1 Corinthians 6
1 Dare any one of you who has a grievance against his neighbor go to law before heathen judges, instead of before the saints?
Dar any of you that hath a cause ayens another, be demed at wickid men, and not at hooli men?
2 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?
Whether ye witen not, that seyntis schulen deme of this world? And if the world schal be demed bi you, be ye vnworthi to deme of the leste thingis?
3 Do you not know that we are to try angels? How much more, then, the affairs of life.
Witen ye not, that we schulen deme aungels? hou myche more worldli thingis?
4 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?
Therfor if ye han worldli domes, ordeyne ye tho contemptible men, that ben in the chirche, to deme.
5 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?
Y seie to make you aschamed. So ther is not ony wise man, that may deme bitwixe a brothir and his brothir;
6 Must brother go to law with brother, and that, too, before unbelievers?
but a brothir with brothir stryueth in dom, and that among vnfeithful men.
7 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?
And now trespas is algatis in you, for ye han domes among you. Whi rather take ye no wrong? whi rather suffre ye not disseit?
8 On the contrary, you yourselves are inflicting injustice and fraud, and that upon your brothers.
But and ye doen wrong, and doen fraude, and that to britheren.
9 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,
Whether ye witen not, that wickid men schulen not welde the kyngdom of God? Nyle ye erre; nethir letchours, nether men that seruen mawmetis, nether auouteris,
10 or thieves, or avaricious men, or drunkards, or foul-mouthed men, or extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.
nether letchouris ayen kynde, nether thei that doon letcheri with men, nether theues, nether auerouse men, nethir `ful of drunkenesse, nether curseris, nether rauenours, schulen welde the kyngdom of God.
11 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.
And ye weren sum tyme these thingis; but ye ben waischun, but ye ben halewid, but ye ben iustefied in the name of oure Lord Jhesu Crist, and in the spirit of oure God.
12 "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.
Alle thingis ben leeueful to me, but not alle thingis ben spedeful. Alle thingis ben leeueful to me, but Y schal not be brouyt doun vndur ony mannus power.
13 "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;
Mete to the wombe, and the wombe to metis; and God schal distruye bothe this and that. And the bodi not to fornycacioun, but to the Lord, and the Lord to the bodi.
14 and the God who raised up our Lord will up-raise us also by his mighty power.
For God reiside the Lord, and schal reise vs bi his vertu.
15 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!
Witen ye not, that youre bodies ben membris of Crist? Schal Y thanne take the membris of Crist, and schal Y make the membris of an hoore? God forbede.
16 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.)
Whether ye witen not, that he that cleueth to an hoore, is maad o bodi? For he seith, Ther schulen be tweyne in o fleisch.
17 While a man who is united with the Lord is one with Him in spirit?
And he that cleueth to the Lord, is o spirit.
18 Flee from immorality. Every other sin that a man commits lies outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.
Fle ye fornycacioun; al synne what euere synne a man doith, is with out the bodi; but he that doith fornycacioun, synneth ayens his bodi.
19 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?
Whether ye witen not, that youre membris ben the temple of the Hooli Goost, that is in you, whom ye han of God, and ye ben not youre owne?
20 You are not your own; for you have been bought with a price, therefore glorify God in your bodies.
For ye ben bouyt with greet prijs. Glorifie ye, and bere ye God in youre bodi.
