¹Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?

¹Våger nogen av eder, når han har sak mot sin næste, da å søke dom hos de urettferdige og ikke hos de hellige?

²Don’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?

²Eller vet I ikke at de hellige skal dømme verden? og dersom verden blir dømt ved eder, er I da uverdige til å dømme i de ringeste saker?

³Don’t you know that we will judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life?

³Vet I ikke at vi skal dømme engler? hvor meget mere da i timelige ting!

⁴If then, you have to judge things pertaining to this life, do you set them to judge who are of no account in the assembly?

⁴Når I da har saker om timelige ting, så setter I dem til dommere som ikke aktes for noget i menigheten!

⁵I 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?

⁵Til skam for eder sier jeg det. Så finnes det da ikke nogen vis mann iblandt eder, ikke en eneste én, som kan skille tretten for sin bror?

⁶But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers!

⁶men bror fører sak mot bror, og det for vantros domstol!

⁷Therefore 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?

⁷Det er jo i det hele allerede et tap for eder at I har saker mot hverandre. Hvorfor lider I ikke heller urett? hvorfor tåler I ikke heller skade?

⁸No, but you yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that against your brothers.

⁸Men I gjør urett og skade, og det mot brødre!

⁹Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

⁹Eller vet I ikke at de som gjør urett, ikke skal arve Guds rike? Far ikke vill! Hverken horkarler eller avgudsdyrkere eller ekteskapsbrytere eller bløtaktige eller de som synder mot naturen,

¹⁰nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortioners, will inherit the Kingdom of God.

¹⁰eller tyver eller havesyke eller drankere eller baktalere eller røvere skal arve Guds rike.

¹¹Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

¹¹Og således var det med somme av eder; men I har latt eder avtvette, I er blitt helliget, I er blitt rettferdiggjort i den Herre Jesu navn og i vår Guds Ånd.

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.

¹²Jeg har lov til alt - men ikke alt gagner; jeg har lov til alt - men jeg skal ikke la noget få makten over mig.

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.

¹³Maten er for buken, og buken for maten; og Gud skal gjøre ende på dem begge. Men legemet er ikke for hor, men for Herren, og Herren for legemet;

¹⁴Now God raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his power.

¹⁴og Gud har opvakt Herren og skal også opvekke oss ved sin kraft.

¹⁵Don’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!

¹⁵Vet I ikke at eders legemer er Kristi lemmer? skal jeg da ta Kristi lemmer og gjøre dem til en skjøges lemmer? Langt derifra!

¹⁶Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two,” says he, “will become one flesh.” Genesis 2:24

¹⁶Eller vet I ikke at den som holder sig til skjøgen, er ett legeme med henne? For det er sagt: De to skal være ett kjød.

¹⁷But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.

¹⁷Men den som holder sig til Herren, er én ånd med ham.

¹⁸Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

¹⁸Fly hor! Enhver synd som et menneske kan gjøre, er utenfor legemet; men den som driver hor, synder mot sitt eget legeme.

¹⁹Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,

¹⁹Eller vet I ikke at eders legeme er et tempel for den Hellige Ånd, som bor i eder, og som I har fra Gud, og at I ikke hører eder selv til?

²⁰for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

²⁰for I er dyrt kjøpt. Ær da Gud i eders legeme!