1 Corinthians 6

1 Dare any one of you, having a matter against another, prosecute his suit before the unjust, and not before the saints?

Dare anyone of you, having a matter with the other, go to be judged before the unrighteous, and not before the holy ones?

2 Do ye not then know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy of [the] smallest judgments?

Have you not known that the holy ones will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy of the smaller judgments?

3 Do ye not know that we shall judge angels? and not then matters of this life?

Have you not known that we will judge messengers? Why not then the things of life?

4 If then ye have judgments as to things of this life, set those [to judge] who are little esteemed in the assembly.

Of the things of life, indeed, then, if you may have judgment, those despised in the Assembly—these you cause to sit;

5 I speak to you [to put you] to shame. Thus there is not a wise person among you, not even one, who shall be able to decide between his brethren!

I speak to your shame: so there is not among you one wise man, not even one, who will be able to discern in the midst of his brothers!

6 But brother prosecutes his suit with brother, and that before unbelievers.

But brother with brother goes to be judged, and this before unbelievers!

7 Already indeed then it is altogether a fault in you that ye have suits between yourselves. Why do ye not rather suffer wrong? why are ye not rather defrauded?

Already, indeed, then, there is altogether a fault among you, that you have judgments with one another; why do you not rather suffer injustice? Why not be defrauded?

8 But ye do wrong, and defraud, and this [your] brethren.

But you do injustice, and you defraud, and these—brothers!

9 Do ye not know that unrighteous [persons] shall not inherit [the] kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who make women of themselves, nor who abuse themselves with men,

Have you not known that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Do not be led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,

10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor abusive persons, nor [the] rapacious, shall inherit [the] kingdom of God.

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, will inherit the Kingdom of God.

11 And these things were some of you; but ye have been washed, but ye have been sanctified, but ye have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

And certain of you were these! But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were declared righteous, in the Name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

12 All things are lawful to me, but all things do not profit; all things are lawful to me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

All things are lawful to me, but all things are not profitable; all things are lawful to me, but I will not be under authority by any;

13 Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats; but God will bring to nothing both it and them: but the body [is] not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

the meats [are] for the belly, and the belly for the meats. And God will make useless both this and these; and the body [is] not for whoredom, but for the LORD, and the LORD for the body;

14 And God has both raised up the Lord, and will raise us up from among [the dead] by his power.

and God raised both the LORD, and will raise us up through His power.

15 Do ye not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then, taking the members of the Christ, make [them] members of a harlot? Far be the thought.

Have you not known that your bodies are members of Christ? Having taken, then, the members of the Christ, will I make [them] members of a prostitute? Let it not be!

16 Do ye not know that he [that is] joined to the harlot is one body? for the two, he says, shall be one flesh.

Have you not known that he who is joined to the prostitute is one body? For it says, “The two will be into one flesh.”

17 But he that [is] joined to the Lord is one Spirit.

And he who is joined to the LORD is one spirit;

18 Flee fornication. Every sin which a man may practise is without the body, but he that commits fornication sins against his own body.

flee the whoredom; every sin—whatever a man may commit—is outside the body, and he who is committing whoredom sins against his own body.

19 Do ye not know that your body is [the] temple of the Holy Spirit which [is] in you, which ye have of God; and ye are not your own?

Have you not known that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit in you, which you have from God? And you are not your own,

20 for ye have been bought with a price: glorify now then God in your body.

for you were bought with a price; glorify, then, God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.