1 Corinthians 6

1 Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law 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 know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

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 Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?

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

4 If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least 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 your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge 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 goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.

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

7 Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be 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 Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.

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

9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

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 revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

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

11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are 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 unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for 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 shall destroy both it and them. Now 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 hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.

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

15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.

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 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, 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 unto the Lord is one spirit.

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

18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth 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 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost 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 are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.

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