1 Corinthians 6

Do any of you dare, having a dispute with another, to go to court before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?

Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy of the smallest cases?

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

So then, if you have legal disputes about things of this life, why do you appoint as judges these ones of no account in the church?

I speak to your shame. {Is it} thus that there is not any wise {man} among you who will be able to discern between his brothers?

But brother goes to court against brother, and this before unbelievers? \*

This, therefore, is indeed already a complete defeat for you, since you have lawsuits among yourselves. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?

But you do wrong and cheat, and this to your brothers! \*

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor practicing homosexuals

nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

And that {is what} some of you were. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. \*

“Everything is lawful for me,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is lawful for me,” but I will not be mastered by anything.

“Food {is} for the stomach, and the stomach for food,” but God will do away with both this and those. Now the body {is} not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord and the Lord for the body. \*

Now God indeed raised the Lord and will also raise up us by his power.

Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Therefore, having taken away the members of Christ, should I make {them} members of a prostitute? May it never be! \*

Or do you not know that the one being joined to the prostitute is one body? For it says, “The two will become as one flesh.”

But the one being joined to the Lord is one spirit. \*

Flee from sexual immorality! Every sin that a man might commit is outside the body, but the one being sexually immoral sins against his own body. \*

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit in you, whom you have from God? And you are not your own,

for you were bought with a price. Therefore, glorify God in your body. \*