1 Corinthians 6
1 Dare any of you, when he hath a controversy with his brother, litigate before the iniquitous, and not before the sanctified?
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 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?
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 Know ye not, that we shall judge angels? How much more things that are of the world?
Do you not know that we are to sit in judgement upon angels--to say nothing of things belonging to this life?
4 But if ye have a controversy about a worldly matter, seat ye on the bench for you those who are contemned 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 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:
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 a brother litigateth with his brother, and also before them that believe not!
but brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers?
7 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?
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 But ye yourselves commit wrong, and ye defraud even your brethren.
On the contrary you yourselves inflict injustice and fraud, and upon brethren too.
9 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,
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 the avaricious, nor thieves, nor drunkards, nor railers, nor extortioners, 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 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.
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 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.
Everything is allowable to me, but not everything is profitable. Everything is allowable to me, but to nothing will I become a slave.
13 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.
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 And God hath raised up our Lord; and he will 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 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.
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 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.
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 that joineth himself to our Lord, is with him one spirit.
But he who is in union with the Master is one with Him in spirit.
18 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.
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 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.
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 ye are bought with a price. Therefore, glorify ye God, with your body, and with your spirit, which are God's.
And you are not your own, for you have been redeemed at infinite cost. Therefore glorify God in your bodies.
