1 ¶ ¿Osa alguno de vosotros, teniendo pleito con otro, ir a juicio delante de los injustos, y no delante de los santos?

Why do you go to court when you have something against another Christian? You are asking people who are not Christians to judge who is guilty. You should go to those who belong to Christ and ask them.

2 ¿ O no sabéis que los santos han de juzgar al mundo? Y si el mundo ha de ser juzgado por vosotros, ¿sois indignos de juzgar cosas muy pequeñas?

Did you not know that those who belong to Christ will someday judge this world? If you judge the people of the world as guilty, are you not able to do this in small things?

3 ¿ O no sabéis que hemos de juzgar a los ángeles? ¿Cuánto más las cosas de esta vida?

Did you not know that we are to judge angels? So you should be able to take care of your problem here in this world without any trouble.

4 P or tanto, si hubiereis de tener juicios de cosas de esta vida, poned por jueces a los más humildes que están en la Iglesia.

When you have things to decide about this life, why do you go to men in courts who are not even Christians?

5 P ara avergonzaros lo digo. ¿Pues qué, no hay entre vosotros sabio, ni aun uno que pueda juzgar entre sus hermanos?

You should be ashamed! Is it true that there is not one person wise enough in your church to decide who is right when people argue?

6 S ino que el hermano con el hermano pleitea en juicio; y esto delante de los infieles.

Instead, one Christian takes another Christian to court. And that court is made up of people who are not Christians!

7 A sí que, por cierto es ya una falta en vosotros que tengáis pleitos entre vosotros mismos. ¿Por qué no soportáis antes la injuria? ¿Por qué no soportáis antes la calumnia?

This shows you are wrong when you have to go to court against each other. Would it not be better to let someone do something against you that is wrong? Would it not be better to let them rob you?

8 P ero vosotros hacéis la injuria, y la calumnia, y esto a los hermanos.

Instead, you rob and do wrong to other Christians. The Body Is to Be Holy

9 ¶ ¿O no sabéis que los injustos no heredarán el Reino de Dios? No erréis, que ni los fornicarios, ni los idólatras, ni los adúlteros, ni los afeminados, ni los homosexuales,

Do you not know that sinful men will have no place in the holy nation of God? Do not be fooled. A person who does sex sins, or who worships false gods, or who is not faithful in marriage, or men who act like women, or people who do sex sins with their own sex, will have no place in the holy nation of God.

10 n i los ladrones, ni los avaros, ni los borrachos, ni los maldicientes, ni los estafadores, heredarán el Reino de Dios.

Also those who steal, or those who always want to get more of everything, or who get drunk, or who say bad things about others, or take things that are not theirs, will have no place in the holy nation of God.

11 Y esto érais algunos; mas ya sois lavados, mas ya sois santificados, mas ya sois justificados en el Nombre del Señor Jesús, y en el Espíritu del Dios nuestro.

Some of you were like that. But now your sins are washed away. You were set apart for God-like living to do His work. You were made right with God through our Lord Jesus Christ by the Spirit of our God.

12 ¶ Todas las cosas me son lícitas, mas no todas convienen; todas las cosas me son lícitas, mas yo no me meteré debajo de la potestad de ninguna.

I am allowed to do all things, but not everything is good for me to do! Even if I am free to do all things, I will not do them if I think it would be hard for me to stop when I know I should.

13 L as viandas son para el vientre, y el vientre para las viandas; sin embargo a él y a ellas deshará Dios. Mas el cuerpo no es para la fornicación, sino para el Señor; y el Señor para el cuerpo;

Food was meant for the stomach. The stomach needs food, but God will bring to an end both food and the stomach. The body was not meant for sex sins. It was meant to work for the Lord. The Lord is for our body.

14 y Dios que levantó al Señor, también a nosotros nos levantará con su poder.

God raised the Lord from death. He will raise us from death by His power also. The Body Belongs to the Lord

15 ¿ No sabéis que vuestros cuerpos son miembros de Cristo? ¿Quitaré pues los miembros de Cristo, y los haré miembros de una ramera? De ninguna manera.

Do you not know that your bodies are a part of Christ Himself? Am I to take a part of Christ and make it a part of a woman who sells the use of her body? No! Never!

16 ¿ O no sabéis que el que se junta con la ramera, es hecho con ella un cuerpo? Porque serán, dice, los dos (en) una carne.

Do you not know that a man who joins himself to a woman who sells the use of her body becomes a part of her? The Holy Writings say, “The two will become one.”

17 P ero el que se junta con el Señor, un espíritu es.

But if you join yourself to the Lord, you are one with Him in spirit.

18 H uid de la fornicación. Cualquier otro pecado que el hombre hiciere, fuera del cuerpo está; mas el que fornica, contra su propio cuerpo peca.

Have nothing to do with sex sins! Any other sin that a man does, does not hurt his own body. But the man who does a sex sin sins against his own body.

19 ¿ O ignoráis que vuestro cuerpo es templo del Espíritu Santo, (el cual está) en vosotros, el cual tenéis de Dios, y que no sois vuestros?

Do you not know that your body is a house of God where the Holy Spirit lives? God gave you His Holy Spirit. Now you belong to God. You do not belong to yourselves.

20 P orque comprados sois por (gran) precio; glorificad, pues, (y traed) a Dios en vuestro cuerpo y en vuestro espíritu, los cuales son de Dios.

God bought you with a great price. So honor God with your body. You belong to Him.