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1 Coríntios 6

ARC · Chapter 6/16

1Ousa algum de vós, tendo algum negocio contra outro, ir a juizo perante os injustos, e não perante os sanctos?

2Não sabeis vós que os sanctos hão de julgar o mundo? Ora, se o mundo deve ser julgado por vós, sois porventura indignos de julgar as coisas minimas?

3Não sabeis vós que havemos de julgar os anjos? Quanto mais as coisas pertencentes a esta vida?

4Assim que, se tiverdes negocios em juizo, pertencentes a esta vida, ponde na cadeira aos que são de menos estima na egreja.

5Para vos envergonhar o digo: Não ha pois entre vós sabios, nem ainda um, que possa julgar entre seus irmãos?

6Mas o irmão vae a juizo com o irmão, e isto perante infieis.

7Assim que é já realmente uma falta entre vós, terdes demandas uns contra os outros. Porque não soffreis antes a injustiça? Porque não soffreis antes o damno

8Mas vós mesmos fazeis a injustiça e fazeis o damno; e isto aos irmãos.

9Não sabeis que os injustos não hão de herdar o reino de Deus?

10Não erreis: nem os fornicadores, nem os idolatras, nem os adulteros, nem os effeminados, nem os sodomitas, nem os ladrões, nem os avarentos, nem os bebedos, nem os maldizentes, nem os roubadores herdarão o reino de Deus.

11E é o que alguns teem sido, mas haveis sido lavados, mas haveis sido sanctificados, mas haveis sido justificados em nome do Senhor Jesus, e pelo Espirito do nosso Deus.

12Todas as coisas me são licitas, mas nem todas as coisas conveem: todas as coisas me são licitas; porém eu não me deixarei dominar por nenhuma.

13Os manjares são para o ventre e o ventre para os manjares; porém Deus aniquilará, tanto um como os outros. Porém o corpo não é para a fornicação, mas para o Senhor, e o Senhor para o corpo

14Ora Deus, que tambem resuscitou o Senhor, nos resuscitará a nós pelo seu poder.

15Não sabeis vós que os vossos corpos são membros de Christo? Tomarei pois os membros de Christo, e fal-os-hei membros de uma meretriz? Não, por certo.

16Ou não sabeis que o que se ajunta com a meretriz, faz-se um corpo? Porque serão, disse, dois n'uma só carne.

17Mas o que se ajunta com o Senhor é um mesmo espirito.

18Fugi da fornicação. Todo o peccado que o homem commette é fóra do corpo; mas o que fornica pecca contra o seu proprio corpo.

19Ou não sabeis que o nosso corpo é o templo do Espirito Sancto, que habita em vós, o qual tendes de Deus, e que não sois de vós mesmos?

20Porque fostes comprados por preço; glorificae pois a Deus no vosso corpo, e no vosso espirito, os quaes pertencem a Deus.

📖 Chapter study

Summary

Paul rebukes the Corinthian Christians for taking disputes between brothers to pagan courts instead of resolving them among themselves. He also warns against sexual immorality, reminding them that the believer's body is a temple of the Holy Spirit.

Explanation

Two practical issues appear here: lawsuits between believers and sexual ethics. On the matter of lawsuits, Paul argues that it is shameful for brothers in the faith, who will one day judge the world alongside Christ, to be unable to settle simple disputes among themselves without resorting to unbelieving judges. On sexuality, he teaches that the physical body is not indifferent to faith: it is a member of Christ and a temple of the Holy Spirit, so sexual union outside of God's purpose carries real spiritual weight. Today's application is twofold: seek reconciliation and mediation within the faith community itself whenever possible, and treat the body with the respect of someone who knows it belongs to God.

Fun facts

  • Civil courts in Corinth were known for favoring citizens of higher social status and wealth, which made it even more serious for a poor Christian to be dragged into court by a wealthier brother.
  • The phrase 'you were bought with a price' (v.20) uses language from the slave market of the time, evoking the idea that Christ paid the ransom to set the believer free, a metaphor repeated also in 1 Corinthians 7:23.

