1 Corintios 6
1 ¿Cómo es que si alguno de ustedes tiene una queja que presentar contra otro, lo toma ante un juez Gentil y no ante los santos?
[Now another matter]: When any of you [believers] accuses another believer about some matter, he takes that matter to judges who are not believers, [for them to decide the case], instead of asking God’s people [to decide it]. (That is disgusting!/Why do you do that?) [RHQ]
2 ¿No saben que los santos serán los jueces del mundo? si entonces el mundo será juzgado por ustedes, ¿no pueden tomar una decisión sobre las cosas más pequeñas?
[I want] you to know that [we who are] God’s people will [some day] judge those who are unbelievers. [RHQ] So, since you will be judging unbelievers, you certainly are capable of judging between [believers who disagree on] small matters! [RHQ]
3 ¿No saben que juzgaremos a los ángeles? ¿Cuánto más entonces de las cosas de esta vida?
(You should keep in mind that we will even judge angels!/Do you not know that we will even judge angels?) [RHQ] So we certainly should be able to judge about [matters that relate to how we] conduct our lives here on earth!
4 Si entonces hay preguntas para ser juzgadas en relación con las cosas de esta vida, ¿por qué las pones en manos de aquellos que no tienen ningún puesto en la iglesia?
Therefore, when you [believers] have a dispute, you should certainly not choose as judges [to decide your case] people whom the congregation cannot respect [because those judges are not believers]! [RHQ]
5 Digo esto para avergonzarlos. ¿No hay entre ustedes un sabio que pueda tomar una decisión entre sus hermanos?
I am saying this to make you ashamed. Surely there is someone among you who is wise enough to judge disputes between believers! [RHQ]
6 Pero pero no sólo se pelean unos hermano con otros, si no que llevan sus pleitos a los jueces incrédulos.
But instead, some believers [among you] accuse other believers in a legal court. And what is worse, you let the cases be judged by unbelievers {unbelievers judge the cases}!
7 Más que esto, tener pleitos entre ustedes mismos es un grave defecto ¿Por qué no, soportar la injusticia? ¿por qué no sufrir una pérdida?
The fact that you have any lawsuits among you [shows that] you have completely failed [as Christians] (OR, [allowed Satan to] defeat you). You should [allow other believers] to wrong you [without taking them to court!]! [RHQ] You should not accuse them when [they] cheat you! [RHQ]
8 Pero ustedes al contrario, ustedes mismos hacen mal y roban a sus propios hermanos.
But [what is happening is that] some of you are cheating others and doing wrong to them. [That is bad]. But you are doing that to fellow believers, [and that is worse]!
9 ¿No sabes que los injustos no tendrán parte en el reino de Dios? No se engañen: los fornicarios, e idólatras, o el adúltero, el afeminado, ni los que se echan con varones,
(You should keep in mind that wicked people will not become [members of] the group over whom God will rule./Do you not know that wicked people will not become [members of] the group over whom God will rule?) [RHQ] Do not be deceived {Do not deceive yourselves} [by thinking wrongly about these matters]. People who are sexually immoral, or who worship idols, or who (commit adultery/have sex with someone to whom they are not married), or who happily allow others to commit homosexual acts with them, or who take the initiative in committing homosexual acts,
10 ni los ladrones, ni borracho, ni los maldicientes ni los avaros, ni los estafadores, tendrá parte en el reino de Dios.
or who are thieves, or who desire and forcefully seize things that belong to others, or who are drunkards, or who slander others, or who are swindlers, will not enter the place where God rules.
11 Y tales fueron algunos de ustedes; pero ustedes han sido limpiados, han sido santificados, ya han sido librados de culpa en el nombre del Señor Jesucristo y por Espíritu de nuestro Dios.
Some of you previously did things like that. But [God] has freed/cleansed you [MET] [from your sinful behavior]. [He] has set you apart for himself. [He] has erased the record of your sins [because you trusted] [MTY] in the Lord Jesus Christ and because of what the Spirit of our God [has done for you].
12 Soy libre de hacer todas las cosas; pero no todas las cosas convienen. Soy libre de hacer todas las cosas; pero no me dejaré dominar por ninguna.
[Some of you may say], “God allows us to do anything [that he does not forbid].” But [I would reply], “[That is true], but not everything that God permits us to do helps us.” [Yes, as some of you say], God permits us to do anything [that he does not forbid]. But as for me, I will not let anything make me [its slave; that is, I will not do anything that will gain control over me in such a way that I will not be able to stop doing it].
13 La comida es para el estómago y el estómago para comer, y Dios los pondrá a todos juntos. Pero el cuerpo no es para los deseos de la carne, sino para el Señor; y el Señor para el cuerpo.
[Some of you may also say], “Food is just for [us to put in] the stomach, and the stomach is just for [us to put] food [in]. And since God will do away with food and stomachs [when he gives us our new bodies, what we do with our bodies sexually does not affect us any more than eating food does.” But what you have concluded is wrong, because] the Lord does not [want us to use] our bodies to do sexually immoral things. Instead, the Lord [wants us to use our bodies in ways that please him]. Also, the Lord [wants us to do what is good] for our bodies.
14 Y Dios que hizo resucitar a nuestro Señor Jesucristo hará lo mismo por nosotros con su poder.
God, by his power, caused the Lord [Jesus] to live again after he died, and he will cause us to live again after we die, [which shows that he is very concerned about our bodies].
15 ¿No ven que sus cuerpos son parte del cuerpo de Cristo? ¿cómo puedo tomar lo que es parte del cuerpo de Cristo y convertirlo en parte del cuerpo de una prostituta? Tal cosa no puede ser.
You should keep in mind that your bodies belong to Christ. [RHQ] So, should I [or any other believer] [RHQ] take our body, which belongs to Christ, and join it [sexually] to a prostitute? No, certainly not!
16 ¿O no sabes que el que está unido a una prostituta es un cuerpo con ella? porque Dios ha dicho: Los dos se convertirán en una sola carne.
When a man has sexual relations [EUP] with a prostitute, [it is as though] their two bodies become one body. (You should never forget that!/Do you not know that?) [RHQ] What [Moses] wrote [about people who join together sexually is], “The two of them will become [as though they are] one body.”
17 Pero el que está unido al Señor es un espíritu.
But anyone who is united {who joins himself} to the Lord becomes one with him spiritually.
18 Manténgase alejado de la inmoralidad sexual. Todo pecado que hace un hombre fuera del cuerpo; no afecta su cuerpo; pero el que comete inmoralidad sexual hace mal a su cuerpo.
Always (run away from/avoid) committing sexually immoral acts. Other sins that people commit do not affect their bodies, but those who commit sexually immoral acts sin against their own bodies.
19 ¿O no saben ustedes de que tu cuerpo es un templo del Espíritu Santo que está en ti y que Dios te ha dado? y ustedes no son dueños de ustedes mismos;
(Keep in mind that your bodies are [like] [MET] temples of the Holy Spirit./Do you not know that your bodies are [like] [MET] temples of the Holy Spirit?) [RHQ] The Spirit, whom God gave you, lives within you. You do not belong to yourselves. You belong to God,
20 Porque han sido comprados por un precio: por eso Dios debe ser honrado en su cuerpo y en su espíritu los cuales son de Dios.
[because when his Son died for you it was as though] [MET] [God] paid a price for you. So honor God by [how you use] your bodies!
