1 Corinthians 6

1 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?

Dare anyone of you, having a matter with the other, go to be judged before the unrighteous, and not before the holy ones?

2 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?

Have you not known that the holy ones will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy of the smaller judgments?

3 Do you not know that we are to sit in judgement upon angels--to say nothing of things belonging to this life?

Have you not known that we will judge messengers? Why not then the things of life?

4 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?

Of the things of life, indeed, then, if you may have judgment, those despised in the Assembly—these you cause to sit;

5 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,

I speak to your shame: so there is not among you one wise man, not even one, who will be able to discern in the midst of his brothers!

6 but brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers?

But brother with brother goes to be judged, and this before unbelievers!

7 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?

Already, indeed, then, there is altogether a fault among you, that you have judgments with one another; why do you not rather suffer injustice? Why not be defrauded?

8 On the contrary you yourselves inflict injustice and fraud, and upon brethren too.

But you do injustice, and you defraud, and these—brothers!

9 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,

Have you not known that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Do not be led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,

10 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.

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, will inherit the Kingdom of God.

11 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.

And certain of you were these! But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were declared righteous, in the Name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

12 Everything is allowable to me, but not everything is profitable. Everything is allowable to me, but to nothing will I become a slave.

All things are lawful to me, but all things are not profitable; all things are lawful to me, but I will not be under authority by any;

13 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;

the meats [are] for the belly, and the belly for the meats. And God will make useless both this and these; and the body [is] not for whoredom, but for the LORD, and the LORD for the body;

14 and as God by His power raised the Master to life, so He will also raise us up.

and God raised both the LORD, and will raise us up through His power.

15 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.

Have you not known that your bodies are members of Christ? Having taken, then, the members of the Christ, will I make [them] members of a prostitute? Let it not be!

16 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."

Have you not known that he who is joined to the prostitute is one body? For it says, “The two will be into one flesh.”

17 But he who is in union with the Master is one with Him in spirit.

And he who is joined to the LORD is one spirit;

18 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.

flee the whoredom; every sin—whatever a man may commit—is outside the body, and he who is committing whoredom sins against his own body.

19 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?

Have you not known that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit in you, which you have from God? And you are not your own,

20 And you are not your own, for you have been redeemed at infinite cost. Therefore glorify God in your bodies.

for you were bought with a price; glorify, then, God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.