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1 Coríntios 6

BLIVRE · Chapter 6/16

1Algum de vós, tendo um assunto contra outro, ousa ir a juízo perante os injustos, e não perante os santos?

2Não sabeis que os santos julgarão ao mundo? E se o mundo é julgado por vós, por acaso sois vós indignos de julgar as coisas mínimas?

3Não sabeis que julgaremos aos anjos? Quanto mais as coisas desta vida!

4Pois se tiverdes assuntos em juízo, relativos a coisas desta vida, vós pondes como juízes aos que são menos estimados pela igreja?

5Eu digo [isto] para vos envergonhar. Não há entre vós algum sábio, nem pelo menos um, que não possa julgar entre seus irmãos?

6Mas irmão vai a juízo contra outro irmão, e isto perante incrédulos?

7Porém já é uma falta entre vós, por entre vós haverdes disputas. Por que não aceitais serdes injustiçados? Por que não aceitais o prejuízo?

8Mas vós [mesmos] injustiçais e prejudicais, e isto aos irmãos.

9Ou não sabeis que os injustos não herdarão o Reino de Deus? Não erreis: nem os pecadores sexuais, nem os idólatras, nem os adúlteros, nem os sexualmente efeminados, nem os homens que fazem sexo com homens,

10Nem os ladrões, nem os gananciosos, nem os beberrões, nem os maldizentes, nem os extorsores herdarão o Reino de Deus.

11E isto alguns de vós éreis. Mas [já] estais lavados, e santificados, e justificados no nome do Senhor Jesus, e pelo Espírito de nosso Deus.

12Todas as coisas me são lícitas, mas nem todas as coisas convêm; todas as coisas me são lícitas, porém eu não deixarei me sujeitar por coisa alguma.

13A comida é para o estômago, e o estômago é para a comida; mas Deus os aniquilará, tanto a um, como ao outro. Porém o corpo não é para o pecado sexual, mas para o Senhor, e o Senhor [é] para o corpo.

14E Deus ressuscitou ao Senhor, e também por seu poder nos ressuscitará.

15Não sabeis vós que vossos corpos são membros de Cristo? Tomarei pois os membros de Cristo, e os farei membros de uma prostituta? De maneira nenhuma!

16Ou não sabeis que o que se junta [sexualmente] com uma prostituta se torna um [só] corpo [com ela] ? Porque [a Escritura] diz: Os dois serão uma [só] carne.

17Mas o que se junta com o Senhor, [com ele] se torna um [só] espírito.

18Fugi do pecado sexual. Todo pecado que o ser humano comete é fora do corpo; mas o que pratica pecado sexual, peca contra seu próprio corpo.

19Ou não sabeis que vosso corpo é templo do Espírito Santo, o qual está em vós, o qual tendes de Deus, e [que] não sois de vós mesmos?

20Porque vós fostes comprados por alto preço; então glorificai a Deus em vosso corpo, e em vosso espírito, que são de 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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