| New King James Version | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? | 1Does any one of you, when he has a case against his neighbor, dare to go to law before the unrighteous and not before the saints? |
| 2Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world will be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters? | 2Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? If the world is judged by you, are you not competent to constitute the smallest law courts? |
| 3Do you not know that we shall judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life? | 3Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more matters of this life? |
| 4If then you have judgments concerning things pertaining to this life, do you appoint those who are least esteemed by the church to judge? | 4So if you have law courts dealing with matters of this life, do you appoint them as judges who are of no account in the church? |
| 5I say this to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you, not even one, who will be able to judge between his brethren? | 5I say this to your shame. Is it so, that there is not among you one wise man who will be able to decide between his brethren, |
| 6But brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers! | 6but brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers? |
| 7Now therefore, it is already an utter failure for you that you go to law against one another. Why do you not rather accept wrong? Why do you not rather let yourselves be cheated? | 7Actually, then, it is already a defeat for you, that you have lawsuits with one another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded? |
| 8No, you yourselves do wrong and cheat, and you do these things to your brethren! | 8On the contrary, you yourselves wrong and defraud. You do this even to your brethren. |
| 9Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, | 9Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, |
| 10nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. | 10nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. |
| 11And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God. | 11Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God. |
| 12All things are lawful for me, but all things are not helpful. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. | 12All things are lawful for me, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be mastered by anything. |
| 13Foods for the stomach and the stomach for foods, but God will destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. | 13Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both of them. Yet the body is not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body. |
| 14And God both raised up the Lord and will also raise us up by His power. | 14Now God has not only raised the Lord, but will also raise us up through His power. |
| 15Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot? Certainly not! | 15Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take away the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be! |
| 16Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For “the two,” He says, “shall become one flesh.” | 16Or do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For He says, "THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH." |
| 17But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him. | 17But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him. |
| 18Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. | 18Flee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body. |
| 19Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? | 19Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? |
| 20For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s. | 20For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body. |
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