1 Corinthians 6

1 Dare any of you, having, a matter against his brother, sue for judgment before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?

How is it that anyone of you, having a dispute against another, would dare to be judged before the iniquitous, and not before the saints?

2 Or know ye not that, the saints, shall judge the world? And, if, by you, the world, is to be judged, unworthy are ye of the smallest judgment-seats?

Or do you not know that the saints from this age shall judge it? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you unworthy, then, to judge even the smallest matters?

3 Know ye not that we shall judge, messengers? and not, then, matters of this life?

Do you not know that we shall judge angels? How much more the things of this age?

4 If, then, for matters of this, life ye have judgment-seats, them who are of no account in the assembly, these, are ye seating thereupon?

Therefore, if you have matters to judge concerning this age, why not appoint those who are most contemptible in the Church to judge these things!

5 With a view to shame you, am I speaking. So, is it possible that there is among you—not so much as one wise man, who shall be able to judge between his brethren, —

But I am speaking so as to shame you. Is there no one among you wise enough, so that he might be able to judge between his brothers?

6 But, brother with brother, sueth for judgment, and that before unbelievers?

Instead, brother contends against brother in court, and this before the unfaithful!

7 Already, indeed, it is an utter defeat for you, that ye are having, law-suits, one with another. Wherefore are ye not rather taking wrong? Wherefore are ye not rather suffering yourselves to be defrauded?

Now there is certainly an offense among you, beyond everything else, when you have court cases against one another. Should you not accept injury instead? Should you not endure being cheated instead?

8 Nay! but, ye, are doing wrong, and defrauding, —and that [your] brethren.

But you are doing the injuring and the cheating, and this toward brothers!

9 Or know ye not that, wrong-doers, shall not inherit, God’s kingdom? Be not deceiving yourselves: —neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,

Do you not know that the iniquitous will not possess the kingdom of God? Do not choose to wander astray. For neither fornicators, nor servants of idolatry, nor adulterers,

10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners—shall inherit, God’s kingdom.

nor the effeminate, nor males who sleep with males, nor thieves, nor the avaricious, nor the inebriated, nor slanderers, nor the rapacious shall possess the kingdom of God.

11 And, these things, were some of you; but ye bathed them away, —but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified, in the name of [our] Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.

And some of you were like this. But you have been absolved, but you have been sanctified, but you have been justified: all in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

12 All things, unto me, are allowable, but, not all things, are profitable: all things, unto me, are allowable, but, I, will not be brought under authority by any.

All is lawful to me, but not all is expedient. All is lawful to me, but I will not be driven back by the authority of anyone.

13 Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods; but, God, will set aside, both it and them. The body, however, 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 shall destroy both the stomach and food. And the body is not for fornication, but rather for the Lord; and the Lord is for the body.

14 God, moreover, hath both raised up, the Lord, and will raise, us, up from among [the dead] through his power.

Truly, God has raised up the Lord, and he will raise us up by his power.

15 Know ye not that, your bodies, are, members of Christ? Shall I, then, take away the members of the Christ and make them members of a harlot? Far be it!

Do you not know that your bodies are a part of Christ? So then, should I take a part of Christ and make it a part of a harlot? Let it not be so!

16 Or know ye not that, he that joineth himself unto the harlot, is, one body? For, saith he, the two, shall become, one flesh;

And do you not know that whoever is joined to a harlot becomes one body? “For the two,” he said, “shall be as one flesh.”

17 But, he that joineth himself unto the Lord, is, one Spirit.

But whoever is joined to the Lord is one spirit.

18 Flee fornication! Every sin, whatsoever a man shall commit, is, outside his body, but, he that committeth fornication, bringeth sin into his own body.

Flee from fornication. Every sin whatsoever that a man commits is outside of the body, but whoever fornicates, sins against his own body.

19 Or know ye not that, your body, is, a shrine of the Holy Spirit that is within you, which ye have from God? And ye are not your own; —

Or do you not know that your bodies are the Temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?

20 For ye have been bought with a price! Therefore glorify God in your body.

For you have been bought at a great price. Glorify and carry God in your body.