1 Corinthians 6

1 Which one of you having a matter dares to go to law with another before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?

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

2 Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? and if the world is judged by you, are you 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 you not know that we shall judge angels, not indeed matters of this life?

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

4 Then if indeed you have judgments appertaining to this life, do you sit those down who are little esteemed in the church?

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 this to your shame. Is there not one wise man among you who shall be able to judge between his brother?

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

6 But does brother go to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers?

But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers!

7 Indeed it is already altogether a small matter to you, that you have law-suits one with another. Why do you not rather stiffer injustice? why are you 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 you inflict injustice, and defraud, and that your brethren.

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

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

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 the covetous, nor drunkards, nor scolds, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom.

11 And such were some of you: but you have washed, but you have been sanctified, but you have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, 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 are not profitable: all things are lawful, 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 stomach, and the stomach for meats: but God will destroy both this and them. 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 but God both raised up the Lord, and will raise you up through his power.

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

15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? then taking the members of Christ, shall I make them the members of a harlot? it could not be so.

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 you not know that he who is joined to the harlot is one body? for it says, They two 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 who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.

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

18 Fly from fornication. Every sin which a man may commit is outside of his body; the one committing 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 you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? and you 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 you have been bought with a price: indeed glorify 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.