1 Corinthians · Free Bible Version
1 Corinthians 6 Free Bible Version
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1 How dare any of you file a lawsuit before pagan judges if you have a dispute with your neighbor! Instead you should bring this before other believers.
1 Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?
2 Don't you know that Christian believers will judge the world? If you're going to judge the world, are you not fit to judge in the most minor cases?
2 Don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
3 Don't you know we are going to judge angels? How much more those things that relate to this life!
3 Don’t you know that we will judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life?
4 So if you have to judge things that relate to this life, how can you go to judges that are not respected by the church?
4 If then you have to judge things pertaining to this life, do you set them to judge who are of no account in the assembly?
5 I'm trying to shame you by saying this. What? You can't find one wise person among you who can settle a dispute that you have?
5 I say this to move you to shame. Isn’t there even one wise man among you who would be able to decide between his brothers?
6 Instead one believer takes another believer to court, and places the issue before unbelievers!
6 But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers!
7 The very fact you have lawsuits against each other already is a complete disaster. Wouldn't it be better to accept the injustice? Why not let yourselves be defrauded?
7 Therefore it is already altogether a defect in you that you have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?
8 But you would rather cause injustice and defraud even your fellow-believers in church.
8 No, but you yourselves do wrong and defraud, and that against your brothers.
9 Don't you know those who are unjust will not inherit the kingdom of God? Don't be fooled! People who are immoral, worship idols, commit adultery, are sexual perverts, homosexuals,
9 Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,
10 thieves, greedy, drunkards, abusers, or cheats, will not inherit the kingdom of God.
10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom.
11 Some of you were once like that, but you have been made clean and holy. You have been made right in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.
11 Some of you were such, but you were washed. You were sanctified. You were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.
12 People say, “I'm free to do anything”—but not everything is appropriate! “I'm free to do anything”—but I will not let anything control me! People say,
12 “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are expedient. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be brought under the power of anything.
13 “Food for the stomach, and the stomach for food”—but God will destroy both of them. Also, the body is not meant to be used for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
13 “Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not 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 up the same way.
14 Now God raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his power.
15 Don't you know your bodies are parts of Christ's body? Should I take the parts of Christ's body and join them to a prostitute? Absolutely not!
15 Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!
16 Don't you realize that anyone who has sex with a prostitute becomes “one body” with her? Remember that Scripture says, “The two will become one body.”
16 Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two”, he says, “will become one flesh.”
17 But whoever is joined to the Lord is one with him in spirit!
17 But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.
18 Stay away from sexual immorality! All other sins that people commit are outside of the body, but sexual immorality is a sin against your own body.
18 Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
19 Don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit that is within you, that you received from God?
19 Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
20 You don't belong to yourself—a price was paid for you! So glorify God in your body!
20 for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.
Cross references (20)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Matthew 18:15–17; Acts 19:38; 1 Corinthians 14:33; 1 Corinthians 6:6–7; 1 Corinthians 16:1
- 2 Matthew 19:28; Revelation 20:4; Daniel 7:22; Luke 22:30; Revelation 3:21
- 3 Jude 6; Matthew 25:41; 1 Corinthians 6:4; Luke 8:14; 2 Timothy 2:4
- 4 1 Corinthians 5:12; Acts 6:2–4
- 5 1 Corinthians 4:14; 1 Corinthians 15:34; James 3:13–18; 1 Corinthians 4:10; Proverbs 14:8
- 6 Philippians 2:14–15; 1 John 2:9–11; 2 Corinthians 6:14; 1 John 3:11–15; 1 Corinthians 6:1
- 7 Romans 12:17–19; Proverbs 20:22; Matthew 5:39–41; 1 Peter 2:19–23; 1 Peter 3:9
- 8 1 Thessalonians 4:6; Colossians 3:25; Malachi 3:5; Leviticus 19:13; James 5:4
- 9 1 Timothy 1:9–10; Galatians 5:19–21; Ephesians 5:4–5; Leviticus 20:13; Leviticus 18:22
- 10 1 Corinthians 5:11; Galatians 5:21; Ephesians 4:28; Ezekiel 22:29; Ezekiel 22:27
- 11 1 Corinthians 1:30; Colossians 3:5–7; 1 Corinthians 1:2; Romans 6:17–19; Acts 22:16
- 12 1 Corinthians 10:23–33; 1 Corinthians 9:27; Hebrews 12:15–16; Romans 14:14–23; 1 Corinthians 8:7–13
- 13 1 Corinthians 6:19; 1 Corinthians 3:16; Romans 6:12; 1 Corinthians 6:15; 1 Thessalonians 4:3–7
- 14 2 Corinthians 4:14; Romans 8:11; Ephesians 1:19–20; Philippians 3:21; Acts 2:24
- 15 Ephesians 5:30; Romans 12:5; Ephesians 4:15–16; Colossians 2:19; 1 Corinthians 12:27
- 16 Genesis 2:24; Ephesians 5:31; Mark 10:8; Matthew 19:5–6; Matthew 21:31–32
- 17 John 17:21–23; Galatians 2:20; 1 Corinthians 12:13; Ephesians 4:3–4; John 3:6
- 18 1 Peter 2:11; 1 Thessalonians 4:3; Colossians 3:5; Romans 6:12–13; 2 Timothy 2:22
- 19 1 Corinthians 3:16; 2 Corinthians 6:16; 1 Peter 2:5; Ephesians 2:21–22; 1 Corinthians 6:15–16
- 20 1 Corinthians 7:23; Romans 12:1; 1 Peter 2:9; 1 Peter 1:18; Hebrews 9:12
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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)
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.
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 …
… 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)
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)