| | King James | American std |
| 1 | Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints? | Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? |
| 2 | Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? | Or know ye not that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? |
| 3 | Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life? | Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more, things that pertain to this life? |
| 4 | If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church. | If then ye have to judge things pertaining to this life, do ye set them to judge who are of no account in the church? |
| 5 | I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren? | I say [this] to move you to shame. What, cannot there be [found] among you one wise man who shall be able to decide between his brethren, |
| 6 | But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers. | but brother goeth to law with brother, and that before unbelievers? |
| 7 | Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded? | Nay, already it is altogether a defect in you, that ye have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather take wrong? why not rather be defrauded? |
| 8 | Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren. | Nay, but ye yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that [your] brethren. |
| 9 | Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, | Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men, |
| 10 | Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. | nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. |
| 11 | And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. | And such were some of you: but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God. |
| 12 | All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. | 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 any. |
| 13 | Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. | Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall bring to nought both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body: |
| 14 | And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power. | and God both raised the Lord, and will raise up as through his power. |
| 15 | Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid. | Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ? shall I then take away the members of Christ, and make them members of a harlot? God forbid. |
| 16 | What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. | Or know ye not that he that is joined to a harlot is one body? for, The twain, saith he, shall become one flesh. |
| 17 | But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. | But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. |
| 18 | Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. | Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. |
| 19 | What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? | Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own; |
| 20 | For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. | for ye were bought with a price: glorify God therefore in your body. |
