New Revised Standard NRS
The Bible in Basic English BBE
1 When any of you has a grievance against another, do you dare to take it to court before the unrighteous, instead of taking it before the saints?
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How is it, that if any one of you has a cause at law against another, he takes it before a Gentile judge and not before the saints?
2 Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases?
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Is it not certain that the saints will be the judges of the world? if then the world will be judged by you, are you unable to give a decision about the smallest things?
3 Do you not know that we are to judge angels—to say nothing of ordinary matters?
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Is it not certain that we are to be the judges of angels? how much more then of the things of this life?
4 If you have ordinary cases, then, do you appoint as judges those who have no standing in the church?
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If then there are questions to be judged in connection with the things of this life, why do you put them in the hands of those who have no position in the church?
5 I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to decide between one believer and another,
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I say this to put you to shame. Is there not among you one wise man who may be able to give a decision between his brothers?
6 but a believer goes to court against a believer —and before unbelievers at that?
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But a brother who has a cause at law against another takes it before Gentile judges.
7 In fact, to have lawsuits at all with one another is already a defeat for you. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?
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More than this, it is not to your credit to have causes at law with one another at all. Why not put up with wrong? why not undergo loss?
8 But you yourselves wrong and defraud—and believers at that.
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So far from doing this, you yourselves do wrong and take your brothers' property.
9 Do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! Fornicators, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes, sodomites,
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Have you not knowledge that evil-doers will have no part in the kingdom of God? Have no false ideas about this: no one who goes after the desires of the flesh, or gives worship to images, or is untrue when married, or is less than a man, or makes a wrong use of men,
10 thieves, the greedy, drunkards, revilers, robbers—none of these will inherit the kingdom of God.
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Or is a thief, or the worse for drink, or makes use of strong language, or takes by force what is not his, will have any part in the kingdom of God.
11 And this is what some of you used to be. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.
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And such were some of you; but you have been washed, you have been made holy, you have been given righteousness in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.
12 "All things are lawful for me," but not all things are beneficial. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be dominated by anything.
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I am free to do all things; but not all things are wise. I am free to do all things; but I will not let myself come under the power of any.
13 "Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food," and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is meant not for fornication but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
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Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will put an end to them together. But the body is not for the desires of the flesh, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:
14 And God raised the Lord and will also raise us by his power.
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And God who made the Lord Jesus come back from the dead will do the same for us by his power.
15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Should I therefore take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!
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Do you not see that your bodies are part of the body of Christ? how then may I take what is a part of the body of Christ and make it a part of the body of a loose woman? such a thing may not be.
16 Do you not know that whoever is united to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For it is said, "The two shall be one flesh."
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Or do you not see that he who is joined to a loose woman is one body with her? for God has said, The two of them will become one flesh.
17 But anyone united to the Lord becomes one spirit with him.
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But he who is united to the Lord is one spirit.
18 Shun fornication! Every sin that a person commits is outside the body; but the fornicator sins against the body itself.
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Keep away from the desires of the flesh. Every sin which a man does is outside of the body; but he who goes after the desires of the flesh does evil to his body.
19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God, and that you are not your own?
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Or are you not conscious that your body is a house for the Holy Spirit which is in you, and which has been given to you by God? and you are not the owners of yourselves;
20 For you were bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body.
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For a payment has been made for you: let God be honoured in your body.
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