✧1Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? ✧2Or know ye not that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? ✧3Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more, things that pertain to this life? ✧4If then ye have to judge things pertaining to this life, do ye set them to judge who are of no account in the church? ✧5I say [this] to move you to shame. What, cannot there be [found] among you one wise man who shall be able to decide between his brethren, ✧6but brother goeth to law with brother, and that before unbelievers? ✧7Nay, already it is altogether a defect in you, that ye have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather take wrong? why not rather be defrauded?
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✧8Nay, but ye yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that [your] brethren.
✧9Or 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 men,
✧10nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
✧11And such were some of you: but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.
✧12All things are lawful for me; but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful for me; but I will not be brought under the power of any.
✧13Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall bring to nought both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:
✧14and God both raised the Lord, and will raise up us through his power.
✧15Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ? shall I then take away the members of Christ, and make them members of a harlot? God forbid.
✧16Or know ye not that he that is joined to a harlot is one body? for, The twain, saith he, shall become one flesh.
✧17But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
✧18Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
✧19Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own;
✧20for ye were bought with a price: glorify God therefore in your body.