1 Corinthians 6

1 Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?

Dare any of you, having a matter against the other, go to law before the unrighteous and not before the sanctified?

2 Do not you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

Or know ye not that the sanctified will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy of very small legal disputes?

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

Know ye not that we will judge agents? Then why not mundane things?

4 If then you have to judge things pertaining to this life, do you set them to judge who are of no account in the assembly?

Indeed therefore whenever ye have mundane legal disputes, men who are disdained by the church, these ye seat to judge.

5 I say this to move you to shame. Is not there even one wise man among you who would be able to decide between his brothers?

I speak shame about you. So there is not among you not even one wise man who will be able to arbitrate between his brother?

6 But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers!

But brother goes to law against brother, and this before unbelievers?

7 Therefore it is already altogether a defect in you that you have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

Now therefore it is indeed altogether a defeat for you because ye have legal disputes against yourselves. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

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

Instead ye do wrong, and defraud, and these things to brothers.

9 Or do not you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Do not be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

Or know ye not that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not led astray. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate men, nor homosexuals,

10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom.

nor greedy men, nor thieves, nor drunkards, nor the slanderous, nor the predatory will inherit the kingdom of God.

11 Some of you were such, but you were washed. You were sanctified. You were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

And some of you were these things, but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were made righteous in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

12 “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.

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 control by anything.

13 “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.

The foods are for the belly and the belly for foods, but God will abolish both this and these things. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

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

And God both raised up the Lord and will raise us up through his power.

15 Do not you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!

Know ye not that your bodies are body-parts of Christ? Therefore, having taken the body-parts of the Christ, should I make them body-parts of a harlot? May it not happen!

16 Or do not you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two”, he says, “will become one flesh.”

Or know ye not that he who is joined to a harlot is one body? For, The two, he says, will be in one flesh.

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

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

18 Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

Flee fornication. Every sin, whatever a man may do, is outside the body, but he who fornicates sins against his own body.

19 Or do not you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

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

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

for ye were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and your spirit, which is of God.