6. But now one believer goes to court against another, and you let people who are not believers judge their case!
7. The lawsuits that you have against each other show that you are already defeated. It would be better for you to let someone wrong you. It would be better to let someone cheat you.
8. But you are the ones doing wrong and cheating. And you do this to your own brothers and sisters in Christ!
9-10. Surely you know that people who do wrong will not get to enjoy God’s kingdom. Don’t be fooled. These are the people who will not get to enjoy his kingdom: those who sin sexually, those who worship idols, those who commit adultery, men who let other men use them for sex or who have sex with other men, those who steal, those who are greedy, those who drink too much, those who abuse others with insults, and those who cheat.
11. In the past some of you were like that. But you were washed clean, you were made holy, and you were made right with God in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
12. “I am allowed to do anything,” you say. My answer to this is that not all things are good. Even if it is true that “I am allowed to do anything,” I will not let anything control me like a slave.
13. Someone else says, “Food is for the stomach, and the stomach for food.” Yes, and God will destroy them both. But the body is not for sexual sin. The body is for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.
14. And God will raise our bodies from death with the same power he used to raise the Lord Jesus.
15. Surely you know that your bodies are parts of Christ himself. So I must never take what is part of Christ and join it to a prostitute!
16. The Scriptures say, “The two people will become one.” So you should know that anyone who is joined with a prostitute becomes one with her in body.
17. But anyone who is joined with the Lord is one with him in spirit.
18. So run away from sexual sin. It involves the body in a way that no other sin does. So if you commit sexual sin, you are sinning against your own body.