1 Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law
before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? 2 Don’t you know
that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are
you unworthy to judge the smallest matters? 3 Don’t you know
that we will judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life?
4 If then, you have to judge things pertaining to this life, do
you set them to judge who are of no account in the assembly? 5 I say
this to move you to shame. Isn’t there even one wise man among you who would
be able to decide between his brothers? 6 But brother goes to law with
brother, and that before unbelievers! 7 Therefore it is already altogether
a defect in you, that you have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather
be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded? 8 No, but you yourselves do
wrong, and defraud, and that against your brothers. 9 Or don’t you
know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be
deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor
male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor
drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortioners, will inherit the Kingdom of God.
11 Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were
sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in
the Spirit of our God. 12 “All 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 anything. 13 “Foods for the belly, and the
belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the
body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the
body. 14 Now God raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his
power. 15 Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Christ?
Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a
prostitute? May it never be! 16 Or don’t you know that he who is
joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two,” says he, “will become one
flesh.” 17 But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit. 18 Flee
sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he
who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. 19 Or don’t
you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you,
which you have from God? You are not your own, 20 for you
were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your
spirit, which are God’s.
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