6 Dare
any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust,
and not before the saints? 2 Do
ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall
be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? 3 Know
ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to
this life? 4 If
then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to
judge who are least esteemed in the church. 5 I
speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you?
no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren? 6 But
brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers. 7 Now
therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one
with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer
yourselves to be defrauded? 8 Nay,
ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren. 9 Know
ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not
deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate,
nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 10 Nor
thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners,
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
things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things
are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. 13 Meats
for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and
them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord
for the body. 14 And
God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power. 15 Know
ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the
members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid. 16 What?
know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith
he, shall be one flesh. 17 But
he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. 18 Flee
fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that
committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. 19 What?
know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you,
which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 20 For
ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your
spirit, which are God's.