Lawsuits among Believers 1 AKJV Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints? BSB BSB: If any of you has a grievance against another, how dare he go to law before the unrighteous instead of before the saints!
2 AKJV Do you not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters? BSB BSB: Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases?
3 AKJV Know you not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life? BSB BSB: Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life!
4 AKJV If then you have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church. BSB BSB: So if you need to settle everyday matters, do you appoint as judges those of no standing in the church?
5 AKJV I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brothers? BSB BSB: I say this to your shame. Is there really no one among you wise enough to arbitrate between his brothers?
6 AKJV But brother goes to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers. BSB BSB: Instead, one brother goes to law against another, and this in front of unbelievers!
7 AKJV Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because you go to law one with another. Why do you not rather take wrong? why do you not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded? BSB BSB: The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means that you are thoroughly defeated already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?
8 AKJV No, you do wrong, and defraud, and that your brothers. BSB BSB: Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, even against your own brothers!
Members of Christ 9 AKJV Know you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, BSB BSB: Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,
10 AKJV Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortionists, shall inherit the kingdom of God. BSB BSB: nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.
11 AKJV And such were some of you: but you are washed, but you are sanctified, but you are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. BSB BSB: 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.
12 AKJV All things are lawful to me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. BSB BSB: “Everything is permissible for me,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible for me,” but I will not be mastered by anything.
13 AKJV Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. BSB BSB: “Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will destroy them both. The body is not intended for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
14 AKJV And God has both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power. BSB BSB: By His power God raised the Lord from the dead, and He will raise us also.
15 AKJV Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid. BSB BSB: Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!
16 AKJV What? know you not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, says he, shall be one flesh. BSB BSB: Or don’t you 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.”
17 AKJV But he that is joined to the Lord is one spirit. BSB BSB: But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with Him in spirit.
The Temple of the Holy Spirit (Romans 12:1–8; 1 Corinthians 3:16–23)
18 AKJV Flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is without the body; but he that commits fornication sins against his own body. BSB BSB: Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.
20 AKJV For you are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s. BSB BSB: you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.
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