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?

Dare any of you, having a matter of complaint against another, try it before the unjust, and not before 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 ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy of judging the smallest controversies?

3 Do not 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? what! and not worthy of judging the affairs of 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.

Therefore if ye have controversies about the things of this life, do ye set them to judge, who are despised by the church?

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

I speak it to your shame. What! is there not one wise man among you, that is able to judge between his bretheren?

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

But one brother goeth to law with another, and this before infidels.

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 there is certainly a fault among you, that ye have law-suits with one another: why do ye not rather endure wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?

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

But ye do wrong and defraud, and that even your brethren.

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,

What! know ye not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor sodomites, nor thieves,

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

nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor rapacious persons, 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 for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be 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 are for the belly, and the belly for meats, but God will destroy both it and them. 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 up us also by the exercise of his power.

And as God hath raised up the Lord, so will He raise up us 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!

Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of an harlot?

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’);

God forbid! What! know ye not that he who is joined to an harlot is one body with her? for these two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

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

And he that 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 from whoredom. Every other sin, that a man committeth, is without the body; but he, that committeth whoredom, sinneth 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?

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

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

and ye are not your own, for ye are bought with a price. Glorify God therefore in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.