1 Corinthians 6

The TorahRooted Bible (TRB), translated directly from the Hebrew and Greek.

Lawsuits among believers

¹ Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unrighteous, 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 unworthy to judge the smallest matters? ³ Do you not know that we shall judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life? ⁴ If then you have judgments concerning things pertaining to this life, do you appoint those who are least esteemed in the assembly to judge? ⁵ I say this to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you, not even one, who will be able to judge between his brothers? ⁶ But brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers! ⁷ Now therefore, it is already an utter failure for you that you go to law against one another. Why do you not rather accept wrong? Why do you not rather let yourselves be cheated? ⁸ No, you yourselves do wrong and cheat, and you do these things to your brothers!

⁹ Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of Elohim? Do not be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor men who lie with males, ¹⁰ nor the covetous, nor thieves, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of Elohim. ¹¹ And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Yeshua and by the Spirit of our Elohim.

Glorify Elohim in your body

¹² All things are lawful for me, but not all things are helpful. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of anything. ¹³ Foods for the stomach and the stomach for foods, but Elohim will bring to nothing both it and them. Now the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. ¹⁴ And Elohim both raised up the Lord and will also raise us up by His power. ¹⁵ Do you not know that your bodies are members of the Messiah? Shall I then take the members of the Messiah and make them members of a harlot? Certainly not! ¹⁶ Do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body? For, He says, "the two shall 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 do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from Elohim, and you are not your own? ²⁰ For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify Elohim in your body and in your spirit, which are Elohim's.

Notes

• 6:1 "Matter" is pragma, here a legal case, the same word Yeshua used in "concerning any matter that they ask" (Matthew 18:19), in the passage on settling a dispute with a brother (Matthew 18:15-17). Jewish communities in the cities of the Roman world commonly settled disputes among themselves, and Josephus records Roman decrees allowing them to do so (Antiquities 14.235). Paul asks the believers to do no less, instead of bringing one another before pagan judges.
• 6:9 "Effeminate" is malakoi, literally "soft," used in Greek writings among other things of men who took the passive part with other men; "men who lie with males" is arsenokoitai, which many think was formed from the Greek translation of Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13 (see the note at Leviticus 18:22). Paul names these together with other sins the Torah forbids, and then he says, "And such were some of you" (verse 11): the assembly included people who had been washed and changed.
• 6:12 "All things are lawful for me" is widely thought to be a saying used by some at Corinth, which Paul quotes and then corrects, as again in 10:23; "foods for the stomach and the stomach for foods" (verse 13) may be another. The word is exestin, "it is permitted," and in the same passage Paul forbids sexual immorality (verses 13-18) and names those who will not inherit the kingdom (verses 9-10), so the saying cannot mean that Elohim's commandments no longer apply. Paul answers it with what is helpful and with not being mastered by anything.
• 6:16 Paul quotes Genesis 2:24, where the Hebrew reads "and they shall become one flesh"; "the two" is the wording of the Greek translation, which Yeshua also used (Matthew 19:5). Yeshua attributed the words to the Creator (Matthew 19:4-5), and the TRB reads "He says."
• 6:20 "Bought" recalls Israel, the people of whom Moses sang, "whom You have acquired" (Exodus 15:16), redeemed from Egypt to belong to Yahweh. The words "and in your spirit, which are Elohim's" are in the Majority Text, which the TRB follows; many modern Bibles end the verse at "in your body."

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