1 Corinthians 6

1 When one of you has a dispute with another, does he dare to go to the civil court before an unbelieving judge, rather than before the saints?

Doth any one of you, who hath a matter against another, dare to go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the holy?

2 Do you not know that the believers will judge the world? If then, you will judge the world, are you not able to settle matters of little importance?

Or do ye not know, that the holy will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge in causes of the least importance?

3 Do you not know that we will judge the angels? How much more, then, can we judge matters of this life?

Know ye not, that we shall pass judgment upon angels? How much more, concerning affairs of this life?

4 If then you have to make judgments that pertain to daily life, why do you lay such cases as these before those who have no standing in the church?

If then ye have any causes relating to this life, set them to judge who are of no repute in the church.

5 I say this to your shame. Is there no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between brothers?

I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you, not one that will be able to judge between his brethren?

6 But as it stands, one believer goes to court against another believer, and that case is placed before a judge who is an unbeliever!

Nay, brother goeth to law with brother, and that before unbelievers.

7 The fact that there are any disputes at all between Christians is already a defeat for you. Why not rather suffer the wrong? Why not rather allow yourselves to be cheated?

Now therefore it is altogether an evil among you, that ye have suits against each other. Why do ye not rather submit to wrong? Why do ye not rather allow yourselves to be defrauded?

8 But you have wronged and cheated others, and these are your own brothers!

But ye yourselves wrong, and defraud, and that too your brethren.

9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not believe lies. The sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes, those who practice homosexuality,

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

10 thieves, the greedy, drunkards, slanderers, and swindlers—none of them will inherit the kingdom of God.

nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

11 That is what some of you were like. But you have been cleansed, you have been sanctified, you have been made right with God in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

And such were some of you; but ye were washed, but ye were made holy, but ye were accepted as righteous in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

12 “Everything is lawful for me,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is lawful for me,” but I will not be mastered by any of them.

All things are lawful for me, but all things are not profitable; all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of anything.

13 “Food is for the stomach, and the stomach is for food,” but God will do away with both of them. The body is not intended for sexual immorality. Instead, the body is for the Lord, and the Lord will provide for the body.

Meats are for the stomach, and the stomach for meats; but God will make an end of both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

14 God both raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power.

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

15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take away the members of Christ and join them to a prostitute? May it not be!

Know ye not, that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a harlot? God forbid!

16 Do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one flesh with her? As scripture says, “The two will become one flesh.”

Know ye not, that he who is connected with a harlot is one body with her? “For the two,” saith he, “shall become one flesh;”

17 But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him.

but he that is connected with the Lord is one spirit with him.

18 Run away from sexual immorality! Every other sin that a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.

Flee fornication. Every other sin which a man may commit, is apart from the body; but he that committeth fornication, sinneth against his own body.

19 Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives within you, whom you have from God? Do you not know that you are not your own?

Know ye not, that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God, and that ye are not your own?

20 For you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.

For ye were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body.