1 Corinthians 6

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

Dare any of you, having a matter against the other, go to law before the unrighteous and not before the sanctified?

2 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?

Or know ye not that the sanctified will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy of very small legal disputes?

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

Know ye not that we will judge agents? Then why not mundane things?

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

Indeed therefore whenever ye have mundane legal disputes, men who are disdained by the church, these ye seat to judge.

5 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!

I speak shame about you. So there is not among you not even one wise man who will be able to arbitrate between his brother?

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

But brother goes to law against brother, and this before unbelievers?

7 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?

Now therefore it is indeed altogether a defeat for you because ye have legal disputes against yourselves. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

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

Instead ye do wrong, and defraud, and these things to brothers.

9 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,

Or know ye not that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not led astray. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate men, nor homosexuals,

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

nor greedy men, nor thieves, nor drunkards, nor the slanderous, nor the predatory will inherit the kingdom of God.

11 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.

And some of you were these things, but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were made 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 are not profitable; all things are lawful to me, but I will not be under authority by 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 control by anything.

13 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;

The foods are for the belly and the belly for foods, but God will abolish both this and these things. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

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

And God both raised up the Lord and will raise us up through his power.

15 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!

Know ye not that your bodies are body-parts of Christ? Therefore, having taken the body-parts of the Christ, should I make them body-parts of a harlot? May it not happen!

16 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.”

Or know ye not that he who is joined to a harlot is one body? For, The two, he says, will be in one flesh.

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

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

18 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.

Flee fornication. Every sin, whatever a man may do, is outside the body, but he who fornicates sins against his own body.

19 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,

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

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

for ye were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and your spirit, which is of God.