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?

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 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?

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 Do you not know that we will 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, you have to judge things pertaining to this life, do you set them to judge who have no standing 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 say this to move you to shame. Is not there even one wise person among you who would be able to decide between a brother and his brother?

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 goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers.

but brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers?

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?

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

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

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,

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 slanderers, nor swindlers, will 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 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 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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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 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 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 who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.

But he who is in union with the Master is one with Him in 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 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 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 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 you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body.

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