---
title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition)
description: 1 Corinthians from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - translation
published: "1867"
publisher: RLDS Publication Board
publisher_place: Plano, Illinois
publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867."
edition: First edition (Plano, 1867)
language: en
type: book
chapter: 6
verse_count: 20
reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), 1 Corinthians, chap. 6, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft
  scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive
  transcription: "OCR text of the 1867 scans (Toronto copy and a second copy, holyscriptures00smit), reconciled word by word; Romans was also checked against the page images. Method, per-chapter validation log and known limits: docs/jst-1867-import.md."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1867 US publication
  source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  publication_year: 1867
---

# 1 Corinthians 6

*Saints should not go to law The unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God Our bodies are the. members of ChHst, and temples of the. Holy Ghost,— — They must not be defied.*

**1** DARE any of you, having a matter against, another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?
**2** Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
**3** Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?
**4** If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set, them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.
**5** I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?
**6** But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.
**7** Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? Why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?
**8** Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.
**9** Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
**10** Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
**11** And such were some of you; but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
**12** All these things are not lawful unto me, and all these things are not expedient. All things are not lawful for me, therefore I will not be brought under the power of any.
**13** Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats; but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
**14** And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.
**15** Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of a harlot? God forbid.
**16** What! know ye not that he which is joined to a harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
**17** But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
**18** Flee fornication. Every sin that a man committeth is against the body of Christ, and he who committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
**19** What! know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
**20** For ye are bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.