1 Corinthians Chapter 6

Christians and Lawsuits

            ¹ If you have something against a fellow Christian, do any of you dare go to court in front of sinners rather than saints? ² You know, don’t you, that the saints will judge the world? If you’re going to judge the world, can’t you judge small matters? ³ You know, don’t you, that you’ll judge angels, much less matters of everyday life? ⁴ If you have courts that deal with everyday matters, appoint as judges the ones looked down on in the church. ⁵ I’m saying this so you’ll be ashamed: don’t you have anybody among you smart enough to decide between his fellow believers? ⁶ Christians take Christians to court and do it in front of unbelievers? ⁷ It’s a real defect in you that you bring lawsuits against each other. Wouldn’t it be better to let yourselves be wronged or defrauded? ⁸ But you do the wronging and defrauding, and do it to fellow Christians, at that. ⁹ Don’t you know that bad people won’t inherit God’s kingdom? Don’t kid yourselves: sexually immoral people, idolaters, adulterers, effeminate men, homosexuals, ¹⁰ thieves, covetous people, drunkards, revilers, swindlers won’t inherit his kingdom. ¹¹ Some of you were like that, but you were washed, sanctified, made good in the Lord Jesus and in the Spirit of our God.    

1 Cor 6:1-11

¹² I can do all kinds of things, but they’re not all beneficial, and I won’t put myself under their control. ¹³ Food’s for the stomach, and the stomach’s for food, but God will destroy it and them. The body is not for immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord is for the body. ¹⁴ But God has resurrected the Lord, and he’ll resurrect us by his power. ¹⁵ Don’t you know your bodies are parts of Christ? So am I going to take parts of Christ and make them parts of a prostitute? Goodness, no! ¹⁶ Don’t you know that whoever joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her physically? God says, “The two will become one physical identity” [Gen 2:24]. ¹⁷ Whoever joins himself to the Lord is one spiritual identity with him. ¹⁸ Run from sexual immorality. Every sin a person commits is aside from the body, but sexual sin is a sin against a person’s own body. ¹⁹ Don’t you know your^pl body is a temple for God’s Holy Spirit that’s in you^pl? You^pl don’t own yourselves; ²⁰ you’ve been purchased. So praise God with your body.  

1 Cor 6:12-20