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?

Doth any one of you, who hath a matter against another, dare to go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the holy?

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?

Or do ye not know, that the holy will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge in causes of the least importance?

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

Know ye not, that we shall pass judgment upon angels? How much more, concerning affairs of this 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?

If then ye have any causes relating to this life, set them to judge who are of no repute in the church.

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 speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you, not one that will be able to judge between his brethren?

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

Nay, brother goeth to law with brother, and that 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 altogether an evil among you, that ye have suits against each other. Why do ye not rather submit to wrong? Why do ye not rather allow yourselves to be defrauded?

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

But ye yourselves wrong, and defraud, and that too your brethren.

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,

Know ye not, that wrongdoers shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

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

nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall 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 such were some of you; but ye were washed, but ye were made holy, but ye were accepted as 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 all things are not profitable; all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of 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.

Meats are for the stomach, and the stomach for meats; but God will make an end of both it and them. 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 also raise up us by his 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!

Know ye 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.”

Know ye not, that he who is connected with a harlot is one body with her? “For the two,” saith he, “shall become one flesh;”

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

but he that is connected with the Lord is one spirit with him.

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 other sin which a man may commit, is apart from the body; but he that committeth fornication, sinneth 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,

Know ye not, that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God, and that 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.