1 Corinthians 6

1 Dare any of you, having a matter against another, try before the unjust, and not before the saints? 2 Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world be judged by you, are ye unworthy of the smallest controversies? 3 Know ye not that we shall judge angels? what! and not the affairs of life? 4 Therefore if ye have controversies about the things of life, do ye set them to judge, who are despised by the church? 5 I speak to your shame. What! is there not one wise among you, that is able to judge between his bretheren? 6 But brother goeth to law with , and this before infidels. 7 Now there is certainly a fault among you, that ye have law-suits with one another: why do ye not rather endure wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded? 8 But ye do wrong and defraud, and that brethren. 9 What! know ye not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites, nor thieves, 10 nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor rapacious shall inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the spirit of our God. 12 All are lawful for me, but all are not expedient: all are lawful for me, but I will not be under the power of any: 13 meats for the belly, and the belly for meats, but God will destroy both it and them. But the body not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14 And as God hath raised up the Lord, so will He raise up us by his power. 15 Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make members of an harlot? 16 God forbid! What! know ye not that he who is joined to an harlot is one body for the two, saith he, shall be one flesh. 17 And he that is joined to the Lord is one spirit. 18 Flee from whoredom. Every sin, that a man committeth, is without the body; but he, that committeth whoredom, sinneth against his own body. 19 What! know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, in you, which ye have from God? 20 and ye are not your own, for ye are bought with a price. Glorify God therefore in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.