The Concordant Literal New Testament

Paul To The Corinthians (I.)

¹ Dare any of you, having business with another, be judged before the unjust, and not before the saints?
² Or are you not aware that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world is being judged by you, are you unworthy of the least tribunals?
³ Are you not aware that we shall be judging messengers, not to mention life's affairs?
⁴ If indeed, then, you should have tribunals for life's affairs, the contemptible in the ecclesia, these you are seating?
⁵ To abash you am I saying this. Thus is there not among you one wise man who will be able to adjudicate amidst his brethren,
⁶ but brother is suing brother, and this before unbelievers!
⁷ Already, indeed, then, it is absolutely a discomfiture for you that you are having lawsuits among yourselves. Wherefore are you not rather being injured? Wherefore are you not rather being cheated?
⁸ But you are injuring and cheating, and this to brethren!
⁹ Or are you not aware that the unjust shall not be enjoying the allotment of God's kingdom? Be not deceived. Neither paramours, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor catamites, nor sodomites,
¹⁰ nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards; no revilers, no extortioners shall be enjoying the allotment of God's kingdom.
¹¹ And some of you were these, but you are bathed off, but you are hallowed, but you were justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and by the spirit of our God.
¹² All is allowed me, but not all is expedient. All is allowed me, but I will not be put under its authority by anything.
¹³ Foods for the bowels and the bowels for foods, yet God will be discarding these as well as those. Now the body is not for prostitution, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
¹⁴ Now God rouses the Lord also, and will be rousing us up through His power.
¹⁵ Are you not aware that your bodies are members of Christ? Taking, then, the members of Christ away, should I be making them members of a prostitute? May it not be coming to that!
¹⁶ Or are you not aware that he who joins a prostitute is one body? For, He is averring, the two will be one flesh.
¹⁷ Now he who joins the Lord is one spirit.
¹⁸ Flee from prostitution. The penalty of every sin, whatsoever a man should be doing, is outside of the body, yet he who is committing prostitution is sinning against his own body.
¹⁹ Or are you not aware that your body is a temple of the holy spirit in you, which you have from God, and you are not your own?
²⁰ For you are bought with a price. By all means glorify God in your body.

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