1 Corinthians 6

Disciples’ Literal New Testament

Take Your Disputes With Brothers To Wise Judges In The Church, Not To The World’s Courts

6 Does any one of you, having a matter against the other, dare to go-to-court^[a] before the unrighteous ones, and not before the saints? ² 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^[b]? ³ Do you not know that we will judge angels? Shall I not-indeed mention things-pertaining-to-this-life? ⁴ So indeed, if you have cases pertaining-to-this-life, are you seating^[c] these [as judges]— the ones having been of-no-account^[d] in the church? ⁵ I say this to your shame. So is there not among you anyone wise who will be able to discern^[e] between his brother and this brother?— ⁶ but brother is going-to-court against brother, and this before unbelievers?

Better To Be Wronged Than To Wrong Your Brother With a Lawsuit

⁷ So indeed, it is already actually a defeat^[f] for you that you have lawsuits with each other. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded^[g]? ⁸ But you are wronging and defrauding— and this [your own] brothers!

Wrongdoers Will Not Inherit The Kingdom. But You Were Cleansed of Such Things

⁹ Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit God’s kingdom? Do not be deceived. Neither sexually-immoral ones, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homo-erotic-partners^[h], nor homosexuals^[i], ¹⁰ nor thieves, nor greedy ones— not drunkards, not revilers, not swindlers— will inherit the kingdom of God. ¹¹ And some of you were these things. But you washed-them-away^[j], but you were sanctified^[k], but you were declared-righteous in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

Do Not Be Sexually Immoral

¹² “All^[l] things are lawful^[m] to me”, but not all things are beneficial^[n]. “All things are lawful to me”, but I will not be mastered by any. ¹³ Foods^[o] are for the stomach and the stomach for foods. But God will do-away-with^[p] both this and these. But the body is not for sexual-immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body. ¹⁴ And God both raised the Lord and will raise us up by His power.

Your Bodies Are Body-Parts of Christ: Flee Sexual Immorality

¹⁵ Do you not know that your bodies are body-parts^[q] of Christ? Therefore, having taken-away the body-parts of Christ, shall I make them body-parts of a prostitute? May it never be! ¹⁶ Or do you not know that the one joining himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For He says [in Gen 2:24] “the two will be one flesh”. ¹⁷ But the one joining himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him. ¹⁸ Be fleeing sexual immorality.

Your Body Is The Temple of The Holy Spirit. Glorify God In Your Body

Every sin which a person may do is outside the body. But the one committing-sexual-immorality is sinning against his own body. ¹⁹ Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit in you, Whom you have from God? And you are not your own^[r], ²⁰ for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body.