1 Corinthians 6

KING JAMES BIBLE	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
1 Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?	1 How can any one of you with a case against another dare to bring it to the unjust for judgment instead of to the holy ones?
2 Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?	2 Do you not know that the holy ones will judge the world? If the world is to be judged by you, are you unqualified for the lowest law courts?
3 Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?	3 Do you not know that we will judge angels? Then why not everyday matters?
4 If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.	4 If, therefore, you have courts for everyday matters, do you seat as judges people of no standing in the church?
5 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 brethren?	5 I say this to shame you. Can it be that there is not one among you wise enough to be able to settle a case between brothers?
6 But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.	6 But rather brother goes to court against brother, and that before unbelievers?
7 Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?	7 Now indeed (then) it is, in any case, a failure on your part that you have lawsuits against one another. Why not rather put up with injustice? Why not rather let yourselves be cheated?
8 Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.	8 Instead, you inflict injustice and cheat, and this to brothers.
9 Know ye 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,	9 Do you not know that the unjust will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers nor boy prostitutes nor sodomites
10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.	10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor robbers will inherit the kingdom of God.
11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.	11 That is what some of you used to be; but now you have had yourselves washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.
12 All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.	12 "Everything is lawful for me," but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is lawful for me," but I will not let myself be dominated by anything.
13 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.	13 "Food for the stomach and the stomach for food," but God will do away with both the one and the other. The body, however, is not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body;
14 And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.	14 God raised the Lord and will also raise us by his power.
15 Know ye 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.	15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take Christ's members and make them the members of a prostitute? Of course not!
16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.	16 (Or) do you not know that anyone who joins himself to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For "the two," it says, "will become one flesh."
17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.	17 But whoever is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him.
18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that commiteth fornication sinneth against his own body.	18 Avoid immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the immoral person sins against his own body.
19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?	19 Do you not know that your body is a temple of the holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?
20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.	20 For you have been purchased at a price. Therefore, glorify God in your body.