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1 If any of you has a grievance against another, how dare he go to law before the unrighteous instead of before the saints! 2 Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases? 3 Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life! 4 So if you need to settle everyday matters, do you appoint as judges those of no standing in the church? 5 I say this to your shame. Is there really no one among you wise enough to arbitrate between his brothers? 6 Instead, one brother goes to law against another, and this in front of unbelievers! 7 The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means that you are thoroughly defeated already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated? 8 Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, even against your own brothers! 9 Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts, 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. 12 “Everything is permissible for me,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible for me,” but I will not be mastered by anything. 13 “Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will destroy them both. The body is not intended for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14 By His power God raised the Lord from the dead, and He will raise us also. 15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! 16 Or don’t you know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.” 17 But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with Him in spirit. 18 Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. 19 Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20 you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.

Cross references (20)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Matthew 18:15–17; Acts 19:38; 1 Corinthians 14:33; 1 Corinthians 6:6–7; 1 Corinthians 16:1
  2. 2 Matthew 19:28; Revelation 20:4; Daniel 7:22; Luke 22:30; Revelation 3:21
  3. 3 Jude 6; Matthew 25:41; 1 Corinthians 6:4; Luke 8:14; 2 Timothy 2:4
  4. 4 1 Corinthians 5:12; Acts 6:2–4
  5. 5 1 Corinthians 4:14; 1 Corinthians 15:34; James 3:13–18; 1 Corinthians 4:10; Proverbs 14:8
  6. 6 Philippians 2:14–15; 1 John 2:9–11; 2 Corinthians 6:14; 1 John 3:11–15; 1 Corinthians 6:1
  7. 7 Romans 12:17–19; Proverbs 20:22; Matthew 5:39–41; 1 Peter 2:19–23; 1 Peter 3:9
  8. 8 1 Thessalonians 4:6; Colossians 3:25; Malachi 3:5; Leviticus 19:13; James 5:4
  9. 9 1 Timothy 1:9–10; Galatians 5:19–21; Ephesians 5:4–5; Leviticus 20:13; Leviticus 18:22
  10. 10 1 Corinthians 5:11; Galatians 5:21; Ephesians 4:28; Ezekiel 22:29; Ezekiel 22:27
  11. 11 1 Corinthians 1:30; Colossians 3:5–7; 1 Corinthians 1:2; Romans 6:17–19; Acts 22:16
  12. 12 1 Corinthians 10:23–33; 1 Corinthians 9:27; Hebrews 12:15–16; Romans 14:14–23; 1 Corinthians 8:7–13
  13. 13 1 Corinthians 6:19; 1 Corinthians 3:16; Romans 6:12; 1 Corinthians 6:15; 1 Thessalonians 4:3–7
  14. 14 2 Corinthians 4:14; Romans 8:11; Ephesians 1:19–20; Philippians 3:21; Acts 2:24
  15. 15 Ephesians 5:30; Romans 12:5; Ephesians 4:15–16; Colossians 2:19; 1 Corinthians 12:27
  16. 16 Genesis 2:24; Ephesians 5:31; Mark 10:8; Matthew 19:5–6; Matthew 21:31–32
  17. 17 John 17:21–23; Galatians 2:20; 1 Corinthians 12:13; Ephesians 4:3–4; John 3:6
  18. 18 1 Peter 2:11; 1 Thessalonians 4:3; Colossians 3:5; Romans 6:12–13; 2 Timothy 2:22
  19. 19 1 Corinthians 3:16; 2 Corinthians 6:16; 1 Peter 2:5; Ephesians 2:21–22; 1 Corinthians 6:15–16
  20. 20 1 Corinthians 7:23; Romans 12:1; 1 Peter 2:9; 1 Peter 1:18; Hebrews 9:12

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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Commentary 6:12 John Chrysostom, Homilies on First Corinthians (Homily XVII)

    lawful:" but of things which seem to be indifferent. To illustrate my meaning: "It is lawful," he says, "to eat and to drink; but it is not expedient with excess." And so that marvellous and unexpected turn of his, which he is often wont to adopt; (Cf. Rom. xii. 21; 1 Cor. vii.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 12 (1889)

  2. Quotes verse 6:9 Polycarp of Smyrna, Epistle to the Philippians (The Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians)

    For it is well that they should be cut off from the lusts that are in the world, since "every lust warreth against the spirit;" and "neither fornicators, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, shall inherit the kingdom of God," nor those who do things inconsistent and unbecoming.

    Read in context · Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885)

  3. Quotes verse 6:9 Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies (Book IV, Chapters XXV–XXVI)

    Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, not effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God." And as it was not to those who are without that he said these things, but to us, lest we should be cast forth from the kingdom …

    Read in context · Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885)

  4. Quotes verse 6:3 Augustine of Hippo, The City of God (Book XX, Chapters 3–5)

    … of Judas the traitor, the Apostle Paul, though he labored more than them all, should have no throne of judgment; but he unmistakeably considers himself to be included in the number of the judges when he says, "Know ye not that we shall judge angels?" The same rule is to be observed in applying the number twelve to those who …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)

  5. Quotes verse 6:11 John Chrysostom, Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew (Homily X)

    And Paul too saith, "But ye are washed, but ye are sanctified," not by the baptism of John, but "in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the Spirit of our God." And elsewhere too he saith, "John verily preached a baptism of repentance," (he saith not "of remission,") "that they should believe on Him that should come …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)