6:1 Does anyone among you who has a matter against another dare to go to a court of law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? |
6:2 Don't you know that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you unworthy of the most trivial of judgments? |
6:3 Don't you know that we shall judge angels? How much more then the things of this life? |
6:4 So then, if you have judgments concerning the things of this life, why do you appoint as judges those who have no standing in the church? |
6:5 Now I say this to your shame. Is it because there is not a wise man among you, not even one, who is able to decide between his brothers? |
6:6 Instead, brother goes to a court of law with brother, and this before unbelievers. |
6:7 Now therefore, there is altogether an utter fault among you, that you have lawsuits with one another. Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded? |
6:8 Instead, you are doing wrong and defrauding, and you are doing these things to your brethren. |
6:9 Don't you know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor abusers of themselves as women, nor homosexuals, |
6:10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. |
6:11 And such were some of you; but you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. |
6:12 All things that are lawful are permitted to me, but all things that are lawful are not beneficial; all things that are lawful are permitted to me, but I will not be mastered by anything. |
6:13 Foods are for the belly, and the belly is for foods; but God will destroy both it and those. Now the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. |
6:14 And God has also raised the Lord from the dead, and will raise us by His own power. |
6:15 Don't you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot? MAY IT NEVER BE! |
6:16 WHAT! Don't you know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body? For He says, "The two shall be one flesh." |
6:17 But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit. |
6:18 Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man may commit is outside the body, but the one who commits sexual immorality is sinning against his own body. |
6:19 WHAT! Don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, which you have within you from God, and you are not your own? |
6:20 For you were bought with a price. Therefore, glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. |