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 one of you who has a grievance against his neighbor go to law before heathen judges, instead of before the saints?

2 Don’t 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?

Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be tried by you, are you unfit to try such trifling cases?

3 Don’t you know that we will judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life?

Do you not know that we are to try angels? How much more, then, the affairs of life.

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?

Why then, if you have cases relating to earthly affairs which need to be decided, is it men who are absolutely nothing in the church whom you make your judges?

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

I say this to shame you. Is it so that there is not among you a single wise man, capable of deciding between a man and his brother?

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

Must brother go to law with brother, and that, too, 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?

Indeed, to say nothing more, the fact that you have lawsuits with one another is altogether a defect in you. Why not rather suffer injustice? Why not rather endure being cheated?

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

On the contrary, you yourselves are inflicting injustice and fraud, and that upon your brothers.

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

Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. None who are immoral, or idolaters, or adulterers, or catamites, or sodomites,

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

or thieves, or avaricious men, or drunkards, or foul-mouthed men, or extortioners 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.

Such were some of you, but you have washed away your stains, you have been consecrated, you have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, 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"? Yes, but not all things are good for me. "All things are lawful for me"? Yes, but I will not let myself be enslaved by the power of any.

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.

"Food is meant for the stomach, and the stomach for food"? Yes, but God will soon put an end both to the one and to the other. The body, however, exists not for immorality, 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 the God who raised up our Lord will up-raise us also by his mighty power.

15 Don’t 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!

You know, do you not, that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a harlot? God forbid!

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

Do you not know that he who joins himself to a harlot is one with her in body? (For God says, The two shall become one flesh.)

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

While a man who is united with the Lord is one with Him in 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 from immorality. Every other sin that a man commits lies outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.

19 Or don’t 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,

Do you not know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is within you, the Spirit whom you have from God?

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

You are not your own; for you have been bought with a price, therefore glorify God in your bodies.