Lawsuits among Believers 1 CPDV How is it that anyone of you, having a dispute against another, would dare to be judged before the iniquitous, 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 CPDV Or do you not know that the saints from this age shall judge it? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you unworthy, then, to judge even 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 CPDV Do you not know that we shall judge angels? How much more the things of this age? BSB BSB: Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life!
4 CPDV Therefore, if you have matters to judge concerning this age, why not appoint those who are most contemptible in the Church to judge these things! BSB BSB: So if you need to settle everyday matters, do you appoint as judges those of no standing in the church?
5 CPDV But I am speaking so as to shame you. Is there no one among you wise enough, so that he might 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 CPDV Instead, brother contends against brother in court, and this before the unfaithful! BSB BSB: Instead, one brother goes to law against another, and this in front of unbelievers!
7 CPDV Now there is certainly an offense among you, beyond everything else, when you have court cases against one another. Should you not accept injury instead? Should you not endure being cheated instead? 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 CPDV But you are doing the injuring and the cheating, and this toward brothers! BSB BSB: Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, even against your own brothers!
Members of Christ 9 CPDV Do you not know that the iniquitous will not possess the kingdom of God? Do not choose to wander astray. For neither fornicators, nor servants of idolatry, nor adulterers, 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 CPDV nor the effeminate, nor males who sleep with males, nor thieves, nor the avaricious, nor the inebriated, nor slanderers, nor the rapacious shall possess 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 CPDV And some of you were like this. But you have been absolved, but you have been sanctified, but you have been justified: all in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and in 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 CPDV All is lawful to me, but not all is expedient. All is lawful to me, but I will not be driven back by the authority of anyone. 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 CPDV Food is for the stomach, and the stomach is for food. But God shall destroy both the stomach and food. And the body is not for fornication, but rather for the Lord; and the Lord is 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 CPDV Truly, God has raised up the Lord, and he will raise us up by his power. BSB BSB: By His power God raised the Lord from the dead, and He will raise us also.
15 CPDV Do you not know that your bodies are a part of Christ? So then, should I take a part of Christ and make it a part of a harlot? Let it not be so! 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 CPDV And do you not know that whoever is joined to a harlot becomes one body? “For the two,” he said, “shall be as 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 CPDV But whoever 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 CPDV Flee from fornication. Every sin whatsoever that a man commits is outside of the body, but whoever fornicates, 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 CPDV For you have been bought at a great price. Glorify and carry God in your body. BSB BSB: you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.
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