1 Corinthians 6 - Amplified Bible(AMP)

Lawsuits Discouraged

1Does any one of you, when he has a complaint (civil dispute) with another, dare to go to law before unrighteous men (non-believers) instead of before the saints (God’s people)?

2Do you not know that the saints (God’s people) will judge the world? If the world is to be judged by you, are you not competent to try trivial (insignificant, petty) cases?

3Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more then matters of this life?

4So if you have lawsuits dealing with matters of this life, are you appointing those as judges who are of no account in the church?

5I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is not one wise man among you who will be able and competent to decide between his fellow believers,

6but instead, brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers?

7Why, the very fact that you have lawsuits with one another is already a defeat. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

8On the contrary, it is you who wrong and defraud, and you do this even to your brothers and sisters.

9Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit or have any share in the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor (perversely) effeminate, nor homosexuals,

10nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit or have any share in the kingdom of God.

11And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

The Body Is the Lord’s

12Everything is permissible for me, but not all things are beneficial. Everything is permissible for me, but I will not be enslaved by anything.

13Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food, but God will do away with both of them. The body is not intended for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.

14And God has not only raised the Lord, but will also raise us up by His power.

15Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Am I therefore to take the members of Christ and make them part of a prostitute? Certainly not!

16Do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For He says, “The two shall be one flesh.”

17But the one who is united and joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.

18Run away from sexual immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the one who is sexually immoral sins against his own body.

19Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is within you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?

20You were bought with a price. So then, honor and glorify God with your body.