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1 Corinthians 6 :: New International Version (NIV)

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Lawsuits Among Believers

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 6:1 - If any of you has a dispute with another, do you dare to take it before the ungodly for judgment instead of before the Lord’s people?
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 6:2 - Or do you not know that the Lord’s people will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases?
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 6:3 - Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life!
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 6:4 - Therefore, if you have disputes about such matters, do you ask for a ruling from those whose way of life is scorned in the church?
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 6:5 - I say this to shame you. Is it possible that there is nobody among you wise enough to judge a dispute between believers?
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 6:6 - But instead, one brother takes another to court—and this in front of unbelievers!
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 6:7 - The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means you have been completely defeated already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 6:8 - Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, and you do this to your brothers and sisters.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 6:9 - Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 6:10 - nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 6:11 - And that is what some of you were. 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.

Sexual Immorality

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 6:12 - “I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but I will not be mastered by anything.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 6:13 - You say, “Food for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will destroy them both.” The body, however, is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 6:14 - By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 6:15 - Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 6:16 - Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.”[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 6:17 - But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 6:18 - Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 6:19 - Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 6:20 - you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.
NIV Footnotes
The words men who have sex with men translate two Greek words that refer to the passive and active participants in homosexual acts.
Gen. 2:24
Or in the Spirit
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