1 Does any one of you, when he has a 1Lit mattercase against his neighbor, dare to go to law before the unrighteous and AMatt 18:17not before the 2Or holy onessaints? 2 Or ARom 6:16do you not know that BDan 7:18, 22, 27; Matt 19:28the 1V 1, note 2saints will judge C1 Cor 1:20the world? If the world is judged by you, are you not competent to 2Or try the trivial cases?constitute the smallest law courts? 3 ARom 6:16Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more matters of this life? 4 So if you have law courts dealing with matters of this life, 1Or appoint them...churchdo you appoint them as judges who are of no account in the church? 5 A1 Cor 4:14; 15:34I say this to your shame. Is it so, that there is not among you one wise man who will be able to decide between his BActs 1:15; 9:13; 1 Cor 6:1brethren, 6 but brother goes to law with brother, and that before A2 Cor 6:14f; 1 Tim 5:8unbelievers?

7 Actually, then, it is already a defeat for you, that you have lawsuits with one another. AMatt 5:39fWhy not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded? 8 On the contrary, you yourselves wrong and defraud. You do this even to your A1 Thess 4:6brethren.

9 Or ARom 6:16do you not know that the unrighteous will not BActs 20:32; 1 Cor 15:50; Gal 5:21; Eph 5:5inherit the kingdom of God? CLuke 21:8; 1 Cor 15:33; Gal 6:7; James 1:16; 1 John 3:7Do not be deceived; DRom 13:13; 1 Cor 5:11; Gal 5:19-21; Eph 5:5; 1 Tim 1:10; Rev 21:8; 22:15neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor 1I.e. effeminate by perversioneffeminate, nor homosexuals, 10 nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will AActs 20:32; 1 Cor 15:50; Gal 5:21; Eph 5:5inherit the kingdom of God. 11 A1 Cor 12:2; Eph 2:2f; Col 3:5-7; Titus 3:3-7Such were some of you; but you were BActs 22:16; Eph 5:26washed, but you were C1 Cor 1:2, 30sanctified, but you were DRom 8:30justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

12 A1 Cor 10:23All things are lawful for me, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be mastered by anything. 13 AMatt 15:17Food is for the 1Lit bellystomach and the 1Lit bellystomach is for food, but God will BCol 2:22do away with both 2Lit it and themof them. Yet the body is not for immorality, but C1 Cor 6:15, 19for the Lord, and DGal 5:24; Eph 5:23the Lord is for the body. 14 Now God has not only AActs 2:24raised the Lord, but BJohn 6:39f; 1 Cor 15:23will also raise us up through His power. 15 A1 Cor 6:3Do you not know that BRom 12:5; 1 Cor 6:13; 12:27; Eph 5:30your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take away the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? CLuke 20:16May it never be! 16 Or A1 Cor 6:3do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For He says, “BGen 2:24; Matt 19:5; Mark 10:8; Eph 5:31Tʜᴇ ᴛwo sʜᴀʟʟ ʙᴇcoᴍᴇ oɴᴇ ꜰʟᴇsʜ.” 17 But the one who joins himself to the Lord is AJohn 17:21-23; Rom 8:9-11; 1 Cor 6:15; Gal 2:20one spirit with Him. 18 A1 Cor 6:9; 2 Cor 12:21; Eph 5:3; Col 3:5; Heb 13:4Flee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the 1Or one who practices immoralityimmoral man sins against his own body. 19 Or A1 Cor 6:3do you not know that BJohn 2:21; 1 Cor 3:16; 2 Cor 6:16your body is a 1Or sanctuarytemple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from 2Or God? And you...ownGod, and that CRom 14:7fyou are not your own? 20 For AActs 20:28; 1 Cor 7:23; 1 Pet 1:18f; 2 Pet 2:1; Rev 5:9you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in BRom 12:1; Phil 1:20your body.