Does anyone among you, having a matter against another, dare to be judged before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?
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1 Corinthians 6
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ἢ οὐκ οἴδατε ὅτι οἱ ἅγιοι τὸν κόσμον κρινοῦσιν; καὶ εἰ ἐν ὑμῖν κρίνεται ὁ κόσμος, ἀνάξιοί ἐστε κριτηρίων ἐλαχίστων;
Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life?
If then you have lawsuits about everyday matters, do you appoint as judges those who are least esteemed in the church?
πρὸς ἐντροπὴν ὑμῖν λέγω. οὕτως οὐκ ἔνι ἐν ὑμῖν οὐδεὶς σοφὸς ὃς δυνήσεται διακρῖναι ἀνὰ μέσον τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ αὐτοῦ,
I say this to your shame. Is there no one among you wise enough to judge between his brothers?
But a brother judges with a brother, and this among unbelievers?
ἤδη μὲν οὖν ὅλως ἥττημα ὑμῖν ἐστιν ὅτι κρίματα ἔχετε μεθ' ἑαυτῶν· διὰ τί οὐχὶ μᾶλλον ἀδικεῖσθε; διὰ τί οὐχὶ μᾶλλον ἀποστερεῖσθε;
Now it is completely a defeat for you that you have lawsuits with one another. Why do you not rather endure wrong? Why do you not rather suffer loss?
But you wrong and deprive, and this even brothers.
Ἢ οὐκ οἴδατε ὅτι ἄδικοι θεοῦ βασιλείαν οὐ κληρονομήσουσιν; μὴ πλανᾶσθε· οὔτε πόρνοι οὔτε εἰδωλολάτραι οὔτε μοιχοὶ οὔτε μαλακοὶ οὔτε ἀρσενοκοῖται
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 effeminate, nor men who practice homosexuality
Neither thieves nor greedy people, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor robbers will inherit the kingdom of God.
καὶ ταῦτά τινες ἦτε· ἀλλὰ ἀπελούσασθε, ἀλλὰ ἡγιάσθητε, ἀλλὰ ἐδικαιώθητε ἐν τῷ ὀνόματι τοῦ κυρίου Ἰησοῦ καὶ ἐν τῷ πνεύματι τοῦ θεοῦ ἡμῶν.
And some of you were these things, but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and in the Spirit of our God.
Πάντα μοι ἔξεστιν· ἀλλ' οὐ πάντα συμφέρει. πάντα μοι ἔξεστιν· ἀλλ' οὐκ ἐγὼ ἐξουσιασθήσομαι ὑπό τινος.
All 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.
τὰ βρώματα τῇ κοιλίᾳ, καὶ ἡ κοιλία τοῖς βρώμασιν· ὁ δὲ θεὸς καὶ ταύτην καὶ ταῦτα καταργήσει. τὸ δὲ σῶμα οὐ τῇ πορνείᾳ ἀλλὰ τῷ κυρίῳ, καὶ ὁ κύριος τῷ σώματι·
Food is for the stomach, and the stomach is for food; but God will destroy both of them. The body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
But God raised the Lord and will also raise us by his power.
οὐκ οἴδατε ὅτι τὰ σώματα ὑμῶν μέλη Χριστοῦ ἐστιν; ἄρας οὖν τὰ μέλη τοῦ Χριστοῦ ποιήσω πόρνης μέλη; μὴ γένοιτο.
Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Absolutely not.
Do you not know that the one joined to a prostitute is one body? For the two will become one flesh.
But the one joined to the Lord is one spirit.
φεύγετε τὴν πορνείαν· πᾶν ἁμάρτημα ὃ ἐὰν ποιήσῃ ἄνθρωπος ἐκτὸς τοῦ σώματός ἐστιν, ὁ δὲ πορνεύων εἰς τὸ ἴδιον σῶμα ἁμαρτάνει.
Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a person commits is outside the body, but the one who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
ἢ οὐκ οἴδατε ὅτι τὸ σῶμα ὑμῶν ναὸς τοῦ ἐν ὑμῖν ἁγίου πνεύματός ἐστιν, οὗ ἔχετε ἀπὸ θεοῦ; καὶ οὐκ ἐστὲ ἑαυτῶν,
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,
For you were bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body.