The Epistle of Paul to the First Corinthians
6:1 Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the
unrighteous, and not before the saints? 6:2Or know ye not that the saints shall judge
the world? and if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the
smallest matters? 6:3Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more,
things that pertain to this life? 6:4If then ye have to judge things pertaining to this
life, do ye set them to judge who are of no account in the church? 6:5I say this to
move you to shame. What, cannot there be found among you one wise man who
shall be able to decide between his brethren, 6:6but brother goeth to law with
brother, and that before unbelievers? 6:7Nay, already it is altogether a defect in you,
that ye have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather take wrong? why not
rather be defrauded? 6:8Nay, but ye yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that
your brethren. 6:9Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom
of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor
effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men, 6:10nor thieves, nor covetous, nor
drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. 6:11And
such were some of you: but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were
justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God. 6:12All
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 any. 6:13Meats for the belly, and
the belly for meats: but God shall bring to nought both it and them. But the body
is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body: 6:14and God both
raised the Lord, and will raise up as through his power. 6:15Know ye not that your
bodies are members of Christ? shall I then take away the members of Christ, and
make them members of a harlot? God forbid. 6:16Or know ye not that he that is
joined to a harlot is one body? for, The twain, saith he, shall become one flesh.
6:17But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. 6:18Flee fornication. Every sin
that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth
against his own body. 6:19Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy
Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own; 6:20for
ye were bought with a price: glorify God therefore in your body.