1 Corinthians 6
1 If one of you has a dispute with another, how dare you take it to court before the unrighteous instead of before the saints?
2 Or don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you unfit to judge the smallest cases?
3 Don’t you know that we will judge angels? How much more, then, matters of this life!
4 So if you have disputes about matters of this life, do you appoint as judges those who are looked down on in the church?
5 I say this to shame you. Is there really not one wise person among you who can settle a dispute between his brothers?
6 Instead, brother goes to court against brother—and this in front of unbelievers!
7 The fact that you have lawsuits against one another is already a complete defeat for you. Why not rather suffer injustice? Why not rather be cheated?
8 But you yourselves do wrong and cheat, and you do it to your brothers.
9 Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who are effeminate, nor men who have sex with men,
10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
11 And some of you were like that. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were declared righteous in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
12 Everything is permissible for me, but not everything is beneficial. Everything is permissible for me, but I will not be mastered by anything.
13 Food is for the stomach, and the stomach is for food; but God will bring both to an end. The body, however, is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.
14 And God, who raised the Lord, will also raise us by his power.
15 Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take Christ’s members and make them members of a prostitute? Absolutely not!
16 Or don’t you know that whoever joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For, he says, “The two will become one flesh.”
17 But whoever is joined to the Lord is one spirit with him.
18 Flee sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but whoever commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
19 Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you received from God? And you are not your own.
20 For you were bought at a price. So glorify God in your body.
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