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 any of you, having a matter against his neighbour, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?

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?

Don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

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

Don’t you know that we will judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life?

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

If then you have to judge things pertaining to this life, do you set them to judge who are of no account in the assembly?

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 say this to move you to shame. Isn’t there even one wise man amongst you who would be able to decide between his brothers?

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

But brother goes to law with brother, and that 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?

Therefore it is already altogether a defect in you that you have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

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

No, but you yourselves do wrong and defraud, and that against your 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,

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

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 slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom.

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.

Some of you were such, but you were washed. You were sanctified. You were justified 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 for me,” but not all things are expedient. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be brought under the power of anything.

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.

“Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, 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.

Now God raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up by 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.

Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it never 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.

Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two”, he says, “will become one flesh.”

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

But 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 sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality 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?

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? 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. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.