1 Corinthians 6

1Suppose you have an argument with another believer. Why do you dare take it to a worldly court? Why ask ungodly judges to decide your argument? You should let God's holy people settle the matter!

2Do you not know that God's people will one day judge the world? And if you are going to judge the world, are you not able to decide small things?

3Do you not know that we will judge angels? So of course we can decide about the things of this life.

4So when you have these everyday problems, why do you take them to judges who mean nothing to the church?

5I say this to make you ashamed. Is there really no one among you wise enough to settle a problem between two believers?

6Instead, one believer takes another to court, and does it in front of people who do not believe!

7The truth is, going to law against each other means you have already lost. Why not just accept the wrong? Why not let yourself be cheated?

8But instead you do wrong and cheat others, and you do this to your own brothers and sisters.

9Do you not know this truth? Wicked people will have no share in God's Kingdom! Do not let anyone fool you. Sexually immoral people will not share in it. People who worship idols will not share in it. People who commit adultery will not share in it. Men who have sexual relations with other men will not share in it.

10Thieves will not share in it. Greedy people will not share in it. Drunkards will not share in it. Those who insult others will not share in it. Cheaters will not share in it. None of these will have a share in God's Kingdom.

11Some of you were like that. But God washed away your filthy sins! He set you apart to be holy. God made you right with Himself. He did this through the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and through the Spirit of our God.

12Someone may say: I am allowed to do anything. But not everything is good for you. I am allowed to do anything, but I will not let anything control me.

13Food is for the stomach, and the stomach is for food. But God will put an end to both. The body was not made for sexual sin. The body is for the Lord, and the Lord cares for the body.

14By His great power, God raised the Lord Jesus from death. And He will raise our bodies from death, too!

15Do you not know that your bodies are parts of Christ Himself? So should I take a part of Christ and join it to a prostitute? Never!

16Do you not know that a man who joins himself to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For God says: The two will become one flesh.

17But the one who joins themselves to the Lord becomes one with Him in spirit.

18Run away from sexual sin. Every other sin a person does is outside the body, but the one who sins sexually sins against their own body.

19Do you not know your physical body is a holy temple? The Holy Spirit lives inside you! God gave you the Spirit, and you do not belong to yourself.

20God paid a price to make you His own. So use your body to bring glory to God!