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1 Corinthians · Chapter 6

1 Corinthians 6

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Lawsuits among Believers

1If any of you has a grievance against another, how dare he go to law before the unrighteous instead of before the saints!

2Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases?

3Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life!

4So if you need to settle everyday matters, do you appoint as judges those of no standing in the church?

5I say this to your shame. Is there really no one among you wise enough to arbitrate between his brothers?

6Instead, one brother goes to law against another, and this in front of unbelievers!

7The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means that you are thoroughly defeated already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?

8Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, even against your own brothers!*

Members of Christ

9Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,

10nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.

11And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

12“Everything is permissible for me,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible for me,” but I will not be mastered by anything.

13“Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will destroy them both. The body is not intended for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

14By His power God raised the Lord from the dead, and He will raise us also.

15Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!

16Or don’t you know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.”*

17But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with Him in spirit.

The Temple of the Holy Spirit

(Romans 12:1–8; 1 Corinthians 3:16–23)

18Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.

19Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;

20you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.*

Source notes

  1. 6:8 Literally do wrong, and this to brothers!
  2. 6:16 Genesis 2:24 (see also LXX) Read Genesis 2:24
  3. 6:20 BYZ and TR include and with your spirit, which belong to God.

Old Testament references

References from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Text from the Berean Standard Bible.

Genesis 2:24

For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

Psalms 49:14

Like sheep they are destined for Sheol. Death will be their shepherd. The upright will rule them in the morning, and their form will decay in Sheol, far from their lofty abode.

Psalms 149:5

Let the saints exult in glory; let them shout for joy upon their beds.

Psalms 149:6

May the high praises of God be in their mouths, and a double-edged sword in their hands,

Psalms 149:7

to inflict vengeance on the nations and punishment on the peoples,

Psalms 149:8

to bind their kings with chains and their nobles with shackles of iron,

Psalms 149:9

to execute the judgment written against them. This honor is for all His saints. Hallelujah!

Daniel 7:18

But the saints of the Most High will receive the kingdom and possess it forever—yes, forever and ever.’

Daniel 7:22

until the Ancient of Days arrived and pronounced judgment in favor of the saints of the Most High, and the time came for them to possess the kingdom.

Zechariah 14:5

You will flee by My mountain valley, for it will extend to Azal. You will flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the LORD my God will come, and all the holy ones with Him.

Psalms 17:14

from such men, O LORD, by Your hand— from men of the world whose portion is in this life. May You fill the bellies of Your treasured ones and satisfy their sons, so they leave their abundance to their children.

Proverbs 14:8

The wisdom of the prudent is to discern his way, but the folly of fools deceives them.

Genesis 13:7

And there was discord between the herdsmen of Abram and the herdsmen of Lot. At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were also living in the land.

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