1 Corinthians 6
GOD’S WORD Translation
Settling Disagreements between Christians
6 When one of you has a complaint against another, how dare you go to court to settle the matter in front of wicked people. Why don’t you settle it in front of God’s holy people? 2 Don’t you know that God’s people will judge the world? So if you’re going to judge the world, aren’t you capable of judging insignificant cases? 3 Don’t you know that we will judge angels, not to mention things in this life? 4 When you have cases dealing with this life, why do you allow people whom the church has a low opinion of to be your judges? 5 You should be ashamed of yourselves! Don’t you have at least one wise person who is able to settle disagreements between believers? 6 Instead, one believer goes to court against another believer, and this happens in front of unbelievers.
7 You are already totally defeated because you have lawsuits against each other. Why don’t you accept the fact that you have been wronged? Why don’t you accept that you have been cheated? 8 Instead, you do wrong and cheat, and you do this to other believers.
9 Don’t you know that wicked people won’t inherit God’s kingdom? Stop deceiving yourselves! People who continue to commit sexual sins, who worship false gods, those who commit adultery, homosexuals, 10 or thieves, those who are greedy or drunk, who use abusive language, or who rob people will not inherit God’s kingdom. 11 That’s what some of you were! But you have been washed and made holy, and you have received God’s approval in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.
Stay Away from Sexual Sins
12 Someone may say, “I’m allowed to do anything,” but not everything is helpful. I’m allowed to do anything, but I won’t allow anything to gain control over my life. 13 Food is for the stomach, and the stomach is for food, but God will put an end to both of them. However, the body is not for sexual sin but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body. 14 God brought the Lord back to life, and by his power God will also bring us back to life.
15 Don’t you realize that your bodies are parts of Christ’s body? Should I take the parts of Christ’s body and make them parts of a prostitute’s body? That’s unthinkable! 16 Don’t you realize that the person who unites himself with a prostitute becomes one body with her? God says, “The two will be one.” 17 However, the person who unites himself with the Lord becomes one spirit with him.
18 Stay away from sexual sins. Other sins that people commit don’t affect their bodies the same way sexual sins do. People who sin sexually sin against their own bodies. 19 Don’t you know that your body is a temple that belongs to the Holy Spirit? The Holy Spirit, whom you received from God, lives in you. You don’t belong to yourselves. 20 You were bought for a price. So bring glory to God in the way you use your body.
1 Corinthians 6
The Voice
6 Here’s another troubling issue. If you have a grievance against another follower of Jesus, do you have the audacity to bring that brother or sister into the civil courts rather than submitting yourselves to the authority of God’s people? 2 Don’t you know that His people are destined to judge the world? If you have the authority to judge the world, can’t you handle these small matters and render a better judgment than the civil courts? 3 Further, don’t you know that we are destined to judge the heavenly messengers? So if we are to exercise authority in the heavenly realms, can’t we take care of the conflicts that arise in this life? 4 To put it another way, if you are asking the courts to adjudicate your mundane conflicts, aren’t you placing your problems under the authority of judges who have no standing within the church? 5 My words should embarrass you. Is it possible that you have no one among you with the wisdom to mediate between two siblings? 6 So one brother sues another brother in public and drags the dispute before outsiders who have no allegiance to Jesus?
7 The truth is that these public lawsuits cause all of you to lose and lose big. Wouldn’t it be better to be ripped off or defrauded? 8 In fact, you are guilty of ripping off and defrauding your own brothers and sisters, not the other way around.
9-10 Do you need reminding that the unjust have no share in the blessings of the kingdom of God? Do not be misled. A lot of people stand to inherit nothing of God’s coming kingdom, including those whose lives are defined by sexual immorality, idolatry, adultery, sexual deviancy, theft, greed, drunkenness, slander, and swindling. 11 Some of you used to live in these ways, but you are different now; you have been washed clean, set apart, restored, and set on the right path in the name of the Lord Jesus, the Anointed, by the Spirit of our living God.
In the same way that some seek to reduce Christianity to a philosophy or a set of ideas, others seek to reduce it to a set of rules for living. If true faith is only about eating certain foods, abstaining from others, and avoiding certain practices, then willpower must be more important than the Spirit of God. But following stringent rules is not that easy. Actually, living by willpower is hard—some might say impossible. Paul is preaching about an alternative to a life governed by rules and restrictions, and that’s a life of faith that embraces grace. What Paul is about to describe is a life of freedom that surpasses a life of rule keeping.