Verse-by-verse explanation

  1. 1 Coríntios 6:1In Corinth, citizens sued one another before Roman judges, often over money or public honor. Paul finds it absurd that brothers in the faith would take their quarrels to these pagan courts instead of settling them among themselves.
  2. 1 Coríntios 6:2Paul recalls a common Jewish idea: the saints will take part in the final judgment of the world alongside God. If that is so, the Corinthians should be able to settle small disputes among themselves without resorting to pagan courts.
  3. 1 Coríntios 6:3He goes further: if even angels will be judged by believers (another idea of the time), how much more should they be able to settle simple everyday matters among brothers.
  4. 1 Coríntios 6:4Ironically, Paul suggests that even the least respected members of the church would be more fit to judge these internal matters than taking everything to outside pagan judges.
  5. 1 Coríntios 6:5A direct rebuke: is there really no one wise enough in the church to mediate a dispute between brothers, without having to air everything publicly in a Roman court?
  6. 1 Coríntios 6:6The concrete problem: brother suing brother, and before judges who do not even share the faith — a public scandal that exposes the Corinthian church.
  7. 1 Coríntios 6:7Having lawsuits among themselves is already a spiritual defeat; Paul suggests it would be better to suffer a loss or an injustice than to drag a brother into a public legal fight.
  8. 1 Coríntios 6:8But in practice the problem was worse: the Corinthians themselves were committing the injustice and causing the harm to one another, not just passively suffering it.
  9. 1 Coríntios 6:9The list of who “shall not inherit the kingdom of God” includes terms that translators still understand differently today, especially the words rendered here as “effeminate” and “abusers of themselves with mankind” — the exact meaning of the original Greek words is debated among scholars, and this is a reading that divides interpreters.
  10. 1 Coríntios 6:10The list from the previous verse continues about who “shall not inherit the kingdom of God” — it includes thieves, the covetous, drunkards, and those who sue and defraud their brothers, tying the theme back to the lawsuits.
  11. 1 Coríntios 6:11Most of the church had already lived that kind of life before believing — what matters now is the real change Christ made: washed, sanctified, justified. This is no time to go back to that old behavior.
  12. 1 Coríntios 6:12“All things are lawful unto me” seems to be a phrase the Corinthians themselves had been repeating to justify their excesses. Paul repeats their saying and immediately corrects it: not everything permitted is good, and he refuses to be enslaved by anything, not even by his own freedom.
  13. 1 Coríntios 6:13Paul answers another Corinthian saying (“meats for the belly, and the belly for meats”) by comparing food and sex: food is temporary, but the body was not made for sexual immorality — it was made to belong to the Lord.
  14. 1 Coríntios 6:14He reminds them that the same power that raised Jesus will also raise the bodies of believers — an argument that the physical body matters to God, not something disposable, as they seemed to think in Corinth.
  15. 1 Coríntios 6:15A shocking question: since the believer’s body is a “member of Christ,” would it make sense to join that same body to a prostitute, common in the port city of Corinth? Paul answers emphatically that it would not.
  16. 1 Coríntios 6:16He quotes Genesis to explain why sexual union, even with a prostitute, creates a real bond (“one flesh”) — it is not a neutral act, as they seemed to think in Corinth.
  17. 1 Coríntios 6:17He contrasts this physical union with the spiritual union of the believer with the Lord — both kinds of bond are real, but of very different natures.
  18. 1 Coríntios 6:18A direct command: flee sexual immorality. Unlike other sins, this one affects the person’s own body in a unique way, according to Paul’s argument.
  19. 1 Coríntios 6:19Unlike the collective temple in chapter 3, here “the temple of the Holy Ghost” is the body of each individual believer. “Bought with a price” uses the language of the slave market — someone paid to set this person free, so she is no longer her own to do whatever she wants with her own body.
  20. 1 Coríntios 6:20He closes the chapter: believers were “bought with a price” (the death of Christ), so the body is no longer the person’s exclusive property — it must be used to glorify God.

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