{"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/kjv/1-corinthians/6","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-28T20:59:03.561Z"},"reference":{"translation":"KJV","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 law before the unjust, and not before the saints?"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"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?"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"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?"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"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 <i>suffer yourselves to</i> be defrauded?"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that <i>your</i> brethren."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"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,"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body <i>is</i> not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make <i>them</i> the members of an harlot? God forbid."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost <i>which is</i> in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's."}],"citation":{"inline":"1 Corinthians 6 (KJV)","markdown":"[1 Corinthians 6](https://primebible.com/kjv/1-corinthians/6)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* KJV. https://primebible.com/kjv/1-corinthians/6 (accessed 2026-05-28)."}}