1 D are any one of you, having a matter against another, prosecute his suit before the unjust, and not before the saints?

2 D o ye not then know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy of smallest judgments?

3 D o ye not know that we shall judge angels? and not then matters of this life?

4 I f then ye have judgments as to things of this life, set those who are little esteemed in the assembly.

5 I speak to you to shame. Thus there is not a wise person among you, not even one, who shall be able to decide between his brethren!

6 B ut brother prosecutes his suit with brother, and that before unbelievers.

7 A lready indeed then it is altogether a fault in you that ye have suits between yourselves. Why do ye not rather suffer wrong? why are ye not rather defrauded?

8 B ut ye do wrong, and defraud, and this brethren.

9 D o ye not know that unrighteous shall not inherit kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who make women of themselves, nor who abuse themselves with men,

10 n or thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor abusive persons, nor rapacious, shall inherit kingdom of God.

11 A nd these things were some of you; but ye have been washed, but ye have been sanctified, but ye have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

12 A ll things are lawful to me, but all things do not profit; all things are lawful to me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

13 M eats for the belly, and the belly for meats; but God will bring to nothing both it and them: but the body not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

14 A nd God has both raised up the Lord, and will raise us up from among by his power.

15 D o ye not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then, taking the members of the Christ, make members of a harlot? Far be the thought.

16 D o ye not know that he joined to the harlot is one body? for the two, he says, shall be one flesh.

17 B ut he that joined to the Lord is one Spirit.

18 F lee fornication. Every sin which a man may practise is without the body, but he that commits fornication sins against his own body.

19 D o ye not know that your body is temple of the Holy Spirit which in you, which ye have of God; and ye are not your own?

20 f or ye have been bought with a price: glorify now then God in your body.