1 Corinthians 6

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

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?

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

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 the angels? How much more, then, can we judge matters of 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 make judgments that pertain to daily life, why do you lay such cases as these before those 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 your shame. Is there no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between brothers?

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

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

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 [suffer yourselves to] be defrauded?

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?

8 Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that [your] brethren.

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

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,

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

thieves, the greedy, drunkards, slanderers, and swindlers—none of them 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.

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.

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

“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.

13 Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body [is] not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

“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.

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

God both raised 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? God forbid.

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!

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

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.”

17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

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

18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

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.

19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost [which is] in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

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?

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 with your body.