1 Corinthians 6:1–20

¹Does anyone of ​YOU​ that has a case against the other dare to go to court before unrighteous men, and not before the holy ones?²Or do ​YOU​ not know that the holy ones will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by ​YOU, are ​YOU​ unfit to try very trivial matters?³Do ​YOU​ not know that we shall judge angels? Why, then, not matters of this life?⁴If, then, ​YOU​ do have matters of this life to be tried, is it the men looked down upon in the congregation that ​YOU​ put in as judges?⁵I am speaking to move ​YOU​ to shame. Is it true that there is not one wise man among ​YOU​ that will be able to judge between his brothers,⁶but brother goes to court with brother, and that before unbelievers?

⁷Really, then, it means altogether a defeat for ​YOU​ that ​YOU​ are having lawsuits with one another. Why do ​YOU​ not rather let yourselves be wronged? Why do ​YOU​ not rather let yourselves be defrauded?⁸To the contrary, ​YOU​ wrong and defraud, and ​YOUR​ brothers at that.

⁹What! Do ​YOU​ not know that unrighteous persons will not inherit God’s kingdom? Do not be misled. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men kept for unnatural purposes, nor men who lie with men,¹⁰nor thieves, nor greedy persons, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit God’s kingdom.¹¹And yet that is what some of ​YOU​ were. But ​YOU​ have been washed clean, but ​YOU​ have been sanctified, but ​YOU​ have been declared righteous in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and with the spirit of our God.

¹²All things are lawful for me; but not all things are advantageous. All things are lawful for me; but I will not let myself be brought under authority by anything.¹³Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods; but God will bring both it and them to nothing. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord is for the body.¹⁴But God both raised up the Lord and will raise us up out of [death] through his power.

¹⁵Do ​YOU​ not know that ​YOUR​ bodies are members of Christ? Shall I, then, take the members of the Christ away and make them members of a harlot? Never may that happen!¹⁶What! Do ​YOU​ not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body? For, “The two,” says he, “will be one flesh.”¹⁷But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.¹⁸Flee from fornication. Every other sin that a man may commit is outside his body, but he that practices fornication is sinning against his own body.¹⁹What! Do ​YOU​ not know that the body of ​YOU​ people is [the] temple of the holy spirit within ​YOU, which ​YOU​ have from God? Also, ​YOU​ do not belong to yourselves,²⁰for ​YOU​ were bought with a price. By all means, glorify God in the body of ​YOU​ people.