1 Corinthians 6

1 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?

How can anyone of you who has a dispute with another dare to have it judged before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?

2 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?

Do you not know that the saints are to be judging the world? So if the world is to be judged by you, are you not competent to judge the smallest matters?

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

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

4 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!

Therefore, if you have disputes about such matters, appoint those who are least esteemed in the congregation to judge!

5 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?

I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is not a single wise man among you who would be competent to judge between a man and his brother?

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

Instead, brother goes to law against brother, and this before unbelievers!

7 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?

Actually, the very fact that you have lawsuits among you already represents a defeat for you. Why do you not rather accept wrong? Why not rather accept being cheated?

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

No, you yourselves do the wronging and cheating, and to brothers!

9 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,

Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor catamites, nor sodomites,

10 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.

nor the greedy, nor thieves, nor drunkards, nor the abusive, nor swindlers can inherit the Kingdom of God, absolutely.

11 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.

And that is what some of you were; but you were bathed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

12 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.

All things are ‘permissible’ for me, but not all things are expedient. All things are ‘permissible’ for me, but I will not be mastered by anything.

13 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.

Foods for the stomach and the stomach for foods, but God will destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

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

Further, God both raised up the Lord and will also raise up us by His power.

15 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!

Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Not ever!

16 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.”

Can you not know that the one who joins himself with a prostitute is one body with her? For “the two,” He says, “will become one flesh.”

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

But he who is joined with the Lord is one spirit with Him.

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

Flee from fornication! Every sin that a man may commit is outside the body, but he who fornicates sins against his own body.

19 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?

Do you not know that your bodies are a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?

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

Because you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.