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 another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?

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?

Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

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 shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?

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.

If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.

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

I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?

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

But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the 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 there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?

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

Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.

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,

Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

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

Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall 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 such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by 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 unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

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;

Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now 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 hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own 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 the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.

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’);

What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

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

But he that is joined unto 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 that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth 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?

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

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

For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.