1 Corinthians 6
Legacy Standard Bible
Lawsuits Among Believers
6 Does any one of you, when he has a [a]case against another, dare to be tried before the unrighteous and (A)not before the [b]saints? 2 Or (B)do you not know that (C)the [c]saints will judge (D)the world? If the world is judged by you, are you not worthy to [d]constitute the smallest law courts? 3 (E)Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more matters of this life? 4 So if you have law courts dealing with matters of this life, do you appoint those who are of no account in the church as judges? 5 (F)I say this to your shame. Is it really this way: there is not one wise man among you who will be able to pass judgment between his (G)brothers? 6 On the contrary, brother is tried with brother, and that before (H)unbelievers!
7 Actually, then, it is already a failure for you, that you have lawsuits with one another. (I)Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded? 8 On the contrary, you yourselves wrong and defraud. You do this even to your (J)brothers.
9 Or (K)do you not know that the unrighteous will not (L)inherit the kingdom of God? (M)Do not be deceived; (N)neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor [e]effeminate, nor homosexuals, 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will (O)inherit the kingdom of God. 11 (P)And such were some of you; but you were (Q)washed, but you were (R)sanctified, but you were (S)justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.
Flee Sexual Immorality
12 (T)All things are lawful for me, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be mastered by anything. 13 (U)Food is for the [f]stomach and the [g]stomach is for food, but God will (V)do away with both [h]of them. Yet the body is not for sexual immorality, but (W)for the Lord, and (X)the Lord is for the body. 14 Now God has not only (Y)raised the Lord, but (Z)will also raise us up through His power. 15 (AA)Do you not know that (AB)your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take away the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? (AC)May it never be! 16 Or (AD)do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For He says, “(AE)The two shall become one flesh.” 17 But the one who joins himself to the Lord is (AF)one spirit with Him. 18 (AG)Flee sexual immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the [i]sexually immoral man sins against his own body. 19 Or (AH)do you not know that (AI)your body is a [j]sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from [k]God, and that (AJ)you are not your own? 20 For (AK)you were bought with a price: therefore glorify God in (AL)your body.
Footnotes
- 1 Corinthians 6:1 Lit matter
- 1 Corinthians 6:1 Or holy ones
- 1 Corinthians 6:2 v 1, note 2
- 1 Corinthians 6:2 Or try the trivial cases?
- 1 Corinthians 6:9 Effeminate by perversion
- 1 Corinthians 6:13 Lit belly
- 1 Corinthians 6:13 Lit belly
- 1 Corinthians 6:13 Lit it and them
- 1 Corinthians 6:18 Or one who practices sexual immorality
- 1 Corinthians 6:19 The inner part of the temple
- 1 Corinthians 6:19 Or God? And you are not your own.
1 Corinthians 6
Worldwide English (New Testament)
6 When one of you has some complaint against a Christian brother, why does he take him to be judged by those who are not Christians? Why does he not take him to God's people?
2 Do you not know that some day God's people will judge the world? If you are going to judge the world, can you not judge small things now?
3 Do you not know that we shall judge angels? Then we should surely be able to judge things in this life!
4 So if you have complaints about things in this life, why do you take them to those who are not church people?
5 Shame on you! Are none of you wise enough to judge between two Christian brothers?
6 But now one Christian brother takes another Christian brother to be judged by people who are not Christians.
7 It is wrong for you to take each other to court at all. You should be willing to take wrong. It would be better to lose.
8 Instead, you are doing wrong to your own Christian brothers.
9-10 Do you not know that bad people will have no part in the kingdom where God rules? Do not be fooled. There are some people who will not have part in that place. They are those who commit adultery of any kind, those who have idols, or steal, or are always wanting more, or talk wrong things about people, or drink plenty of strong drink, or take things by force, or curse.
11 Some of you were like that. But now you have been washed and made holy. The Spirit of our God has made you right by the name of the Lord Jesus.
12 I am free to do anything I want, but some things are not good for me to do. I am free to do anything, but I will not become a slave of anything.
13 `Food is for the body, and the body is for food.' But God will bring both to an end. The body is not made to be used for wrong sex behaviour, but for the Lord. And the Lord is for the body.
14 God raised up the Lord and he will also raise us up by his power.
15 Do you not know that your bodies belong to Christ? Shall I take parts of Christ and join them to a bad woman? No, never!
16 Do you not know that the person who joins himself to a bad woman becomes one person with her? The holy writings say, `The two people shall be like one body.'
17 But the one who joins himself with the Lord becomes one spirit with him.
18 Run away from every kind of wrong sex! Every other wrong thing which a person does is done outside of his body. But the person who uses sex the wrong way does a wrong thing to his own body.
19 Do you not know that your body is the house of the Holy Spirit who lives in you? God gave the Holy Spirit to you. Remember, you do not belong to yourself.
20 But you were bought and paid for. So then, bring glory to God with your bodies.
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