Epistula I ad Corinthios, 6
1. Audet aliquis vestrum habens negotium adversus alterum iu dicari apud iniquos et non apud sanctos?
1. When one of you has a grievance against a brother, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints?
2. An nescitis quoniam sancti de mundo iudicabunt? Et si in vobis iudicabitur mundus, indigni estis minimis iudiciis?
2. Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases?
3. Nescitis quoniam angelos iudicabimus, quanto magis saecularia?
3. Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, matters pertaining to this life!
4. Saecularia igitur iudicia si habueritis, contemptibiles, qui sunt in ecclesia, illos constituite ad iudicandum?
4. If then you have such cases, why do you lay them before those who are least esteemed by the church?
5. Ad verecundiam vestram dico! Sic non est inter vos sapiens quisquam, qui possit iudicare inter fratrem suum?
5. I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no man among you wise enough to decide between members of the brotherhood,
6. Sed frater cum fratre iudicio contendit, et hoc apud infideles?
6. but brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers?
7. Iam quidem omnino defectio est vobis, quod iudicia habetis inter vosmetipsos! Quare non magis iniuriam accipitis, quare non magis fraudem patimini?
7. To have lawsuits at all with one another is defeat for you. Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded?
8. Sed vos iniuriam facitis et fraudatis, et hoc fratribus!
8. But you yourselves wrong and defraud, and that even your own brethren.
9. An nescitis quia iniqui regnum Dei non possidebunt? Nolite errare: neque fornicarii neque idolis servientes neque adulteri neque molles neque masculorum concubitores
9. Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither the immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor sexual perverts,
10. neque fures neque avari, non ebriosi, non maledici, non rapaces regnum Dei possidebunt.
10. nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor robbers will inherit the kingdom of God.
11. Et haec quidam fuistis. Sed abluti estis, sed sanctificati estis, sed iustificati estis in nomine Domini Iesu Christi et in Spiritu Dei nostri!
11. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in 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 for me," but not all things are helpful. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be enslaved by anything.
13. “Esca ventri, et venter escis!”. Deus autem et hunc et has destruet. Corpus autem non fornicationi sed Domino, et Dominus corpori;
13. "Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food" -- and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
14. Deus vero et Dominum suscitavit et nos suscitabit per virtutem suam.
14. And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power.
15. Nescitis quoniam corpora vestra membra Christi sunt? Tollens ergo membra Christi faciam membra meretricis? Absit!
15. Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I therefore take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!
16. An nescitis quoniam, qui adhaeret meretrici, unum corpus est? “Erunt enim, inquit, duo in carne una”.
16. Do you not know that he who joins himself to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, "The two shall become one flesh."
17. Qui autem adhaeret Domino, unus Spiritus est.
17. But he who is united to the Lord becomes one spirit with him.
18. Fugite fornicationem! Omne peccatum, quodcumque fecerit homo, extra corpus est; qui autem fornicatur, in corpus suum peccat.
18. Shun immorality. Every other sin which a man commits is outside the body; but the immoral man sins against his own body.
19. An nescitis quoniam corpus vestrum templum est Spiritus Sancti, qui in vobis est, quem habetis a Deo, et non estis vestri?
19. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God? You are not your own;
20. Empti enim estis pretio! Glorificate ergo Deum in corpore vestro.
20. you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
