1 D are any one of you, having a matter with the other, go to be judged before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?

Does 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?

2 h ave ye not known that the saints shall judge the world? and if by you the world is judged, are ye unworthy of the smaller judgments?

Or 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?

3 h ave ye not known that we shall judge messengers? why not then the things of life?

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

4 o f the things of life, indeed, then, if ye may have judgment, those despised in the assembly -- these cause ye to sit;

So 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?

5 u nto your shame I speak: so there is not among you one wise man, not even one, who shall be able to discern in the midst of his brethren!

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,

6 b ut brother with brother doth go to be judged, and this before unbelievers!

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

7 A lready, indeed, then, there is altogether a fault among you, that ye have judgments with one another; wherefore do ye not rather suffer injustice? wherefore be ye not rather defrauded?

Actually, 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?

8 b ut ye -- ye do injustice, and ye defraud, and these -- brethren!

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

9 h ave ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,

Or 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,

10 n or thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, the reign of God shall inherit.

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

11 A nd certain of you were these! but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were declared righteous, in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

Such 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

12 A ll things are lawful to me, but all things are not profitable; all things are lawful to me, but I -- I will not be under authority by any;

All 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.

13 t he meats for the belly, and the belly for the meats. And God both this and these shall make useless; and the body not for whoredom, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

Food 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.

14 a nd God both the Lord did raise, and us will raise up through His power.

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

15 H ave ye not known that your bodies are members of Christ? having taken, then, the members of the Christ, shall I make members of an harlot? let it be not!

Do 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!

16 h ave ye not known that he who is joined to the harlot is one body? `for they shall be -- saith He -- the two for one flesh.'

Or 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.”

17 A nd he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit;

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

18 f lee the whoredom; every sin -- whatever a man may commit -- is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

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

19 H ave ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own,

Or 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?

20 f or ye were bought with a price; glorify, then, God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

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