1 Corinthians 6
new testament
- 1 Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?
- 2 Or know ye not that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
- 3 Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more, things that pertain to this life?
- 4 If then ye have to judge things pertaining to this life, do ye set them to judge who are of no account in the church?
- 5 I say [this] to move you to shame. What, cannot there be [found] among you one wise man who shall be able to decide between his brethren,
- 6 but brother goeth to law with brother, and that before unbelievers?
- 7 Nay, already it is altogether a defect in you, that ye have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather take wrong? why not rather be defrauded?
- 8 Nay, but ye yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that [your] brethren.
- 9 Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men,
- 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
- 11 And such were some of you: but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.
- 12 All things are lawful for me; but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful for me; but I will not be brought under the power of any.
- 13 Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall bring to nought both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:
- 14 and God both raised the Lord, and will raise up as through his power.
- 15 Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ? shall I then take away the members of Christ, and make them members of a harlot? God forbid.
- 16 Or know ye not that he that is joined to a harlot is one body? for, The twain, saith he, shall become one flesh.
- 17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
- 18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
- 19 Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own;
- 20 for ye were bought with a price: glorify God therefore in your body.