12 I can hear some of you saying, “For me, all things are permitted.” But face the facts: all things are not beneficial. So you say, “For me, all things are permitted.” Here’s my response: I will not allow anything to control me. 13 Another chimes in: “Food is for the stomach, and the stomach is for food.” I suppose so, but a day will come when God will dispense with both food and the stomach. The body is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord; the Lord is over all, and He cares about your body. 14 God has raised the Lord Jesus from death, but He won’t stop there. His dynamic power will raise us up from the grips of death as well. 15 Don’t you realize that your bodies are members of the Anointed One? So should I take the members of the Anointed One and unite them to a prostitute? This illicit union should never take place! 16 Don’t you understand that when your body is joined with a prostitute, the two of you have become one body? For as it says, “The two come together as one flesh.”[a] 17 But when you are joined with the Lord, you become one spirit with Him. 18 Run from immoral behavior. All other sins are disconnected from the body, but sexual immorality is a sin against your own body. 19 Don’t you know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who comes from God and dwells inside of you? You do not own yourself. 20 You have been purchased at a great price, so use your body to bring glory to God!
Footnotes
1 Corinthians 6
New American Standard Bible
Lawsuits Discouraged
6 Does any one of you, when he has a [a]case against [b]his neighbor, dare to go to law before the unrighteous and (A)not before the [c]saints? 2 Or (B)do you not know that (C)the [d]saints will judge (D)the world? If the world is judged by you, are you not competent to form the smallest [e]law courts? 3 (E)Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more matters of this life? 4 So if you have law courts dealing with matters of this life, [f]do you appoint them as judges who are of no account in the church? 5 (F)I say this to your shame. Is it so, that there is not among you anyone wise who will be able to decide between his (G)brothers and sisters, 6 but brother goes to law with brother, and that before (H)unbelievers?
7 Actually, then, it is already a defeat for you, that you have lawsuits with one another. (I)Why not rather suffer the wrong? Why not rather be defrauded? 8 On the contrary, you yourselves do wrong and defraud. And this to your (J)brothers and sisters!
9 Or (K)do you not know that the unrighteous will not (L)inherit the kingdom of God? (M)Do not be deceived; (N)neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor [g]homosexuals, 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor those habitually drunk, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will (O)inherit the kingdom of God. 11 (P)Such were some of you; but you were (Q)washed, but you were (R)sanctified, but you were (S)justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and [h]in the Spirit of our God.
The Body Is the Lord’s
12 (T)All things are permitted for me, but not all things are of benefit. All things are permitted for me, but I will not be mastered by anything. 13 (U)Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, however God will (V)do away with both [i]of them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but (W)for the Lord, and (X)the Lord is for the body. 14 Now God has not only (Y)raised the Lord, but (Z)will also raise us up through His power. 15 (AA)Do you not know that (AB)your bodies are parts of Christ? Shall I then take away the parts of Christ and make them parts of a prostitute? [j](AC)Far from it! 16 Or (AD)do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For He says, “(AE)The two shall become one flesh.” 17 But the one who joins himself to the Lord is (AF)one spirit with Him. 18 (AG)Flee sexual immorality. Every other sin that a person commits is outside the body, but the [k]sexually immoral person sins against his own body. 19 Or (AH)do you not know that (AI)your body is a [l]temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from [m]God, and that (AJ)you are not your own? 20 For (AK)you have been bought for a price: therefore glorify God in (AL)your body.
Footnotes
- 1 Corinthians 6:1 Lit matter
- 1 Corinthians 6:1 Lit the other
- 1 Corinthians 6:1 Lit holy ones; i.e., God’s people
- 1 Corinthians 6:2 See note 2 v 1
- 1 Corinthians 6:2 I.e., to try trivial cases
- 1 Corinthians 6:4 Or appoint them...church!
- 1 Corinthians 6:9 Two Gr words in the text, prob. submissive and dominant male homosexuals
- 1 Corinthians 6:11 Or by
- 1 Corinthians 6:13 Lit this and these
- 1 Corinthians 6:15 Lit May it never happen!
