6 When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous r instead of the saints? 2 Or do you not know that s the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases? 3 Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life! 4 So if you have such cases, t why do you lay them before those who have no standing in the church? 5 u I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between the brothers, 6 but brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers? 7 To have lawsuits at all with one another is already a defeat for you. v Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded? 8 But you yourselves wrong and defraud—even w your own brothers! [1]
9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous [2] will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: x neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, [3] 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And y such were some of you. But z you were washed, a you were sanctified, b you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
12 c “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be enslaved by anything. 13 d “Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one e and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but f for the Lord, and g the Lord for the body. 14 And h God raised the Lord and i will also raise us up j by his power. 15 Do you not know that k your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! 16 Or do you not know that he who is joined [4] to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, l “The two will become one flesh.” 17 But he who is joined to the Lord m becomes one spirit with him. 18 n Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin [5] a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person o sins against his own body. 19 Or p do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? q You are not your own, 20 r for you were bought with a price. s So glorify God in your body.
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