Chapter 6
1 Dare any of you , having a matter against his neighbour, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?
2 Don’ t you know that the saints will judge the world ? And if the world is judged by you , are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters ?
3 Don’t you know that we will judge angels? How much more , things that pertain to this life?
4 If then you have to judge things pertaining to this life, do you set them to judge who are of no account in the assembly ?
5 I say this to move you to shame . Isn’ t there even one wise man amongst you who would be able to decide between his brothers?
6 But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers!
7 Therefore it is already altogether a defect in you that you have lawsuits one with another . Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?
8 No , but you yourselves do wrong and defraud, and that against your brothers.
9 Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God ’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived . Neither the sexually immoral , nor idolaters , nor adulterers , nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,
10 nor thieves , nor covetous , nor drunkards , nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God ’s Kingdom.
11 Some of you were such , but you were washed. You were sanctified. You were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus , 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 anything .
13 " Foods for the belly , and the belly for foods ," but God will bring to nothing both it and them . But the body is not for sexual immorality , but for the Lord , and the Lord for the body .
14 Now God raised up the Lord , and will also raise us up by his power .
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 prostitute ? May it never be !
16 Or don’ t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body ? For , " The two ", he says , " will become one flesh ."
17 But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit .
18 Flee sexual immorality ! " Every sin that a man does is outside the body ," but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body .
19 Or don’ t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you , whom you have from God ? You are not your own ,
20 for you were bought with a price . Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit , which are God ’s.