- 1 Corinthians 6:18 Or one who practices sexual immorality
- 1 Corinthians 6:19 Or sanctuary
- 1 Corinthians 6:19 Or God? And you...own
1 Corintios 6
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El cristiano y los tribunales civiles
6 ¿Se atreve alguno de ustedes, cuando tiene algo[a] contra su prójimo, a ir a juicio ante los incrédulos[b] y no ante los santos(A)? 2 ¿O no saben(B) que los santos han de juzgar(C) al mundo(D)? Y si el mundo es juzgado por ustedes, ¿no son competentes para juzgar los casos más sencillos[c]? 3 ¿No saben(E) que hemos de juzgar a los ángeles? ¡Cuánto más asuntos de esta vida! 4 Entonces, si tienen tribunales que juzgan los casos de esta vida, ¿por qué ponen por jueces a los que nada son en la iglesia? 5 Para vergüenza suya lo digo(F). ¿Acaso no hay entre ustedes algún hombre sabio que pueda juzgar entre sus hermanos(G), 6 sino que hermano contra hermano litiga, y esto ante incrédulos(H)?
7 Así que, en efecto, es ya un fallo entre ustedes el hecho de que tengan litigios entre sí. ¿Por qué no sufren mejor la injusticia? ¿Por qué no ser mejor defraudados(I)? 8 Por el contrario, ustedes mismos cometen injusticias y defraudan, y esto aun a sus propios hermanos(J).
9 ¿O no saben(K) que los injustos no heredarán el reino de Dios(L)? No se dejen engañar(M): ni los inmorales, ni los idólatras, ni los adúlteros, ni los afeminados, ni los homosexuales(N), 10 ni los ladrones, ni los avaros, ni los borrachos, ni los difamadores[d], ni los estafadores heredarán el reino de Dios(O). 11 Y esto eran algunos de ustedes(P); pero fueron lavados(Q), pero fueron santificados(R), pero fueron justificados(S) en el nombre del Señor Jesucristo y en el Espíritu de nuestro Dios.
El cuerpo es templo del Espíritu Santo
12 Todas las cosas me son lícitas, pero no todas son de provecho(T). Todas las cosas me son lícitas, pero yo no me dejaré dominar por ninguna. 13 Los alimentos son para el estómago[e](U) y el estómago[f] para los alimentos, pero Dios destruirá(V) a los dos[g]. Sin embargo, el cuerpo no es para la fornicación, sino para el Señor(W), y el Señor es para el cuerpo(X). 14 Y Dios, que resucitó al Señor(Y), también nos resucitará(Z) a nosotros mediante Su poder.
15 ¿No saben(AA) que sus cuerpos son miembros de Cristo[h](AB)? ¿Tomaré, acaso, los miembros de Cristo y los haré miembros de una ramera? ¡De ningún modo(AC)! 16 ¿O no saben(AD) que el que se une a una ramera es un cuerpo con ella? Porque Él dice: «Los dos vendrán a ser una sola carne(AE)». 17 Pero el que se une al Señor, es un espíritu con Él(AF).
18 Huyan de la fornicación(AG). Todos los demás pecados que un hombre comete están fuera del cuerpo, pero el fornicario peca contra su propio cuerpo. 19 ¿O no saben(AH) que su cuerpo es templo[i](AI) del Espíritu Santo que está en ustedes, el cual tienen de Dios, y que ustedes no se pertenecen a sí mismos[j](AJ)? 20 Porque han sido comprados por un precio(AK). Por tanto, glorifiquen a Dios en su cuerpo(AL) [k]y en su espíritu, los cuales son de Dios.
Footnotes
- 1 Corintios 6:1 Lit. un asunto.
- 1 Corintios 6:1 Lit. injustos.
- 1 Corintios 6:2 O constituir los tribunales de menor importancia.
- 1 Corintios 6:10 O maldicientes.
- 1 Corintios 6:13 Lit. vientre.
- 1 Corintios 6:13 Lit. vientre.
- 1 Corintios 6:13 Lit. a este y a estos.
- 1 Corintios 6:15 I.e. el Mesías.
- 1 Corintios 6:19 O santuario.
- 1 Corintios 6:19 O Dios? Y no son de ustedes.
- 1 Corintios 6:20 Los mss. más antiguos no incluyen el resto del vers.
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