The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Corinthians 06
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 the saints will
judge the world? And ifthe world is judged
by you, are you unworthy to judge the
smallest matters?
3 Don’t you know that we will
judge angels? How much more,
things that pertain to this life?
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 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 But brother goes to law with brother,
and that before unbelievers!
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 No, but you yourselves do wrong and
defraud, and that against your brothers.
9 Or don’t you know thatthe 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 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards,
nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will
inherit God’s Kingdom.
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 “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 “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 Now God raised up the Lord, and will
also raise us up by his power.
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 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 he who is joined to the Lord is one
spirit.
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 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 for you were bought with a price.
Therefore glorify God in your body and in
your spirit, which are God’s.