OrthJBC - I Corinthians - 6

6:1  Does anyone of you having a dispute with an Ach b'Moshiach dare to be judged before the resha'im (unrighteous, evildoers) and not before the Bet Din of the kedoshim?

6:2  Or do you not have da'as that the kedoshim will sit in mishpat over the Olam Hazeh? And if the Olam Hazeh is to be judged by you, are you incompetent dayanim to try the smallest cases?

6:3  Do you lack da'as that the malachim will come before our Bet Din? Not to mention the things of Olam Hazeh!

6:4  If you have, then, cases concerning matters of Olam Hazeh, how could you appoint as your Bet Din dayanim men who have no standing in the kehillah?

6:5  I speak to your bushah (shame)--is there not among you even one chacham (wise man) among you who will be able to sit in mishpat between his Achim b'Moshiach?

6:6  But an Ach b'Moshiach takes another Ach b'Moshiach to court, and this before the courtroom of Apikorosim (unbelievers)?

6:7  Already, therefore, it is a total defeat for you, that you have lawsuits with one another. Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be cheated?

6:8  But you yourselves do wrong and practice hona'ah (cheating), and this to your Achim b'Moshiach.

6:9  Or do you not have da'as that the resha'im (unrighteous ones) will not inherit the Malchut Hashem? Do not fall under remiyah (guile, deceit); neither zanayim (fornicators) nor ovdei elilim (idolaters) nor mena'afim (adulterers) nor effeminate call-boys nor shochvei zachar (homosexuals) [Iyov 13:9; Vayikra 18:20; Devarim 22:22; Vayikra 18:22]

6:10  nor ganavim (thieves) nor kamtzanim (misers) nor shikkorim (drunkards) nor megadefim (revilers) nor the ones practices hona'ah (swindling) will inherit the Malchut Hashem.

6:11  And some of you were these things. But you were made tahor (clean), washed, you were made to be am kadosh, you were made to be yitzdak im Hashem in the name of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua Adoneinu and in the Ruach Hakodesh of Eloheinu. LET HODAH (PRAISE) BE IN YOUR GUF (BODY) [BERESHIS 47:18; TEHILLIM 16:9-10; IYOV 19:25-27; YESHAYAH 53:11 AS YOU GLORIFY HIM WITH ALL YOUR NATURAL CAPACITIES (BERESHIS 29:35); JUST AS IT SAYS IN MELACHIM ALEF 6:3-5 THAT THE BEIS HAMIKVEH HAD A ULAM (PORTICO), A DEVIR (INNER SANCTUARY, THE KODESH KEDOSHIM), AND THE HEIKHAL (MAIN HALL), SO SHA'UL CORRECTS POPULAR GOYISHE TEACHINGS IN THE KEHILLAH ABOUT OKHEL AND ZENUT, SHOWING THAT THE GUF (BODY) IS THE HEIKHAL OF THE RUACH HAKODESH; GEVIYATEINU (OUR BODIES) ARE FOR MOSHIACH BEN YOSEF ADONI (BERESHIS 47:18-19); THEREFORE DO NOT DEFILE THE MISHKAN; YOU WERE PURCHASED FROM BONDAGE WITH THE PIDYON SHEVUYIM (RANSON OF CAPTIVES--VAYIKRA 25:48; RUTH 3:12; YESHAYAH 61:1; HOSHEA 13:14) OF REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH'S KORBAN PESACH IN AN EXODUS OF HITKHADESHUT; YOU ARE NOT YOUR OWN; MOSHIACH HAS PROVIDED THE PIDYON NEFESH, EVEN THE PLAGUE WHICH HE TOOK FOR US, THE PLAGUE WITH WHICH THE BET DOVID WOULD BE STRICKEN (SHEMOT 21:29-30; 30:10-12; DEVARIM 15:12; DIVREI HAYAMIM ALEF 21:17; YESHAYAH 53:8) AND WE NOW BELONG TO REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH BEN YOSEF ADONEINU (BERESHIS 44:9) AND OUR GUF (BODY) IS FOR HASHEM (YECHEZKEL 1:11; BERESHIS 47:18-19; IYOV 19:25-26; YESHAYAH 25:8; HOSHEA 13:14; TEHILLIM 16:9; DANIEL 12:2)

6:12  "All things to me are proper (10:23)!" But not all things are beneficial; "All things to me are proper!" But I will not be mastered by anything.

6:13  "Maakhal (food) for the beten (stomach) and the beten for Maakhal," but Hashem will destroy both one and the other (1:8; 3:13; 5:5); but the guf (body) is not for zenut (fornication) but for Hashem, and Hashem for the guf (body).

6:14  And Hashem brought about the Techiyas haMesim for Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu and will also bring about the Techiyas haMesim for us through his gevurah (power).

6:15  Do you not have da'as that your gufot (bodies) are evarim (members, limbs) of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach? Should I then take the evarim (members) of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach and make them evarim (members) of a zonah (prostitute)? Chas v'Shalom! (G-d forbid!) RAV SHA'UL ON RAZAH DEYIHUDAH (THE SECRET OF UNION)

6:16  Or do you have no da'as that of the one joining himself to a zonah V'HAYU L'VASAR ECHAD ("And they will be as one flesh" BERESHIS 2:24)? [Bereshis 2:24]

6:17  But the one with devekut ("cleaving, attachment"--DEVARIM 11:22) to Hashem has achdut (union) in the Ruach Hakodesh with Elohim.

6:18  Flee zenut (Mishle 6:23-7:27)! Every chet is outside the guf (body), but the one guilty of zenut commits chet against the guf (body) itself. MOSHIACH'S PIDYON SHEVUIM (RANSOMING OF THE CAPTIVES)

6:19  Or have you no da'as that your guf (body) is a Heikhal Hashem of the Ruach Hakodesh in you, whom you have from Hashem, and you are not your own?

6:20  For [the Geulah redemption of] you [from the Golus of Chet] was purchased with a price; therefore, bring kavod to Hashem with your gufot. [Tehillim 74:2]