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 another, go unto judgment before the unjust, 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?

Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be 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 the 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 judgments of things pertaining to this life, set as judges the most humble who are in the congregation.

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 speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brothers?

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

But brother goes to judgment against brother, and that before the 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?

Now therefore there is certainly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather suffer the wrong? why do ye not rather be defrauded?

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

But ye do wrong and defraud and do this to your brothers.

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,

¶ Know ye not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers nor effeminate nor homosexuals

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 now ye are washed, but now ye are sanctified, but now ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus 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 unto me, but all things are not 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.

Foods are for the belly, and the belly for foods; but God shall destroy both it and them. Now 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, who raised up the Lord, will also raise up us by his own 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 the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them the members of a harlot? In no wise.

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.”

What? know ye not that he who is joined to the harlot is one body with her? For they shall be, saith he, two in 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. Any other sin that a man does is outside the body, but he that commits fornication sins 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?

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom ye have of God, and that ye are not your own?

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

For ye are bought with a price, therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.