1 Corinthians 6

1 If any of you has a grievance against another, how dare he go to law before the unrighteous instead of before the saints!

Dare any of you, having a matter against another, be judged by the unrighteous, and not by the saints?

2 Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases?

Do you not know that the saints are to judge with world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you unworthy to decide your petty causes?

3 Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life!

Do you not know that we are to judge messengers? Why not, then, things pertaining to this life?

4 So if you need to settle everyday matters, do you appoint as judges those of no standing in the church?

If, then, you have the cognizance of such matters, why do you set those to judge who are of no account in the congregation?

5 I say this to your shame. Is there really no one among you wise enough to arbitrate between his brothers?

For shame to you I say it! So, then, there is not among you a wise man; not even one, who shall be able to decide between his brethren!

6 Instead, one brother goes to law against another, and this in front of unbelievers!

But brother with brother is judged, and that by infidels!

7 The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means that you are thoroughly defeated already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?

Now, therefore, indeed, there is plainly a fault in you, that you have law-suits with one another. Why do you not rather bear the being defrauded?

8 Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, even against your own brothers!

But you injure and defraud; and that, too, your own brethren.

9 Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,

Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor catamites, nor sodomites,

10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.

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

11 And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

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

12 “Everything is permissible for me,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible for me,” but I will not be mastered by anything.

All meats are lawful for me to eat, but all are not proper: all meats are lawful for me to eat; but I will not be enslaved by any meat.

13 “Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will destroy them both. The body is not intended for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats; however, God will destroy both it and them. Now, the body was not made for uncleanness, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body:

14 By His power God raised the Lord from the dead, and He will raise us also.

and God has both raised the Lord, and will raise up us by his own power.

15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!

Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall, I, then, take the members of Christ and make them the members of a harlot? By no means.

16 Or don’t you know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.”

What! do you not know that he who is strongly attached to a harlot is one body? for he says, "The two shall be one flesh."

17 But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with Him in spirit.

But he, who is strongly attached to the Lord, is one spirit.

18 Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.

Flee uncleanness. Every sin which a man commits, is without the body: but he who commits uncleanness, sins against his own body.

19 Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;

What! do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have from God?

20 you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.

Besides, you are not your own; for you are bought with a price: therefore, with your body glorify God.