1 Corinthians 6

1Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?Cross-references: Matt 18:15 · Acts 18:14 · Acts 19:38 · 1Cor 1:2 · 1Cor 6:6 · 1Cor 14:33 · +2 more

2Don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?Cross-references: Ps 49:14 · Ps 149:5 · Dan 7:18 · Dan 7:22 · Zech 14:5 · Matt 19:28 · +9 more

3Don’t you know that we will judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life?Cross-references: Ps 17:14 · Matt 25:41 · Luke 8:14 · Luke 21:34 · 1Cor 6:4 · 2Tim 2:4 · +3 more

4If then you have to judge things pertaining to this life, do you set them to judge who are of no account in the assembly?Cross-references: Acts 6:2 · 1Cor 5:12

5I say this to move you to shame. Isn’t there even one wise man among you who would be able to decide between his brothers?Cross-references: Prov 14:8 · Acts 1:15 · 1Cor 3:18 · 1Cor 4:10 · 1Cor 4:14 · 1Cor 11:14 · +3 more

6But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers!Cross-references: Gen 13:7 · Gen 45:24 · Neh 5:8 · Ps 133:1 · Acts 7:26 · 1Cor 6:1 · +5 more

7Therefore it is already altogether a defect in you that you have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?Cross-references: Prov 2:5 · Prov 2:8 · Prov 20:22 · Hos 10:2 · Matt 5:39 · Luke 6:29 · +5 more

8No, but you yourselves do wrong and defraud, and that against your brothers.Cross-references: Lev 19:13 · Mic 2:2 · Mal 3:5 · Mark 10:19 · Col 3:25 · 1Thess 4:6 · +1 more

9Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,Cross-references: Gen 19:5 · Ex 23:1 · Lev 18:22 · Lev 19:15 · Lev 19:35 · Lev 20:13 · +33 more

10nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom.Cross-references: Ps 50:17 · Isa 1:23 · Jer 7:11 · Ezek 22:13 · Ezek 22:27 · Ezek 22:29 · +9 more

11Some of you were such, but you were washed. You were sanctified. You were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.Cross-references: Ps 51:2 · Ps 51:7 · Prov 30:12 · Isa 1:16 · Isa 45:25 · Isa 53:11 · +39 more

12“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are expedient. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be brought under the power of anything.Cross-references: Rom 7:14 · Rom 14:14 · 1Cor 8:4 · 1Cor 8:7 · 1Cor 9:12 · 1Cor 9:27 · +4 more

13“Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.Cross-references: Matt 15:17 · Matt 15:20 · Mark 7:19 · John 6:27 · John 6:49 · Rom 6:12 · +13 more

14Now God raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his power.Cross-references: John 5:28 · John 6:39 · John 11:25 · Acts 2:24 · Acts 17:31 · Rom 6:4 · +8 more

15Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!Cross-references: Gen 44:17 · Luke 20:16 · Rom 3:3 · Rom 3:6 · Rom 3:31 · Rom 6:2 · +17 more

16Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two”, he says, “will become one flesh.”Cross-references: Gen 2:24 · Gen 34:31 · Gen 38:15 · Gen 38:24 · Judg 16:1 · Matt 19:5 · +4 more

17But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.Cross-references: John 3:6 · John 17:21 · 1Cor 12:13 · Gal 2:20 · Eph 4:3 · Eph 5:30 · +1 more

18Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.Cross-references: Gen 39:12 · Prov 2:16 · Prov 5:3 · Prov 6:24 · Prov 7:5 · Prov 9:16 · +11 more

19Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,Cross-references: 1Ki 20:4 · 1Chr 29:14 · Ps 12:4 · Ps 100:3 · John 2:21 · Rom 14:7 · +7 more

20for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.Cross-references: Matt 5:16 · Acts 20:28 · Rom 6:19 · Rom 12:1 · 1Cor 7:23 · 1Cor 10:31 · +7 more