1 Kaip kai kurie iš jūsų, turėdami ginčų, drįsta bylinėtis vieni su kitais pas neteisiuosius, o ne pas šventuosius?

2 Ar nežinote, kad šventieji teis pasaulį? O jeigu teisite pasaulį, tai nejaugi esate neverti išspręsti menkų bylų?

3 Ar nežinote, kad mes teisime angelus, tad juo labiau­kasdieninius dalykus?

4 Taigi, kai turite bylų kasdieniais reikalais, negi savo teisėjais paskirsite neturinčius balso bažnyčioje?

5 Tai sakau, norėdamas jus sugėdinti. Nejaugi pas jus nėra nė vieno išmintingo, kuris sugebėtų išspręsti tarp brolių iškilusią bylą?

6 Bet brolis bylinėjasi su broliu ir tai daro pas netikinčius.

7 Ir iš viso jums didelis pažeminimas, kad tarpusavyje bylinėjatės. Ar ne geriau pakęsti skriaudą? Ar ne geriau pakęsti apgaulę?

8 Deja, jūs patys skriaudžiate ir apgaudinėjate, ir dar brolius!

9 Ar nežinote, kad neteisieji nepaveldės Dievo karalystės? Neapsigaukite! Nei ištvirkėliai, nei stabmeldžiai, nei svetimautojai, nei homoseksualistai,

10 nei vagys, nei gobšai, nei girtuokliai, nei keikūnai, nei plėšikai nepaveldės Dievo karalystės.

11 Kai kurie iš jūsų buvote tokie, bet dabar esate nuplauti, pašventinti, išteisinti Viešpaties Jėzaus Kristaus vardu ir mūsų Dievo Dvasia.

12 Viskas man leistina, bet ne viskas naudinga. Viskas man leistina, bet aš nesiduosiu niekieno pavergiamas!

13 Valgis yra pilvui ir pilvas­valgiui, bet Dievas sunaikins ir vieną, ir kitą. Tačiau kūnas skirtas ne ištvirkavimui, bet Viešpačiui, o Viešpats­kūnui.

14 Kaip Dievas prikėlė Viešpatį­prikels ir mus savo jėga.

15 Argi nežinote, kad jūsų kūnai yra Kristaus nariai? Tad nejaugi aš, ėmęs Kristaus narius, paversiu juos paleistuvės nariais? Jokiu būdu!

16 Ar nežinote, kad tas, kuris susijungia su paleistuve, tampa vienas kūnas su ja? Nes "du taps,­sako Raštas,­vienu kūnu".

17 Taip pat, kas susijungia su Viešpačiu, tampa viena dvasia su Juo.

18 Saugokitės ištvirkimo! Bet kokia kita žmogaus daroma nuodėmė nepaliečia kūno, o ištvirkėlis nusideda savo kūnui.

19 Ar nežinote, kad jūsų kūnas yra šventykla jumyse gyvenančios Šventosios Dvasios, kurią gavote iš Dievo, ir kad jūs nebepriklausote patys sau?

20 Jūs esate nupirkti už didelę kainą. Tad šlovinkite Dievą savo kūnu ir savo dvasia, kurie yra Dievo.

1 Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? 2 Don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters? 3 Don’t you know that we will judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life? 4 If then you have to judge things pertaining to this life, do you set them to judge who are of no account in the assembly? 5 I say this to move you to shame. Isn’t there even one wise man among you who would be able to decide between his brothers? 6 But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers! 7 Therefore it is already altogether a defect in you that you have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded? 8 No, but you yourselves do wrong and defraud, and that against your brothers.

9 Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom. 11 Some of you were such, but you were washed. You were sanctified. You were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

12 "All things are lawful for me," but not all things are expedient. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be brought under the power of anything. 13 "Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods," but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14 Now God raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his power. 15 Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be! 16 Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, "The two", he says, "will become one flesh." 17 But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit. 18 Flee sexual immorality! "Every sin that a man does is outside the body," but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. 19 Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, 20 for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.