{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/dbt/1-corinthians/6","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-02T19:46:49.911Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DBT","book":"1 Corinthians","bookSlug":"1-corinthians","chapter":6,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":5,"nextChapter":7,"totalChapters":16,"totalVerses":20},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Dare any one of you, having a matter against another, prosecute his suit before the unjust, and not before the saints?"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Do ye not then know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy of the smallest judgments?"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Do ye not know that we shall judge angels? and not then matters of this life?"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"If then ye have judgments as to things of this life, set those to judge who are little esteemed in the assembly."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"I speak to you to put you to shame. Thus there is not a wise person among you, not even one, who shall be able to decide between his brethren!"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"But brother prosecutes his suit with brother, and that before unbelievers."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Already indeed then it is altogether a fault in you that ye have suits between yourselves. Why do ye not rather suffer wrong? why are ye not rather defrauded?"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"But ye do wrong, and defraud, and this your brethren."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Do ye not know that unrighteous persons shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who make women of themselves, nor who abuse themselves with men,"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor abusive persons, nor the rapacious, shall inherit the kingdom of God."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"And these things were some of you; but ye have been washed, but ye have been sanctified, but ye have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"All things are lawful to me, but all things do not profit; all things are lawful to me, but I will not be brought under the power of any."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats; but God will bring to nothing both it and them: but the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"And God has both raised up the Lord, and will raise us up from among the dead by his power."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Do ye not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then, taking the members of the Christ, make them members of a harlot? Far be the thought."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Do ye not know that he that is joined to the harlot is one body? for the two, he says, shall be one flesh."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"But he that is joined to the Lord is one Spirit."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Flee fornication. Every sin which a man may practise is without the body, but he that commits fornication sins against his own body."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Do ye not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have of God; and ye are not your own?"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"for ye have been bought with a price: glorify now then God in your body."}],"citation":{"inline":"1 Corinthians 6 (DBT)","markdown":"[1 Corinthians 6](https://primebible.com/dbt/1-corinthians/6)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DBT. https://primebible.com/dbt/1-corinthians/6 (accessed 2026-06-02)."}}