1 D are any one of you, having a matter against another, prosecute his suit before the unjust, and not before the saints?

Does any of you dare, when he has a matter of complaint against another, to go to law before unrighteous men instead of before the saints (the people of God)?

2 D o ye not then know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy of smallest judgments?

Do you not know that the saints (the believers) will judge and govern the world? And if the world is to be judged and ruled by you, are you unworthy and incompetent to try of the smallest courts of justice?

3 D o ye not know that we shall judge angels? and not then matters of this life?

Do you not know also that we are to judge the angels and pronounce opinion between right and wrong ? How much more then matters pertaining to this world and of this life only!

4 I f then ye have judgments as to things of this life, set those who are little esteemed in the assembly.

If then you do have such cases of everyday life to decide, why do you appoint those who of the church count for least and are without standing?

5 I speak to you to shame. Thus there is not a wise person among you, not even one, who shall be able to decide between his brethren!

I say this to move you to shame. Can it be that there really is not one man among you who is wise and competent enough to decide between members of the brotherhood,

6 B ut brother prosecutes his suit with brother, and that before unbelievers.

But brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers ?

7 A lready indeed then it is altogether a fault in you that ye have suits between yourselves. Why do ye not rather suffer wrong? why are ye not rather defrauded?

Why, the very fact of your having lawsuits with one another at all is a defect (a defeat, an evidence of positive moral loss for you). Why not rather let yourselves suffer wrong and be deprived of what is your due? Why not rather be cheated (defrauded and robbed)?

8 B ut ye do wrong, and defraud, and this brethren.

But yourselves who wrong and defraud, and that even your own brethren!

9 D o ye not know that unrighteous shall not inherit kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who make women of themselves, nor who abuse themselves with men,

Do you not know that the unrighteous and the wrongdoers will not inherit or have any share in the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived (misled): neither the impure and immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who participate in homosexuality,

10 n or thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor abusive persons, nor rapacious, shall inherit kingdom of God.

Nor cheats (swindlers and thieves), nor greedy graspers, nor drunkards, nor foulmouthed revilers and slanderers, nor extortioners and robbers will inherit or have any share in the kingdom of God.

11 A nd these things were some of you; but ye have been washed, but ye have been sanctified, but ye have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

And such some of you were. But you were washed clean (purified by a complete atonement for sin and made free from the guilt of sin), and you were consecrated (set apart, hallowed), and you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

12 A ll things are lawful to me, but all things do not profit; all things are lawful to me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

Everything is permissible (allowable and lawful) for me; but not all things are helpful (good for me to do, expedient and profitable when considered with other things). Everything is lawful for me, but I will not become the slave of anything or be brought under its power.

13 M eats for the belly, and the belly for meats; but God will bring to nothing both it and them: but the body not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

Food for the stomach and the stomach for food, but God will finally end both and bring them to nothing. The body is not intended for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body '> to save, sanctify, and raise it again].

14 A nd God has both raised up the Lord, and will raise us up from among by his power.

And God both raised the Lord to life and will also raise us up by His power.

15 D o ye not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then, taking the members of the Christ, make members of a harlot? Far be the thought.

Do you not see and know that your bodies are members (bodily parts) of Christ (the Messiah)? Am I therefore to take the parts of Christ and make parts of a prostitute? Never! Never!

16 D o ye not know that he joined to the harlot is one body? for the two, he says, shall be one flesh.

Or do you not know and realize that when a man joins himself to a prostitute, he becomes one body with her? The two, it is written, shall become one flesh.

17 B ut he that joined to the Lord is one Spirit.

But the person who is united to the Lord becomes one spirit with Him.

18 F lee fornication. Every sin which a man may practise is without the body, but he that commits fornication sins against his own body.

Shun immorality and all sexual looseness. Any other sin which a man commits is one outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

19 D o ye not know that your body is temple of the Holy Spirit which in you, which ye have of God; and ye are not your own?

Do you not know that your body is the temple (the very sanctuary) of the Holy Spirit Who lives within you, Whom you have received from God? You are not your own,

20 f or ye have been bought with a price: glorify now then God in your body.

You were bought with a price '> preciousness and paid for, made His own]. So then, honor God and bring glory to Him in your body.