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1 Corinthians 6

Holman Christian Standard Bible, 2009 (HCSB)

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¹ If any of you has a legal dispute against another, do you dare go to court ⓐ before the unrighteous, [1] and not before the saints?

² Or don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest cases?

³ Don’t you know that we will judge angels — not to mention ordinary matters?

⁴ So if you have cases pertaining to this life, do you select those [2] who have no standing ⓑ in the church to judge?

⁵ I say this to your shame! ⓒ Can it be that there is not one wise person among you who is able to arbitrate between his brothers? ⓓ

⁶ Instead, believer [3] goes to court against believer, and that before unbelievers! ⓔ

⁷ Therefore, to have legal disputes against one another is already a moral failure for you. ⓕ Why not rather put up with injustice? ⓖ Why not rather be cheated? ⓗ

⁸ Instead, you act unjustly and cheat — and you do this to believers!

⁹ Don’t you know that the unrighteous ⓘ will not inherit God’s kingdom? ⓙ Do not be deceived: No sexually immoral people, idolaters, ⓚ adulterers, ⓛ or anyone practicing homosexuality, [4] ⓜ

¹⁰ no thieves, ⓝ greedy ⓞ people, drunkards, verbally abusive people, ⓟ or swindlers ⓠ will inherit God’s kingdom.

¹¹ And some of you used to be like this. ⓡ 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,” [5] but not everything is helpful. “Everything is permissible for me,” but I will not be brought under the control of anything.

¹³ “Food ⓤ for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will do away with both of them. [6] The body is not for sexual immorality ⓥ but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

¹⁴ God raised up the Lord and will also raise us up by His power. ⓦ

¹⁵ Don’t you know that your bodies are a part of Christ’s body? ⓧ So should I take a part of Christ’s body and make it part of a prostitute? Absolutely not!

¹⁶ Don’t you know that anyone joined to a prostitute is one body with her? For Scripture says, The two will become one flesh. ⓨ [7]

¹⁷ But anyone joined ⓩ to the Lord is one spirit ⓐ with Him.

¹⁸ Run ⓑ from sexual immorality! “Every sin a person can commit is outside the body.” [8] On the contrary, the person who is sexually immoral ⓒ sins against his own body.

¹⁹ Don’t you know that your body is a sanctuary ⓓ of the Holy Spirit ⓔ who is in you, ⓕ whom you have from God? You are not your own,

²⁰ for you were bought ⓖ at a price. Therefore glorify God in your body. [9]

#	HCSB
1	If any of you has a legal dispute against another, do you dare go to court ⓐ before the unrighteous, [1] and not before the saints?
2	Or don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest cases?
3	Don’t you know that we will judge angels — not to mention ordinary matters?
4	So if you have cases pertaining to this life, do you select those [2] who have no standing ⓑ in the church to judge?
5	I say this to your shame! ⓒ Can it be that there is not one wise person among you who is able to arbitrate between his brothers? ⓓ
6	Instead, believer [3] goes to court against believer, and that before unbelievers! ⓔ
7	Therefore, to have legal disputes against one another is already a moral failure for you. ⓕ Why not rather put up with injustice? ⓖ Why not rather be cheated? ⓗ
8	Instead, you act unjustly and cheat — and you do this to believers!
9	Don’t you know that the unrighteous ⓘ will not inherit God’s kingdom? ⓙ Do not be deceived: No sexually immoral people, idolaters, ⓚ adulterers, ⓛ or anyone practicing homosexuality, [4] ⓜ
10	no thieves, ⓝ greedy ⓞ people, drunkards, verbally abusive people, ⓟ or swindlers ⓠ will inherit God’s kingdom.
11	And some of you used to be like this. ⓡ 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,” [5] but not everything is helpful. “Everything is permissible for me,” but I will not be brought under the control of anything.
13	“Food ⓤ for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will do away with both of them. [6] The body is not for sexual immorality ⓥ but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
14	God raised up the Lord and will also raise us up by His power. ⓦ
15	Don’t you know that your bodies are a part of Christ’s body? ⓧ So should I take a part of Christ’s body and make it part of a prostitute? Absolutely not!
16	Don’t you know that anyone joined to a prostitute is one body with her? For Scripture says, The two will become one flesh. ⓨ [7]
17	But anyone joined ⓩ to the Lord is one spirit ⓐ with Him.
18	Run ⓑ from sexual immorality! “Every sin a person can commit is outside the body.” [8] On the contrary, the person who is sexually immoral ⓒ sins against his own body.
19	Don’t you know that your body is a sanctuary ⓓ of the Holy Spirit ⓔ who is in you, ⓕ whom you have from God? You are not your own,
20	for you were bought ⓖ at a price. Therefore glorify God in your body. [9]

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