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1 Corinthians 6 — Disputes among believers and the body belonging to the Lord — Greek text and reception

Saints Translation: 1 Corinthians 1–16 [V2]

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1 Corinthians 6 — Disputes among believers and the body belonging to the Lord

Disputes before the unrighteous

Verse 6:1

Greek–English Translation

Does any of you, having a case against another, dare to seek judgment before the unrighteous and not before the saints?

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Verse 6:2

Greek–English Translation

Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy of the smallest cases?

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Verse 6:3

Greek–English Translation

Do you not know that we will judge angels, to say nothing of matters of ordinary life?

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Verse 6:4

Greek–English Translation

If, then, you have cases concerning ordinary life, do you seat as judges those held in no regard in the Church?

Textual and Reception Notes

Text: Kathizete can be indicative or imperative; the selected punctuation presents a question, followed here. Those held in no regard can mean people whom the Church does not recognize as its judges, rather than necessarily its poorest members.

Verse 6:5

Greek–English Translation

I say this to your shame. Is there really no wise person among you who will be able to decide his brother's case,

Textual and Reception Notes

Text: The Greek is compressed: decide between his brother, with no explicit second brother phrase. His brother's case supplies an English object from the litigation context; the apparatus records a proposed addition but the selected main text does not adopt it.

Variant [SBL-1COR-APP 6:5]: The apparatus retains the compressed wording under WH, Treg, NA28 and RP; the additional second brother is marked as an emendation associated with Holmes, not adopted into the running text.

Verse 6:6

Greek–English Translation

but brother goes to court against brother, and that before unbelievers?

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Verse 6:7

Greek–English Translation

Indeed, it is already altogether a defeat for you that you have lawsuits with one another. Why not instead be wronged? Why not instead be defrauded?

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Verse 6:8

Greek–English Translation

But you yourselves do wrong and defraud—and do this to brothers.

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The kingdom and the cleansing of the community

Verse 6:9

Greek–English Translation

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit God's kingdom? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate men, nor men who bed males,

Textual and Reception Notes

Text: Malakoi is literally soft; effeminate men retains its traditional moral-sexual rendering, not a modern identity category. Arsenokoitai is rendered men who bed males, keeping the two list terms distinct. The precise scope of the first term and the practices encompassed by the second require specialist contextual review. Lexical evidence: Thayer's entries malakos and arsenokoitēs, in the accessed Bible Hub reproductions, give respectively a passive male sexual interpretation and intercourse with a male. These historical glosses do not by themselves settle every modern application. [TH-MAL; TH-ARS]

Verse 6:10

Greek–English Translation

nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor the abusive, nor the grasping will inherit God's kingdom.

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Verse 6:11

Greek–English Translation

And some of you were these things. But you washed yourselves clean, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and in the Spirit of our God.

Textual and Reception Notes

Text: The first verb is middle, apelousasthe, expressed as washed yourselves clean; the following two are passive. This grammatical distinction does not claim that cleansing occurs independently of God: the name and Spirit phrases remain explicit. The selected title is the Lord Jesus without an added Christ or our. The middle can also be rendered had yourselves washed; morphology alone does not settle the full personal or divine agency.

Variant [SBL-1COR-APP 6:11]: The apparatus assigns Lord Jesus to RP, Lord Jesus Christ to Treg and NA28, and our Lord Jesus Christ to WH.

NA28: τοῦ κυρίου Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, "the Lord Jesus Christ" (SBLGNT τοῦ κυρίου Ἰησοῦ with RP); the rendering above follows SBLGNT; NA28 would read "the Lord Jesus Christ".

The body, union with Christ, and the Spirit's temple

Verse 6:12

Greek–English Translation

All things are permitted to me, but not all things are beneficial. All things are permitted to me, but I will not be brought under the authority of anything.

Textual and Reception Notes

Text: The repeated liberty claim and both qualifications are retained. Whether the claim quotes a Corinthian slogan is an interpretive question; quotation marks are not added to decide it. Permitted and authority echo the related Greek words.

Verse 6:13

Greek–English Translation

Foods are for the stomach, and the stomach for foods, but God will bring both it and them to an end. Yet the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

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Verse 6:14

Greek–English Translation

God both raised the Lord and will raise us through His power.

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Verse 6:15

Greek–English Translation

Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I, then, take Christ's members and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!

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Verse 6:16

Greek–English Translation

Or do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For He says, “The two will become one flesh.”

Textual and Reception Notes

Text: The quotation introduces one flesh beside the preceding one body; both nouns are retained.

Verse 6:17

Greek–English Translation

But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him.

Textual and Reception Notes

Text: One spirit states the union; lowercase avoids using typography to decide the precise relation between the believer's spirit and the Holy Spirit.

Verse 6:18

Greek–English Translation

Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.

Textual and Reception Notes

Text: The sweeping first statement and the bodily contrast are preserved. Whether part of this verse echoes an interlocutor's claim remains interpretive; no speaker change is installed without an explicit attribution.

Verse 6:19

Greek–English Translation

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? And you are not your own,

Textual and Reception Notes

Text: Body is singular with plural your; the paragraph concerns believers' bodies and their shared belonging. No single collective-versus-individual theory is made exclusive by translation.

Verse 6:20

Greek–English Translation

for you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God in your body.

Textual and Reception Notes

Text: The selected verse ends with your body. The additional wording about your spirit and both belonging to God is absent from this main text.

Variant [SBL-1COR-APP 6:20]: The apparatus records the extension about your spirit, which belongs to God, under RP; it is absent from the selected wording.