Lawsuits among believers
1If any of you has a dispute with another, do you dare to take it before the ungodly for judgment instead of before the Lord’s people? 2Or do you not know that the Lord’s people will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases? 3Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life! 4Therefore, if you have disputes about such matters, do you ask for a ruling from those whose way of life is scorned in the church? 5I say this to shame you. Is it possible that there is nobody among you wise enough to judge a dispute between believers? 6But instead, one brother takes another to court – and this in front of unbelievers!
7The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means you have been completely defeated already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated? 8Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, and you do this to your brothers and sisters. 9Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men6:9 The words men who have sex with men translate two Greek words that refer to the passive and active participants in homosexual acts. 10nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
Sexual immorality
12‘I have the right to do anything,’ you say – but not everything is beneficial. ‘I have the right to do anything’ – but I will not be mastered by anything. 13You say, ‘Food for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will destroy them both.’ The body, however, is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also. 15Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! 16Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, ‘The two will become one flesh.’6:16 Gen. 2:24 17But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit.6:17 Or in the Spirit
18Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body. 19Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20you were bought at a price. Therefore honour God with your bodies.
16:1 Mat 18:17Omuntu yenna mu mmwe bw’aba n’ensonga ne munne, agitwala eri abatali batuukirivu oba eri abatukuvu? 26:2 Mat 19:28; Luk 22:30Oba temumanyi ng’abatukuvu be balisalira ensi omusango? Kale obanga mmwe mulisalira ensi omusango, temusobola kusala nsonga ntono eziri mu mmwe? 3Temumanyi nga ffe tulisalira bamalayika omusango, okwo nga totaddeeko bintu bya mu bulamu buno? 4Kale bwe muba n’ensonga lwaki muzitwala mu abo abanyoomebwa ekkanisa ne mubalonda okuba abalamuzi? 56:5 a 1Ko 4:14 b Bik 1:15Njagala kubakwasa nsonyi; ddala mu mmwe temuli muntu n’omu alina magezi asobola okusala ensonga wakati w’abooluganda? 66:6 2Ko 6:14, 15Naye owooluganda ayinza okuwoza n’owooluganda mu maaso g’abatali bakkiriza?
76:7 Mat 5:39, 40N’okuwozaŋŋana mwekka na mwekka kiraga nti muli mu kabi. Lwaki obutamala gakolwanga bubi? Lwaki obutamala galyazaamaanyizibwanga? 86:8 1Bs 4:6Naye musobya baganda bammwe ne mubalyazaamaanya. 96:9 a Bag 5:21 b 1Ko 15:33; Yak 1:16Oba temumanyi ng’abatali batuukirivu tebaliyingira mu bwakabaka bwa Katonda? Temulimbibwanga. Abakaba, newaakubadde abasinza bakatonda abalala, newaakubadde abenzi, newaakubadde abasajja abeeyisa ng’abakazi, newaakubadde abalya ebisiyaga,6:9 bamalaaya abasajja n’abasajja abaalyanga ebisiyaga baali bangi mu nsi ya Buyonaani ne mu Baruumi 10newaakubadde ababbi, newaakubadde aboomululu, newaakubadde abatamiivu, newaakubadde abajerega, newaakubadde abanyazi tebaliyingira mu bwakabaka bwa Katonda. 116:11 a Bef 2:2 b Bik 22:16 c 1Ko 1:2Era abamu ku mmwe mwali nga bo, naye ebibi byammwe byanaazibwa era mwatukuzibwa era mwaweebwa obutuukirivu mu linnya lya Mukama waffe Yesu Kristo n’Omwoyo wa Katonda waffe.
Ekibi eky’obwenzi
126:12 1Ko 10:23Ebintu byonna nzikirizibwa okubikola, mu mateeka, naye byonna tebinsanira. Ebintu byonna nzikirizibwa okubikola naye sigenda kufugibwa kintu na kimu. 136:13 Bak 2:22Ebyokulya bya lubuto, n’olubuto lwa byakulya. Naye byombi Katonda alibizikiriza. Omubiri si gwa bwenzi, naye gwa Mukama. 146:14 Bar 6:5; Bef 1:19, 20Era Katonda eyazuukiza Mukama waffe alituzuukiza olw’amaanyi ge. 156:15 Bar 12:5Temumanyi ng’emibiri gyammwe bitundu bya Kristo? Ate nzirire ebitundu bya Kristo mbifuule eby’omwenzi? Kikafuuwe. 166:16 Lub 2:24; Mat 19:5; Bef 5:31Oba temumanyi nti omuntu yenna eyeegatta n’omwenzi, emibiri gyammwe gifuuka gumu? Kubanga kigambibwa nti, “Bombi balifuuka omubiri gumu.” 176:17 Yk 17:21-23; Bag 2:20Naye eyeegatta ne Mukama waffe bafuuka omu mu mwoyo.
186:18 a 2Ko 12:21; 1Bs 4:3, 4; Beb 13:4 b Bar 6:12Mudduke obwenzi. Buli kibi omuntu ky’akola kiba ku mubiri, naye ayenda akola ekibi ku mubiri gwe ye yennyini. 196:19 a Yk 2:21 b Bar 14:7, 8Oba temumanyi ng’omubiri gwammwe ye Yeekaalu ya Mwoyo Mutukuvu Katonda gwe yabawa, era n’emibiri gyammwe si gyammwe ku bwammwe? 206:20 Bik 20:28; 1Ko 7:23; 1Pe 1:18, 19; Kub 5:9Kubanga mwagulibwa na muwendo, noolwekyo emibiri gyammwe gigulumizenga Katonda.
