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.
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1 Corinthians 6
6
The Report About Lawsuits
1When one of you is in a dispute with another believer, how dare you take them to court to be judged by ungodly people! Why don’t you ask the Lord’s people to help you settle it? 2Don’t you know that the Lord’s people will judge the world? Since you’re going to do that, don’t you think you can judge small cases? 3Don’t you know that we’re even going to judge angels? We should certainly be able to judge the things of this life! 4So if you’re in a dispute with someone, should you ask people that the church doesn’t even respect to settle it? Of course not! 5You should be ashamed. Is it possible that none of you are wise enough to settle disputes between believers, 6so that they’re taking each other to court instead, in front of unbelievers?
7Just by getting into a lawsuit with another believer, you’ve already lost. Wouldn’t it be better to be treated wrongly instead? Wouldn’t it be better just to be cheated? 8Instead, you’re cheating and doing wrong yourselves, and you’re doing it to your own brothers and sisters. 9Don’t you know that people who do wrong won’t inherit God’s kingdom? Don’t be deceived. People who commit sexual sins, or who worship idols or commit adultery, or men who sleep with other men, 10or thieves or greedy people, or those who are often drunk or tell lies or cheat, will not inherit God’s kingdom. 11Some of you used to do things like that. But you were washed and made holy and right with God in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
The Report About Sexual Sins
12Some of you are saying, “I have the right to do anything.” That may be true, but not everything is helpful. If you say, “I have the right to do anything,” you should also say, “But I won’t be controlled by anything.” 13Some of you are saying, “Food is meant for the stomach, and the stomach is meant for food, and God will destroy both of them.” But you can’t say the same thing about the body and sexual sins. The body is meant for the Lord, and the Lord is meant for the body. 14By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us up too. 15Don’t you know that your bodies are part of Christ himself? Should I take a part of Christ and join it to a prostitute? Never! 16Don’t you know that when you have sex with a prostitute, you become one with her in body? Scripture says, “The two will become one.” 17But whoever is joined to the Lord becomes one with him in spirit.
18So keep far away from sexual sins. All the other sins a person commits are outside the body. But if a person commits sexual sins, those are sins against their own body. 19Don’t you know that together you are a body, which is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you? You have received the Spirit from God. You don’t belong to yourselves; 20you were bought with a price. So honor God together as one body.
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