault, that you have law-suits with one another. Why do you not rather suffer injustice? Why do you not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?

Indeed, to say nothing more, the fact that you have lawsuits with one another is altogether a defect in you. Why not rather suffer injustice? Why not rather endure being cheated?

8 But you act unjustly, and you defraud, and that, too, your brethren.

On the contrary, you yourselves are inflicting injustice and fraud, and that upon your brothers.

9 Know you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither lewd persons, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor catamites, nor sodomites,

Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. None who are immoral, or idolaters, or adulterers, or catamites, or sodomites,

10 nor thieves, nor defrauders, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

or thieves, or avaricious men, or drunkards, or foul-mouthed men, or extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.

11 And such were some of you: but you are washed, but you are sanctified, but you are justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

Such were some of you, but you have washed away your stains, you have been consecrated, you have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.

12 All meats are lawful for me: but all are not profitable. All are lawful for me; but I will not be brought under subjection by any.

"All things are lawful for me"? Yes, but not all things are good for me. "All things are lawful for me"? Yes, but I will not let myself be enslaved by the power of any.

13 Meats for the stomach, and the stomach for meats; but God will destroy both it and them. But the body is not for lewdness, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body:

"Food is meant for the stomach, and the stomach for food"? Yes, but God will soon put an end both to the one and to the other. The body, however, exists not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

14 and God has raised, up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his power.

and the God who raised up our Lord will up-raise us also by his mighty power.

15 Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I, then, take the members of the Christ, and make them the members of a harlot? It must not be.

You know, do you not, that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a harlot? God forbid!

16 Know you not that he that is joined to a harlot, is one body? For the two, says the scripture, shall be one flesh.

Do you not know that he who joins himself to a harlot is one with her in body? (For God says, The two shall become one flesh.)

17 But he that is joined to the Lord, is one spirit.

While a man who is united with the Lord is one with Him in spirit?

18 Shun lewdness. Every sin that a man commits, is without the body; but he that is guilty of lewdness sins against his own body.

Flee from immorality. Every other sin that a man commits lies outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.

19 Know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, which you have from God, and that you are not your own?

Do you not know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is within you, the Spirit whom you have from God?

20 For you have been bought with a price: therefore, glorify God in your body.

You are not your own; for you have been bought with a price, therefore glorify God in your bodies.