1 Lawsuits Among Believers Does any one of you, when he has a 6:1 Lit matter case against another, dare to be tried before the unrighteous and not before the 6:1 Or holy ones saints?
2 Or do you not know that the 6:2v1,note 2 saints will judge the world? If the world is judged by you, are you not worthyto 6:2Or try the trivial cases? constitutethe smallest law courts?
3 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 I saythisto your shame.Is it reallythis way: there is not one wise man among you who will be able to pass judgment between his brothers?
6 On the contrary, brother is tried with brother, and that before unbelievers!
7 Actually, then, it is already a failure for you, that you have lawsuits with one another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?
8 On the contrary, you yourselves wrong and defraud.You dothis even toyourbrothers.
9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neitherthesexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor 6:9Effeminate by perversion effeminate, nor homosexuals,
10 nor thieves, northegreedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.
11 And such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.Flee Sexual Immorality
12 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 Food is for the 6:13Lit belly stomach and the 6:13Lit belly stomach is for food, but God will do away with both 6:13Lit it and them of them. Yet the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.
14 Now God has not only raised the Lord, but will also raise us up through His power.
15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take away the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!
16 Or do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one bodywith her? For He says, “The two shall become one flesh.”
17 But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spiritwith Him.
18 Flee sexual immorality. Everyothersin that a man commits is outside the body, but the 6:18 Or one who practices sexual immorality sexually immoral man sins against his own body.
19 Or do you not know that your body is a 6:19The inner part of the temple sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from 6:19Or God? And you are not your own. God, and that you are not your own?
20 For you were bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.