1 W hy 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.

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

2 D id 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?

Do 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?

3 D id 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.

Do ye not know that we shall judge angels? and not then matters of this life?

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

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

5 Y ou 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?

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!

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

But brother prosecutes his suit with brother, and that before unbelievers.

7 T his 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?

Already 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?

8 I nstead, you rob and do wrong to other Christians. The Body Is to Be Holy

But ye do wrong, and defraud, and this brethren.

9 D o 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.

Do 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,

10 A lso 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.

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

11 S ome 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.

And 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.

12 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.

All 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.

13 F ood 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.

Meats 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.

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

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

15 D o 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!

Do 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.

16 D o 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.”

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

17 B ut if you join yourself to the Lord, you are one with Him in spirit.

But he that joined to the Lord is one Spirit.

18 H ave 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.

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

19 D o 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.

Do 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?

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

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