1 D oes any one of you, when he has a case against his neighbor, dare to go to law before the unrighteous and not before the saints?

Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?

2 O r do you not know that the saints will judge the world? If the world is judged by you, are you not competent to constitute the smallest law courts?

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 D o you not know that we will judge angels? How much more matters of this life?

Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more, things that pertain to this life?

4 S o if you have law courts dealing with matters of this life, do you appoint them as judges who are of no account in the church?

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 your shame. Is it so, that there is not among you one wise man who will be able to decide between his brethren,

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 b ut brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers?

but brother goeth to law with brother, and that before unbelievers?

7 A ctually, then, it is already a defeat for you, that you have lawsuits with one another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

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 O n the contrary, you yourselves wrong and defraud. You do this even to your brethren.

Nay, but ye yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.

9 O r do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals,

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 n or thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

11 S uch were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God. The Body Is the Lord’s

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 A ll things are lawful for me, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be mastered by anything.

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 F ood is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both of them. Yet the body is not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.

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 N ow God has not only raised the Lord, but will also raise us up through His power.

and God both raised the Lord, and will raise up as through his power.

15 D o you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take away the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!

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 O r do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her ? For He says, “ The two shall become one flesh.”

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 B ut the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him.

But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

18 F lee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

19 O r do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?

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 F or you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.

for ye were bought with a price: glorify God therefore in your body.