1CO 6
6
On Lawsuits Among Believers
1 When one of you has a grievance against a fellow believer, how dare you seek legal judgment before unrighteous magistrates instead of before the saints?
2 Are you unaware that the saints will participate in judging the world? If you are destined to judge the entire world, are you truly incompetent to adjudicate trivial disputes?
3 Are you unaware that we will evaluate angels? How much more should we be capable of resolving everyday matters?
4 So if you have disputes regarding everyday affairs, why do you place those whom the church considers least significant in positions of judgment?
5 I mention this to bring shame upon you. Can it really be that not even one wise man exists among you who could arbitrate between his brothers?
6 Instead, one brother initiates legal proceedings against another brother—and does so before those who reject the faith!
7 The mere existence of lawsuits among you already represents total failure. Why not instead accept being wronged? Why not instead accept being cheated?
8 Yet you yourselves commit wrongs and defraud—and you do these things to your brothers!
9 Are you unaware that those who practise unrighteousness will have no inheritance in God's kingdom? Do not deceive yourselves: neither those who engage in sexual immorality, nor idol worshipers, nor those who commit adultery, nor men who submit to homosexual acts, nor men who engage in homosexual acts, 10 nor those who steal, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor those who slander others, nor swindlers will inherit God's kingdom.
11 Some of you formerly lived in these ways. Yet you have been cleansed, you have been sanctified or set apart as holy, you have been justified or declared righteous through the authority of the Lord Jesus and through the Spirit of our God.
On Sexual Immorality
12 "Everything is permissible for me"—yet not everything proves beneficial. "Everything is permissible for me"—yet I refuse to be dominated by anything.
13 "Food exists for the stomach's benefit and the stomach for food's benefit"—yet God will abolish both. However, the body does not exist for sexual immorality's sake, but for the Lord's purposes, and the Lord exists for the body's sake.
14 God raised the Lord from death and will likewise raise us through His power.
15 Are you unaware that your physical bodies constitute parts of Christ? Should I then remove parts of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Absolutely not!
16 Or are you unaware that whoever unites himself with a prostitute forms one body with her? Scripture declares, "The two shall become one flesh."
17 However, whoever unites himself with the Lord forms one spirit with Him.
18 Run away from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man commits occurs outside his body, but whoever engages in sexual immorality sins directly against his own body.
19 Or are you unaware that your body functions as a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit dwelling within you, whom you received from God, and that you do not possess ownership of yourselves?
20 You were purchased at tremendous cost. Therefore, bring glory to God through your body.
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Copyright © 2026 Michael Adeyemi Adegbola. This Scripture text is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0).
