New Testament · Easy read · 1 Corinthians
1 Corinthians 6
1Does any one of you, having a matter against another, dare to be judged before the unrighteous and not before the holy ones?
2Or do you not know that the holy ones will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you not worthy of the smallest law courts?
3Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more then things of this life?
4So if you have courts for matters of this life, do you seat those who are of no account in the ekklesia?
5I say this to move you to shame: is there not among you one wise man who will be able to discern between his brothers?
6But brother is judged against brother, and that before unbelievers?
7Already then it is altogether a defeat for you that you have verdicts with one another; why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?
8But you yourselves do wrong and defraud — even your brothers.
9Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the soft ones, nor males who lie with males,
10nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
11And some of you were these things; but you were washed, but you were made holy, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Yeshua and in the spirit of our God.
12All things are lawful for me, but not all things are beneficial; all things are lawful for me, but I will not be mastered by anything.
13Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food, but God will do away with both of them; yet the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.
14Now God has both raised the Lord and will raise us also through His power.
15Do you not know that your bodies are members of Messiah? Shall I then take away the members of Messiah and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!
16Or do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For it says, "The two shall become one flesh."
17But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him.
18Flee sexual immorality; every sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.
19Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the holy spirit within you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?
20For you were bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.