1 Corinthians 6

1 Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?

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

2 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?

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 Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?

Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life?

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

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 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?

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

But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers.

7 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 allow yourselves to be defrauded?

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

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

9 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,

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

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.

11 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.

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 All things are lawful to me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

"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 is for the stomach, and the stomach is for food: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is 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 God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.

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

15 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? By no means.

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

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 But he that is joined to the Lord is one spirit.

But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.

18 Flee immorality. Every sin that a man doeth is outside the body; but he that committeth immorality sinneth 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 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, which ye have from God, and ye are not your own?

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

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