1 Corinthians 6
6
Lawsuits against Fellow-Christians
1If any of you have a dispute with another Christian, how dare you go before heathen judges instead of letting God's people settle the matter? 2Don't you know that God's people will judge the world? Well, then, if you are to judge the world, aren't you capable of judging small matters? 3Do you not know that we shall judge the angels? How much more, then, the things of this life! 4If such matters come up, are you going to take them to be settled by people who have no standing in the church? 5Shame on you! Surely there is at least one wise person in your fellowship who can settle a dispute between fellow-Christians. 6Instead, one Christian goes to court against another and lets unbelievers judge the case!
7The very fact that you have legal disputes among yourselves shows that you have failed completely. Would it not be better for you to be wronged? Would it not be better for you to be robbed? 8Instead, you yourselves wrong one another and rob one another, even your own brothers and sisters! 9Surely you know that the wicked will not possess God's Kingdom. Do not fool yourselves; people who are immoral or who worship idols or are adulterers or homosexual perverts 10or who steal or are greedy or are drunkards or who slander others or are thieves — none of these will possess God's Kingdom. 11Some of you were like that. But you have been purified from sin; you have been dedicated to God; you have been put right with God by the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
Use your Bodies for God's Glory
12 #
1 Cor 10.23
Someone will say, “I am allowed to do anything.” Yes; but not everything is good for you. I could say that I am allowed to do anything, but I am not going to let anything make me its slave. 13Someone else will say, “Food is for the stomach, and the stomach is for food.” Yes; but God will put an end to both. The body is not to be used for sexual immorality, but to serve the Lord; and the Lord provides for the body. 14God raised the Lord from death, and he will also raise us by his power.
15You know that your bodies are parts of the body of Christ. Shall I take a part of Christ's body and make it part of the body of a prostitute? Impossible! 16#Gen 2.24Or perhaps you don't know that the man who joins his body to a prostitute becomes physically one with her? The scripture says quite plainly, “The two will become one body.” 17But he who joins himself to the Lord becomes spiritually one with him.
18Avoid immorality. Any other sin a man commits does not affect his body; but the man who is guilty of sexual immorality sins against his own body. 19#1 Cor 3.16; 2 Cor 6.16Don't you know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and who was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourselves but to God; 20he bought you for a price. So use your bodies for God's glory.
Currently Selected:
1 Corinthians 6: GNBDK
Highlight
Share
Copy
Want to have your highlights saved across all your devices? Sign up or sign in
Good News Bible with Deuterocanonicals/Apocrypha. Scripture taken from the Good News Bible (r) (Today's English Version Second Edition, UK/British Edition). Copyright © 1992 British & Foreign Bible Society. Used by permission.
1 Corinthians 6
6
Lawsuits among Believers
1If any of you has a legal dispute against another, do you dare go to court # Mt 18:15-17 before the unrighteous, # Unbelievers; v. 6 and not before the saints? 2Or 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 cases? 3Don’t you know that we will judge angels — not to mention ordinary matters? 4So if you have cases pertaining to this life, do you select those # Or life, appoint those (as a command) who have no standing # Lk 18:9 in the church to judge? 5I say this to your shame! # 1Co 4:14 Can it be that there is not one wise person among you who is able to arbitrate between his brothers? # Ac 9:30 6Instead, believer # Lit brothers goes to court against believer, and that before unbelievers! # Lk 12:46
7Therefore, to have legal disputes against one another is already a moral failure for you. # Rm 11:12 Why not rather put up with injustice? # Rv 2:11 Why not rather be cheated? # Mk 10:19 8Instead, you act unjustly and cheat — and you do this to believers! 9Don’t you know that the unrighteous # Lk 16:10 will not inherit God’s kingdom? # Mk 1:15; Ac 20:25 Do not be deceived: No sexually immoral people, idolaters, # Eph 5:5 adulterers, # Lk 18:11 or anyone practicing homosexuality, # Lit adulterers, passive homosexual partners, active homosexual partners # Gn 19:5 10no thieves, # Jn 10:1 greedy # Eph 5:5 people, drunkards, verbally abusive people, # 1Co 5:11 or swindlers # Lk 18:11 will inherit God’s kingdom. 11And some of you used to be like this. # Eph 2:2-3; 4:22; 5:8; Ti 3:3 But you were washed, you were sanctified, # Lk 11:2 you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
Glorifying God in Body and Spirit
12“Everything is permissible # Jn 18:31 for me,” # The words in quotation marks are most likely slogans used by some Corinthian Christians and corrected by Paul. but not everything is helpful. “Everything is permissible for me,” but I will not be brought under the control of anything. 13“Food # 1Tm 6:8 for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will do away with both of them. # Lit both it and them The body is not for sexual immorality # 1Th 4:3 but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14God raised up the Lord and will also raise us up by His power. # Mk 5:30; Lk 1:35; 6:19; Ac 19:11; 2Co 13:4; Rv 11:17 15Don’t you know that your bodies are a part of Christ’s body? # Rm 12:5; 1Co 12:27; Eph 5:30 So should I take a part of Christ’s body and make it part of a prostitute? Absolutely not! 16Don’t you know that anyone joined to a prostitute is one body with her? For Scripture says, The two will become one flesh. # Gn 2:24 # Gn 2:24 17But anyone joined # Jn 11:52 to the Lord is one spirit # Ps 51:12 with Him.
18Run # Jms 4:7 from sexual immorality! “Every sin a person can commit is outside the body.” # See note at 1Co 6:12-13. On the contrary, the person who is sexually immoral # 1Co 10:8 sins against his own body. 19Don’t you know that your body is a sanctuary # Lk 1:21 of the Holy Spirit # Rm 8:9,23; 1Co 7:40; 2Co 4:13; Jd 19 who is in you, # Jms 4:5; 1Jn 4:4 whom you have from God? You are not your own, 20for you were bought # 2Pt 2:1 at a price. Therefore glorify God in your body. # Other mss add and in your spirit, which belong to God.
Currently Selected:
:
Highlight
Share
Copy
Want to have your highlights saved across all your devices? Sign up or sign in
© 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2009 by Holman Bible Publishers, Nashville, Tennessee. All rights reserved.