1 Corinthians 6 - EasyEnglish Bible 2024（EASY）

Chapter 6Christians should judge quarrels between believers

1Perhaps one of you has a quarrel with another Christian. Who should decide which of you is right? You should never ask people who do not know God to decide. No! Instead, you should go to God's people. They should decide.

2It is God's people who will judge all the people in the world one day. You surely know that. So you should be able to decide about small quarrels between yourselves.

3You know that we will judge the angels one day. So we must be able to decide about ordinary things here on earth.

4If you want to decide an ordinary matter like that, what do you do? Why do you go to a judge that people in the church do not respect?

5I say this so that you will feel ashamed. There is surely a wise person in your group who could decide quarrels between yourselves.

6But instead, some believers among you accuse other believers in front of judges. And those judges are not believers!

7When you accuse each other like that, it shows that you have already failed. It would be better to accept it when other people hurt you. Even if people rob you, it would be better to accept it.

8Instead, you yourselves hurt other people, and you even rob them. And those other people are believers like you!

9 Wicked people will never belong to God's kingdom. You surely know that. Do not deceive yourselves. These kinds of people will not receive God's good things: People who have sex in wrong ways. People who worship idols. People who have sex with anyone that they are not married to. Men who have sex with other men.

10People who rob other people. People who want many things for themselves. Drunks. People who insult other people. People who deceive other people to take things from them. None of these people will receive the good things of God's kingdom.

11At one time, some of you were people like that. But God has now made you clean and pure, so that you belong to him. You have become right with God. Our God has done this with the power of his Spirit because you believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Use your bodies in a way that pleases God

12Some of you believers might say, ‘I am free to do anything that I want to do.’ That may be true, but not everything will help you. I could say, ‘I am free to do the things that I want to do.’ Yes, but I will not let anything like that have power over me.

13Some of you might say, ‘God made food to feed our bodies. That is why people have stomachs. But one day God will destroy both stomachs and food.’ Yes, but the Lord gave our bodies to us. Our bodies belong to the Lord. So you should not use your bodies to have sex in a wrong way.

14God raised the Lord Jesus after he died. And God will use his power to make us alive again too.

15You know that your bodies are parts of Christ's own body. So you must never take your body and make it join with a prostitute's body. Never do that with your body that belongs to Christ!

16Anyone who joins himself to a prostitute becomes one body with that prostitute. You should know that. It says in the Bible:

‘The man and the woman become as one body.’

17But everyone who joins himself to the Lord has the same spirit as him.

18So never have sex in a wrong way! You might say, ‘If a person does a bad thing, it is not his body that does it.’ But if you have sex in a wrong way, you are doing a bad thing to your own body.

19Remember this: your body is the home of God's Holy Spirit. God gave his Holy Spirit to you and he lives in you. You do not belong to yourselves any longer.

20God bought you for himself. He paid the price for you. So use your body to give honour to God.