1 Corinthians 6
6
Suing Fellow Believers
1Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to the law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? 2Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? # Da 7:22; Mt 19:28 If the world will be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters? 3Do you not know that we shall judge angels? How much more the things that pertain to this life? 4If then you have judgments dealing with matters of this life, do you appoint as judges those who are least esteemed in the church? # 1Co 5:12 5I speak to your shame. # 1Co 4:14; 15:34 Is it true that there is not even one wise man among you who shall be able to judge between his brothers? 6But brother goes to the law against brother, and before unbelievers, at that.
7Now therefore it is already an utter failure for you that you go to law against one another. # Pr 20:22; 1Pe 3:9 Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded? 8But you yourselves do wrong and defraud, and do this to your brothers. # 1Th 4:6 9Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? # 1Co 15:50 Do not be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, # 1Ti 1:9–10 # 6:9 The first term is for a catamite or submissive homosexual and the second for a pederast or dominant homosexual. 10nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners # 1Co 5:11 will inherit the kingdom of God. 11Such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, and you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus by the Spirit of our God. # Ac 22:16; Ro 8:30; 1Co 1:2
Glorifying God in Your Body
12“All things are lawful to me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be brought under the power of anything. 13“Food is for the belly, and the belly is for food,” # Mt 15:17 but God will destroy both of them. Now the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body. # 1Co 6:15 14God has raised up the Lord and will also raise us up by His own power. # Ac 2:24; Eph 1:19–20 15Do you not know that your bodies are the parts of Christ? # Ro 12:5; 1Co 12:27 Shall I then take the parts of Christ and make them the parts of a harlot? God forbid! 16What? Do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For “the two,” He says, “shall become one flesh.” # Ge 2:24; Eph 5:31 # 6:16 Ge 2:24. 17But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with Him. # Jn 17:21–23
18Escape from sexual immorality. # 2Co 12:21; 1Th 4:3; Heb 13:4 Every sin that a man commits is outside the body. But he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. 19What? Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, # Jn 2:21; 1Co 3:16 who is in you, whom you have received from God, and that you are not your own? 20You were bought with a price. # Ac 20:28; 1Co 7:23 Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s. # Ro 12:1
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1 Corinthians 6
6
Lawsuits between Believers
1 Does anyone among you, if he#*Here “if” is supplied as a component of the participle (“has”) which is understood as conditional has a matter against someone else, dare to go to court before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? 2Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if by you the world is judged, are you unworthy of the most insignificant courts? 3Do you not know that we will judge angels, not to mention ordinary matters? 4Therefore, if you have courts with regard to ordinary matters, do you seat#Or “seat” (imperative); the Greek verb can be either indicative mood or imperative mood by its form these despised people in the church? 5I say this to your shame. So is there not anyone wise among you who will be able to render a decision between his brothers? 6But brother goes to court with brother, and this before unbelievers! 7Therefore it is already completely a loss for you that you have lawsuits with one another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded? 8But you wrong and defraud, and do this to brothers!
9Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! Neither sexually immoral people, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor passive homosexual partners, nor dominant homosexual partners, 10nor thieves, nor greedy persons, not drunkards, not abusive persons, not swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11And some of you were these things, but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus#Some manuscripts have “of the Lord Jesus Christ” and by the Spirit of our God.
Avoid Sexual Immorality
12All things are permitted for me, but not all things are profitable. All things are permitted for me, but I will not be controlled by anything. 13Food is for the stomach, and the stomach for food, but God will abolish both of them#Literally “both this and these”. Now the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14And God both raised up the Lord and will raise us up by his power. 15Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Therefore, shall I take away the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be! 16Or do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For it says, “The two will become one flesh.”#A quotation from Gen 2:24 17But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with him. 18Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a person commits is outside his body, but the one who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. 19Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? 20For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God with your body.
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