{"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/drb/1-corinthians/6","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T11:07:40.540Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DRB","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 of you, having a matter against another, go to be judged before the unjust, and not before the saints ? "},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Know you not that the saints shall judge this world ? And if the world shall be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters ? "},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Know you not that we shall judge angels ? how much more things of this world ? "},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"If therefore you have judgments of things pertaining to this world, set them to judge, who are the most despised in the church. "},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"I speak to your shame. Is it so that there is not among you any one wise man, that is able to judge between his brethren ? "},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before unbelievers. "},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Already indeed there is plainly a fault among you, that you have lawsuits one with another. Why do you not rather take wrong? Why do you not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded? "},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"But you do wrong and defraud, and that to your brethren. "},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Know you not that the unjust shall not possess the kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, "},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Nor the effeminate, nor liers with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor railers, nor extortioners, shall possess the kingdom of God. "},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"And such some of you were; but you are washed, but you are sanctified, but you are justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Spirit of our God. "},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"All things are lawful to me, but all things are not expedient. All things are lawful to me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. "},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Meat for the belly, and the belly for the meats; but God shall destroy both it and them: but the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. "},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Now God hath both raised up the Lord, and will raise us up also by his power. "},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Know you 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. "},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Or know you not, that he who is joined to a harlot, is made one body ? For they shall be, saith he, two in one flesh. "},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"But he who is joined to the Lord, is one spirit. "},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Fly fornication. Every sin that a man doth, is without the body; but he that committeth fornication, sinneth against his own body. "},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Or know you not, that your members are the temple of the Holy Ghost, who is in you, whom you have from God; and you are not your own ? "},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"For you are bought with a great price. Glorify and bear God in your body. "}],"citation":{"inline":"1 Corinthians 6 (DRB)","markdown":"[1 Corinthians 6](https://primebible.com/drb/1-corinthians/6)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DRB. https://primebible.com/drb/1-corinthians/6 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}