# 1 Corinthians 06 📖: Lawsuits and Sexual Purity [[📚 Explore the Bible Books]] [[-1 Corinthians Overview]] | [[1 Corinthians 05]] | [[1 Corinthians 07]] > [!info] Table of Contents > [[#📜 Scripture Text (NET)]] > [[#📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary]] > [[#🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights]] > [[#🧠 Chapter Summary]] > [[#✝️ Christ in This Chapter]] > [[#🔎 Key Observations / 🛟 Life Application]] > [[#💬 Discussion Questions]] > [[#✍️ Key Verses to Remember]] > [[#🔗 Related Passages]] > [[#🙏 Devotional Reflection]] > [[#📂 Internal Notes]] ## 📜 Scripture Text (NET) (The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005) #### Lawsuits **Principle**: When possible, work it out ourselves. [[#Verse 01.]] When any of you has a legal dispute with another, does he dare go to court before the unrighteous rather than before the saints?  [[#Verse 02.]] Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you not competent to settle trivial suits?  [[#Verse 03.]] Do you not know that we will judge angels? Why not ordinary matters!  [[#Verse 04.]] So if you have ordinary lawsuits, do you appoint as judges those who have no standing in the church? [[#Verse 05.]] I say this to your shame! Is there no one among you wise enough to settle disputes between fellow Christians?  [[#Verse 06.]] Instead, does a Christian sue a Christian, and do this before unbelievers?  [[#Verse 07.]] The fact that you have lawsuits among yourselves demonstrates that you have already been defeated. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?  [[#Verse 08.]] But you yourselves wrong and cheat, and you do this to your brothers and sisters! [[#Verse 09.]] Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! The sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, passive homosexual partners, practicing homosexuals,  [[#Verse 10.]] thieves, the greedy, drunkards, the verbally abusive, and swindlers will not inherit the kingdom of God.  [[#Verse 11.]] Some of you once lived this way. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. ### Flee Sexual Immorality **Principle**: Just because you can don't mean you should. [[#Verse 12.]] “All things are lawful for me”—but not everything is beneficial. “All things are lawful for me”—but I will not be controlled by anything.  [[#Verse 13.]] “Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both.” The body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.  [[#Verse 14.]] Now God indeed raised the Lord and he will raise us by his power.  [[#Verse 15.]] Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Should I take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!  [[#Verse 16.]] Or do you not know that anyone who is united with a prostitute is one body with her? For it is said, “**_The two will become one flesh_**.” [[Genesis 02]] [[#Verse 17.]] But the one united with the Lord is one spirit with him.  [[#Verse 18.]] Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin a person commits is outside of the body”—but the immoral person sins against his own body.  [[#Verse 19.]] Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? [[#Verse 20.]] For you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body. ## 📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary ###### Overall. ###### Verse 01. ###### Verse 02. ###### Verse 03. ###### Verse 04. ###### Verse 05. ###### Verse 06. ###### Verse 07. ###### Verse 08. ###### Verse 09. ###### Verse 10. ###### Verse 11. ###### Verse 12. ###### Verse 13. ###### Verse 14. ###### Verse 15. ###### Verse 16. ###### Verse 17. ###### Verse 18. ###### Verse 19. ###### Verse 20. ## 🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights 1. Roman civil courts often favored the wealthy and well connected, so lawsuits could become tools of the powerful. 2. Jewish communities in the Roman world often settled disputes among themselves rather than in Gentile courts. 3. Paul seems to quote Corinthian slogans, such as "All things are lawful for me" (6:12) and "Food is for the stomach" (6:13), and then corrects them. 4. Corinth had a reputation for immorality. The Greek playwright Aristophanes used a verb meaning "to act like a Corinthian" for sexual immorality. 5. The famous report of a thousand temple prostitutes at Corinth (from the geographer Strabo) describes the older Greek city, not the Roman colony of Paul's day. 6. In 6:16 Paul quotes Genesis 2:24: "The two will become one flesh." 7. "Bought at a price" (6:20) is marketplace language that would have reminded readers of slave sales. 8. Paul's list in 6:9-10 includes the greedy, drunkards, and swindlers, not only sexual sins. 9. "Washed, sanctified, justified" (6:11) are all past tense in Greek, describing what God has already done. 10. Paul grounds sexual ethics in the resurrection: God will raise our bodies (6:14), so what we do with them matters. ## 🧠 Chapter Summary > [!note] 🌱 Still growing. This section is on its way. ## ✝️ Christ in This Chapter Christ is the One in whose name we were washed, sanctified, and justified (6:11). We were bought at a price (6:20), so our bodies are members of Christ and temples of the Holy Spirit (1 Peter 1:18-19). ## 🔎 Key Observations / 🛟 Life Application > [!note] 🌱 Still growing. This section is on its way. ## 💬 Discussion Questions 1. Believers in Corinth were taking each other to court (6:1-8). Why does Paul say it is better to be wronged than to harm a brother or sister? 2. "Some of you once lived this way" (6:11). How does remembering where God brought you from shape your view of others? 3. Your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit (6:19-20). How should that truth change the way we think about sex, health, and habits? ## ✍️ Key Verses to Remember - 📖 verse 11: Some of you were once like this, but you were washed, sanctified, and justified in the name of the Lord Jesus. - 📖 verse 12: Not everything is beneficial, and I will not be controlled by anything. - 📖 verse 18: Flee sexual immorality. - 📖 verses 19-20: Your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit; you were bought at a price, so glorify God with your body. ## 🔗 Related Passages - 🔗 [[Matthew 18#Verse 15.|Matthew 18:15-17]] - Settling matters within the church (6:1). - 🔗 [[Daniel 07#Verse 22.|Daniel 7:22]] - The saints share in judgment (6:2-3). - 🔗 [[Matthew 19#Verse 28.|Matthew 19:28]] - The saints share in judgment (6:2-3). - 🔗 [[Matthew 05#Verse 39.|Matthew 5:39-40]] - Turn the other cheek (6:7). - 🔗 [[Galatians 05#Verse 19.|Galatians 5:19-21]] - Those who will not inherit the kingdom (6:9-10). - 🔗 [[Ephesians 05#Verse 05.|Ephesians 5:5]] - Those who will not inherit the kingdom (6:9-10). - 🔗 [[Titus 03#Verse 05.|Titus 3:5-7]] - Washed, renewed, and justified by grace (6:11). - 🔗 [[1 Corinthians 10#Verse 23.|1 Corinthians 10:23]] - Not everything is beneficial (6:12). - 🔗 [[Genesis 02#Verse 24.|Genesis 2:24]] - The two become one flesh (6:16). - 🔗 [[Genesis 39#Verse 12.|Genesis 39:12]] - Joseph flees; abstain from immorality (6:18). - 🔗 [[1 Thessalonians 04#Verse 03.|1 Thessalonians 4:3]] - Joseph flees; abstain from immorality (6:18). - 🔗 [[1 Corinthians 03#Verse 16.|1 Corinthians 3:16]] - God's Spirit dwells in you (6:19). - 🔗 [[1 Peter 01#Verse 18.|1 Peter 1:18-19]] - Bought with the precious blood of Christ (6:20). ## 🙏 Devotional Reflection 📝 SOAP: [[1 Corinthians 06 - SOAP|Free NOT to Sin]] ## 📂 Internal Notes