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Lawsuits among Believers

¹ If any of you has a dispute against another, how dare you take it to court^(C1) before the unrighteous,^(F1) and not before the saints? ² Or 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 trivial cases? ³ Don’t you know that we will judge angels—how much more matters of this life? ⁴ So if you have such matters, do you appoint as your judges those who have no standing^(C1) in the church? ⁵ I say this to your shame!^(C1) Can it be that there is not one wise person among you who is able to arbitrate between fellow believers?^{(C2) 6} Instead, brother goes to court against brother, and that before unbelievers!^(C1)

⁷ As it is, to have legal disputes against one another is already a defeat for you.^(C1) Why not rather be wronged?^(C2) Why not rather be cheated?^{(C3) 8} Instead, you yourselves do wrong and cheat—and you do this to brothers and sisters! ⁹ Don’t you know that the unrighteous^(C1) will not inherit God’s kingdom?^(C2) Do not be deceived: No sexually immoral people, idolaters,^(C3) adulterers,^(C4) or males who have sex with males,^{(F1)(C5) 10} no thieves,^(C1) greedy^(C2) people, drunkards, verbally abusive people,^(C3) or swindlers^(C4) will inherit God’s kingdom. ¹¹ And some of you used to be like this.^(C1) But you were washed, you were sanctified,^(C2) you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

Glorifying God in Body and Spirit

¹² “Everything is permissible^(C1) for me,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible for me,” but I will not be mastered by anything. ¹³ “Food^(C1) is for the stomach and the stomach for food,” and God will do away with both of them. However, the body is not for sexual immorality^(C2) but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. ¹⁴ God raised up the Lord and will also raise us up by his power.^{(C1) 15} Don’t you know that your bodies are a part of Christ’s body?^(C1) So should I take a part of Christ’s body and make it part of a prostitute? Absolutely not! ¹⁶ Don’t you know that anyone joined to a prostitute is one body with her? For Scripture says, The two will become one flesh.^{(F1)(C1) 17} But anyone joined^(C1) to the Lord is one spirit^(C2) with him.

¹⁸ Flee^(C1) sexual immorality! Every other sin^(F1) a person commits is outside the body, but the person who is sexually immoral^(C2) sins against his own body. ¹⁹ Don’t you know that your body is a temple^(C1) of the Holy Spirit^(C2) who is in you,^(C3) whom you have from God? You are not your own, ²⁰ for you were bought^(C1) at a price. So glorify God with your body.^(F1)