Paul confronts Christians suing fellow believers in pagan courts and misusing sexual freedom - closing with the verse that has anchored Christian ethics of the body for two thousand years: your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, bought with a price.

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Dare any of you having a matter against his neighbour go to law Before the unrighteous and not before the saints Don’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

Don’t you know that we will judge angels How much more things that pertain to this life If then you have to judge things pertaining to this life Do you set them to judge who are of no account in the assembly I say this to move you to shame Isn’t there even one wise man Amongst you who would be able to decide between his brothers

But brother goes to law with brother and that before unbelievers Therefore 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 No but you yourselves do wrong and defraud And that against your brothers

Or 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 Nor thieves nor covetous nor drunkards Nor slanderers nor extortionists will inherit God’s Kingdom

Some 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 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

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 Now God raised up the Lord and will also raise us up by his power

Don’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 Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body For The two he says will become one flesh

But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit Flee sexual immorality Every sin that a man does is outside the body But he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body Or 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 For you were bought with a price Therefore glorify God In your body and in your spirit which are God’s

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1 Corinthians 6 sung by Psalm Selah. The whole Bible, one chapter at a time.

Published 2026-05-22 · Last updated 2026-06-06
Written by Reid Wender, Editorial Director at Psalmody Press