1 Corinthians 6

1 Can it be that, when one of you has a dispute with another, he dares to have his case tried before the heathen, instead of before Christ’s People?

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

2 Do not 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 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?

3 Do not you know that we are to try angels — to say nothing of the affairs of this life?

Do you not know that we will 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 men who carry no weight with the Church? To your shame I ask it.

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

5 Can it be that there is not one man among you wise enough to decide between two of his Brothers?

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?

6 Must Brother go to law with Brother, and that, too, before unbelievers?

But brother goes to law with brother, and that 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?

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

8 Instead of this, you wrong and cheat others yourselves — yes, even your Brothers!

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

9 Do not you know that wrong-doers 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 sodomite,

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,

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 slanderers, nor swindlers, 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!

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.

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 the power of 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;

"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.

14 and, as God has raised the Lord, so he will raise up us also by the exercise of his power.

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

15 Do not 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!

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.

16 Or do not 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 do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For he says, "The two will become 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 men commit is something outside the body; but an immoral man sins against his own body.

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

19 Again, do not you know that your body is a shrine of the Holy Spirit that is within you – the Spirit which you have from God?

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,

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

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