1 Corinthians 6

1 If any of you has a dispute against another, does he dare go to court before the unrighteous, instead of the saints?

Dare any of you, when he hath a controversy with his brother, litigate before the iniquitous, and not before the sanctified?

2 Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

Or know ye not, that the sanctified will judge the world? And if the world will be judged by you, are ye unfit to decide trivial causes?

3 Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life?

Know ye not, that we shall judge angels? How much more things that are of the world?

4 If then, you have to judge things pertaining to this life, do you set them to judge who have no standing in the church?

But if ye have a controversy about a worldly matter, seat ye on the bench for you those who are contemned in the church!

5 I say this to move you to shame. Is there not even one wise person among you who would be able to decide between a brother and his brother?

For shame to you I say it. So, there is not even one wise man among you, who is competent to do equity between a brother and his brother:

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

but a brother litigateth with his brother, and also before them that believe not!

7 Actually, it is already a defeat for you, that you have lawsuits among yourselves. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?

Now therefore ye condemn yourselves, in that ye have litigation one with another. For why do ye not rather suffer wrong? why not rather be defrauded?

8 No, but you yourselves do wrong, and cheat, and that against your brothers.

But ye yourselves commit wrong, and ye defraud even your brethren.

9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor men who have sexual relations with men,

Or do ye not know, that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not mistake; neither whoremongers, nor idol-worshippers, nor adulterers, nor debauchers, nor liers with males,

10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor swindlers, will inherit the Kingdom of God.

nor the avaricious, nor thieves, nor drunkards, nor railers, nor extortioners, will inherit the kingdom of God.

11 Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.

And these things have been in some of you: but ye are washed, and are sanctified, and made righteous, in the name of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, and by the Spirit of our God.

12 "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 the power of anything.

Every thing is in my power: but every thing is not profitable to me. Every thing is in my power; but none of them shall have dominion over me.

13 "Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods," but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

Food is for the belly; and the belly is for food; but God will bring them both to naught. But the body is not for whoredom, but for our Lord; and our Lord for the body.

14 Now God raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his power.

And God hath raised up our Lord; and he will raise us up, by his power.

15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Should I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a prostitute? Absolutely not.

Know ye not, that your bodies are the members of the Messiah? Shall one take a member of the Messiah, and make it the member of a harlot? Far be it.

16 Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For he says, "The two will become one flesh."

Or know ye not, that whoever joineth himself to a harlot, is one body with her? For it is said, They twain shall be one body.

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

But he that joineth himself to our Lord, is with him one spirit.

18 Flee sexual immorality. "Every sin that a person does is outside the body," but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

Flee whoredom. For every other sin which a man committeth, is external to his body; but he that committeth whoredom, sinneth against his own body.

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

Or know ye not, that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who abideth in you, whom ye have received from God? And ye are not your own.

20 for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body.

For ye are bought with a price. Therefore, glorify ye God, with your body, and with your spirit, which are God's.