1 Corinthians 6

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Lawsuits among Believers

¹If any of you has a grievance against another, how dare he go to law before the unrighteous instead of before the saints!

¹Dare any one of you, having a matter against the other, go to be judged before the unrighteous and not before the saints?

²Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases?

²Or do you not know that saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy of the least of cases?

³Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life!

³Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of life?

⁴So if you need to settle everyday matters, do you appoint as judges those of no standing in the church?

⁴Therefore indeed, if you have cases as to the things of life, do you seat these, the ones being despised in the church?

⁵I say this to your shame. Is there really no one among you wise enough to arbitrate between his brothers?

⁵I speak to you for shame. Thus is there no one wise among you who will be able to discern in the midst of his brother?

⁶Instead, one brother goes to law against another, and this in front of unbelievers!

⁶But brother goes to be judged against brother, and this before unbelievers!

⁷The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means that you are thoroughly defeated already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?

⁷Therefore indeed, it is already altogether a defeat for you that you have lawsuits with one another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

⁸Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, even against your own brothers!^a

⁸But you do wrong and defraud, and this to brothers!

Members of Christ

⁹Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,

⁹Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be led astray: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals,

¹⁰nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.

¹⁰nor thieves, nor coveters, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.

¹¹And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

¹¹And some of you were these. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

¹²“Everything is permissible for me,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible for me,” but I will not be mastered by anything.

¹²“All things are lawful to me,” but not all things profit. “All things are lawful to me,” but I will not be mastered by anything.

¹³“Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will destroy them both. The body is not intended for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

¹³“Foods for the belly and the belly for foods,” but God will nullify both this and these. Now the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

¹⁴By His power God raised the Lord from the dead, and He will raise us also.

¹⁴And God both raised the Lord, and He will raise us up, through His power.

¹⁵Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!

¹⁵Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Having taken, then, the members of the Christ, shall I make them members of a prostitute? Never may it be!

¹⁶Or don’t you know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.”^a

¹⁶Or do you not know that the one being joined to the prostitute is one body? For it says, “The two will be into one flesh.”

¹⁷But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with Him in spirit.

¹⁷But the one being joined to the Lord is one spirit.

The Temple of the Holy Spirit

¹⁸Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.

¹⁸Flee the sexual immorality. Every sin, whatever a man might do, is outside the body, but the one committing sexual immorality sins against his own body.

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

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

²⁰you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.^a

²⁰for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body.