1 Corinthians 6

1 Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?

If one of you has a grievance against an opponent, does he dare to go to law before irreligious men and not before God's people?

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?

Do you not know that God's people will sit in judgement upon the world? And if you are the court before which the world is to be judged, are you unfit to deal with these petty matters?

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

Do you not know that we are to sit in judgement upon angels--to say nothing of things belonging to this life?

4 If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.

If therefore you have things belonging to this life which need to be decided, is it men who are absolutely nothing in the Church--is it they whom you make your judges?

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 say this to put you to shame. Has it come to this, that there does not exist among you a single wise man competent to decide between a man and his brother,

6 But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.

but brother goes to law with brother, and that 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?

To say no more, then, it is altogether a defect in you that you have law-suits with one another. Why not rather endure injustice? Why not rather submit to being defrauded?

8 Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that [your] brethren.

On the contrary you yourselves inflict injustice and fraud, and upon brethren too.

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,

Do you not know that unrighteous men will not inherit God's Kingdom? Cherish no delusion here. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor any who are guilty of unnatural crime,

10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

nor theives, nor avaricious people, nor any who are addicted to hard drinking, to abusive language or to greed of gain, will inherit God's Kingdom.

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 all this describes what some of you were. But now you have had every stain washed off: now you have been set apart as holy: now you have been pronounced free from guilt; in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and through 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.

Everything is allowable to me, but not everything is profitable. Everything is allowable to me, but to nothing will I become a slave.

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.

Food of all kinds is meant for the stomach, and the stomach is meant for food, and God will cause both of them to perish. Yet the body does not exist for the purpose of fornication, but for the Master's service, and the Master exists for the body;

14 And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.

and as God by His power raised the Master to life, so He will also raise us up.

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.

Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take away the members of Christ and make them the members of a prostitute? No, indeed.

16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

Or do you not know that a man who has to do with a prostitute is one with her in body? For God says, "The two shall become one."

17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

But he who is in union with the Master is one with Him in 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 from fornication. Any other sin that a human being commits lies outside the body; but he who commits fornication 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?

Or do you not know that your bodies are a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is within you--the Spirit whom you have from God?

20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.

And you are not your own, for you have been redeemed at infinite cost. Therefore glorify God in your bodies.