Epistula I ad Corinthios, 6

1. audet aliquis vestrum habens negotium adversus alterum judicari apud iniquos et non apud sanctos

1. Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to be judged before the unjust, and not before the saints ?

2. an nescitis quoniam sancti de mundo judicabunt et si in vobis judicabitur mundus indigni estis qui de minimis judicetis

2. Know you not that the saints shall judge this world ? And if the world shall be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters ?

3. nescitis quoniam angelos judicabimus quanto magis sæcularia

3. Know you not that we shall judge angels ? how much more things of this world ?

4. sæcularia igitur judicia si habueritis contemptibiles qui sunt in ecclesia illos constituite ad judicandum

4. If therefore you have judgments of things pertaining to this world, set them to judge, who are the most despised in the church.

5. ad verecundiam vestram dico sic non est inter vos sapiens quisquam qui possit judicare inter fratrem suum

5. I speak to your shame. Is it so that there is not among you any one wise man, that is able to judge between his brethren ?

6. sed frater cum fratre judicio contendit et hoc apud infideles

6. But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before unbelievers.

7. jam quidem omnino delictum est in vobis quod judicia habetis inter vos quare non magis iniuriam accipitis quare non magis fraudem patimini

7. Already indeed there is plainly a fault among you, that you have lawsuits one with another. Why do you not rather take wrong? Why do you not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?

8. sed vos iniuriam facitis et fraudatis et hoc fratribus

8. But you do wrong and defraud, and that to your brethren.

9. an nescitis quia iniqui regnum Dei non possidebunt nolite errare neque fornicarii neque idolis servientes neque adulteri

9. Know you not that the unjust shall not possess the kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers,

10. neque molles neque masculorum concubitores neque fures neque avari neque ebriosi neque maledici neque rapaces regnum Dei possidebunt

10. Nor the effeminate, nor liers with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor railers, nor extortioners, shall possess the kingdom of God.

11. et hæc quidam fuistis sed abluti estis sed sanctificati estis sed justificati estis in nomine Domini nostri Jesu Christi et in Spiritu Dei nostri

11. And such some of you were; but you are washed, but you are sanctified, but you are justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Spirit of our God.

12. omnia mihi licent sed non omnia expediunt omnia mihi licent sed ego sub nullius redigar potestate

12. All things are lawful to me, but all things are not expedient. All things are lawful to me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

13. esca ventri et venter escis Deus autem et hunc et hæc destruet corpus autem non fornicationi sed Domino et Dominus corpori

13. Meat for the belly, and the belly for the meats; but God shall destroy both it and them: but the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

14. Deus vero et Dominum suscitavit et nos suscitabit per virtutem suam

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

15. nescitis quoniam corpora vestra membra Christi sunt tollens ergo membra Christi faciam membra meretricis absit

15. Know you 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.

16. an nescitis quoniam qui adheret meretrici unum corpus efficitur erunt enim inquit duo in carne una

16. Or know you not, that he who is joined to a harlot, is made one body ? For they shall be, saith he, two in one flesh.

17. qui autem adheret Domino unus spiritus est

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

18. fugite fornicationem omne peccatum quodcumque fecerit homo extra corpus est qui autem fornicatur in corpus suum peccat

18. Fly fornication. Every sin that a man doth, is without the body; but he that committeth fornication, sinneth against his own body.

19. an nescitis quoniam membra vestra templum est Spiritus Sancti qui in vobis est quem habetis a Deo et non estis vestri

19. Or know you not, that your members are the temple of the Holy Ghost, who is in you, whom you have from God; and you are not your own ?

20. empti enim estis pretio magno glorificate et portate Deum in corpore vestro

20. For you are bought with a great price. Glorify and bear God in your body.