[1 Corinthians 6]

 

             ^6:1 Does anyone of you^°, having a legal matter toward the other, dare to have a lawsuit in front of the unrighteous and not in front of the holy-ones? ^6:2 Do you^° not know that the holy-ones will be judging the world? And if the world is judged among you^°, are you^° unworthy of the least of courts? ^6:3 Do you^° not know that we will be judging the messengers? Yet, why not judge things of everyday life? ^6:4 Therefore, if you^° indeed have courts concerning things of everyday life, why are you^° seating these who have been scorned in the congregation^* as judges? ^6:5 I am saying this to shame you^°. So is there not one wise person among you^°? Not even one who will be able to judge between his brethren? ^6:6 But brother is in a lawsuit with brother, and this in front of unbelieving people! ^6:7 Therefore, it is indeed already a literal failure to you^°, that you^° have lawsuits with yourselves. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded? ^6:8 But instead you^° are wronging and are defrauding, and you° do these things to brethren.

             {Paul addresses a common practice among the Greek elites at that time, to keep a teenager lover in addition to your spouse.}

             ^6:9 Or do you^° not know that the unrighteous will not be inheriting the kingdom of God? Do^° not be misled. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor pedophiles, nor homosexuals, ^6:10 nor the greedy ones, nor thieves, nor drunkards, not revilers, not ravening ones, will be inheriting the kingdom of God. {Gal 5:19-21} ^6:11 And some of you^° were these, but you^° yourselves were fully-washed, but you^° were made holy, but you^° were made righteous in the name of the Lord Jesus and in the Spirit of our God.

 

             ^6:12 All things are legal for me, but not all things are advantageous. All things are legal for me, but I will not be brought-under the authority by anything. ^6:13 The foods are for the belly and the belly is for the foods, but God will be doing-away-with both this and these things. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

             ^6:14 Now God both raised up the Lord and will be raising us up through his power. ^6:15 Do you^° not know that your^° bodies are members of Christ? Therefore, after I took the members of the Christ, should I make^* them members of a prostitute? Let it not happen! ^6:16 Do you^° not know that he who is joined to the prostitute is one body? For^* he says, The two will be one flesh. {Gen 2:24} ^6:17 But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit. ^6:18 Flee^° fornication. Every sin, whatever a man may do^*, is outside the body, but the one fornicating, sins at his own body.

^6:19 Or do you^° not know that your^° body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you^°, whom you^° have from God? And you^° are not your^° own, ^6:20 for^* you^° were bought as one of value. Glorify^° God in your^° body and in your^° spirit which are God’s!