1Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? 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? 3Don’t you know that we will judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life? 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? 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? 6But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers! 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? 8No, but you yourselves do wrong and defraud, and that against your brothers.
9Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, 10nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom. 11Some of you were such, but you were washed. You were sanctified. You were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.
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. 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. 14Now God raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his power. 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! 16Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two”, he says, “will become one flesh.” 17But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit. 18Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. 19Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, 20for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.
Temple (Gk. ναός, naos). (2:7; Matt 13:11; Eph 1:9; 3:3, 4, 9; 5:32)
This word refers to a dwelling place of a deity, “temple.” In the Bible, the tabernacle and then the temple in Jerusalem define the category, and as the book of Hebrews explains, the archetype of the tabernacle was the heavenly dwelling place of God. In this passage, Paul proclaims that the individual believer is a temple of the Holy Spirit, a statement describing the relationship of the believer and God, and affirming the divinity of the Holy Spirit. Not only does Paul assert that the individual Christian is a temple of the Holy Spirit, He also describes a church as a temple of God (1 Cor 3:16, 17; 2 Cor 6:16; Eph 2:21). God is present in and dwells in the assembly of believers, the local church. The presence of God is central to both OT and NT theology, and is especially powerful in the NT’s incarnational theology. Of the 45 uses of this word, it is not surprising that nine are found in Matthew and sixteen in Revelation.