[1] When one of you has a grievance against a brother, does he dare go to
law before the unrighteous instead of the saints? [2] Do you not know that
the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you,
are you incompetent to try trivial cases? [3] Do you not know that we are
to judge angels? How much more, matters pertaining to this life! [4] If
then you have such cases, why do you lay them before those who are least
esteemed by the church? [5] I say this to your shame. Can it be that there
is no man among you wise enough to decide between members of the
brotherhood, [6] but brother goes to law against brother, and that before
unbelievers? [7] To have lawsuits at all with one another is defeat for
you. Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded? [8] But you
yourselves wrong and defraud, and that even your own brethren. [9] Do you
not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not
be deceived; neither the immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor sexual
perverts, [10] nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers,
nor robbers will inherit the kingdom of God. [11] And such were some of
you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the
name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God. [12] "All
things are lawful for me," but not all things are helpful. "All things are
lawful for me," but I will not be enslaved by anything. [13] "Food is meant
for the stomach and the stomach for food"--and God will destroy both one
and the other. The body is not meant for immorality, but for the Lord, and
the Lord for the body. [14] And God raised the Lord and will also raise us
up by his power. [15] Do you not know that your bodies are members of
Christ? Shall I therefore take the members of Christ and make them members
of a prostitute? Never! [16] Do you not know that he who joins himself to a
prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, "The two shall
become one flesh." [17] But he who is united to the Lord becomes one spirit
with him. [18] Shun immorality. Every other sin which a man commits is
outside the body; but the immoral man sins against his own body. [19] Do
you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you,
which you have from God? You are not your own; [20] you were bought with a
price. So glorify God in your body.
