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 one of you who has a grievance against his neighbor go to law before heathen judges, instead of before the saints?

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?

Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be tried by you, are you unfit to try such trifling cases?

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

Do you not know that we are to try angels? How much more, then, the affairs of life.

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

Why then, if you have cases relating to earthly affairs which need to be decided, is it men who are absolutely nothing in the church whom you make your judges?

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 say this to shame you. Is it so that there is not among you a single wise man, capable of deciding between a man and his brother?

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

Must brother go to law with brother, and that, too, 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?

Indeed, to say nothing more, the fact that you have lawsuits with one another is altogether a defect in you. Why not rather suffer injustice? Why not rather endure being cheated?

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

On the contrary, you yourselves are inflicting injustice and fraud, and that upon your 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,

Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. None who are immoral, or idolaters, or adulterers, or catamites, or sodomites,

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

or thieves, or avaricious men, or drunkards, or foul-mouthed men, or extortioners 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.

Such were some of you, but you have washed away your stains, you have been consecrated, you have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, 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"? Yes, but not all things are good for me. "All things are lawful for me"? Yes, but I will not let myself be enslaved by the power of any.

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;

"Food is meant for the stomach, and the stomach for food"? Yes, but God will soon put an end both to the one and to the other. The body, however, exists not for immorality, 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 the God who raised up our Lord will up-raise us also by his mighty 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!

You know, do you not, that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a harlot? God forbid!

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.”

Do you not know that he who joins himself to a harlot is one with her in body? (For God says, The two shall become one flesh.)

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

While a man who is united with the Lord is one with Him in 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 from immorality. Every other sin that a man commits lies outside the body, but the immoral man 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,

Do you not know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is within you, the Spirit whom you have from God?

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

You are not your own; for you have been bought with a price, therefore glorify God in your bodies.