1 Corinthians 6

1 Can it be that, when one of you has a dispute with another, they dare to have their case tried before the heathen, instead of before Christ’s people?

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

2 Don’t you know that Christ’s people will try the world? And if the world is to be tried by you, are you unfit to try the most trivial cases?

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 Don’t you know that we are to try angels – to say nothing of the affairs of this life?

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

4 Why, then, if you have cases relating to the affairs of this life, do you set to try them those who carry no weight with the church? To your shame I ask it.

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

5 Can it be that there is not one among you wise enough to decide between two of their fellow followers?

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 Must a follower sue a fellow follower? In front of unbelievers?

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

7 To begin with, it is undoubtedly a loss to you to have lawsuits with one another. Why not rather let yourselves be wronged? Why not rather let yourselves be cheated?

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 Instead of this, you wrong and cheat others yourselves – yes, even other followers!

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

9 Don’t you know that wrongdoers will have no share in God’s kingdom? Do not be deceived. No one who is immoral, or an idolater, or an adulterer, or licentious, or a sexual pervert,

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 or a thief, or covetous, or a drunkard, or abusive, or grasping, will have any share in God’s kingdom.

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

11 Such some of you used to be; but you washed yourselves clean. You became Christ’s people! You were pronounced righteous through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and through 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 Everything is allowable for me! Yes, but everything is not profitable. Everything is allowable for me! Yes, but for my part, I will not let myself be enslaved by anything.

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 Food exists for the stomach, and the stomach for food; but God will put an end to both the one and the other. The body, however, exists, not for immorality, 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, as God has raised the Lord, so he will raise us up also by the exercise of his power.

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

15 Don’t you know that your bodies are Christ’s members? Am I, then, to take the members that belong to the Christ and make them the members of a prostitute? Heaven forbid!

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 Or don’t you know that a man who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body (for “the two,” it is said, “will become one”);

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 while a man who is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit?

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

18 Shun all immorality. Every other sin that people commit is something outside the body; but an immoral person sins against their 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 Again, don’t you know that your body is a shrine of the Holy Spirit that is within you – the Spirit which you have from God?

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 Moreover, you are not your own masters; you were bought, and the price was paid. Therefore, honour God in your bodies.

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