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¹ When any controversy arises among you, will any one presume to appeal to the Gentiles, and not to Christians? ² don't you know that these are to judge the world? if the world is to be judg'd by you, are not you qualify'd to decide your petty causes? ³ don't you know that we shall be judges of angels? much more then of the affairs of life? ⁴ if then you have the cognizance of such matters, why do ye set those to judge who are despised by the church? I speak it to your shame. ⁵ what, is there not a man of experience amongst you, capable of being arbitrator between his brethren? ⁶ but when a contest arises, you must refer the decision to infidels? ⁷ beside, you are absolutely in the wrong in going to law with one another at all: why don't you rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer loss? ⁸ nay, in this case, you act injuriously, and do damage even to your brethren.

⁹ Know you not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? be not deceived: neither the licentious, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor the brutal, ¹⁰ nor thieves, nor misers, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor raparees, shall inherit the kingdom of God. ¹¹ and such were some of you: but you have been washed, you have been sanctified, you have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and by the spirit of our God.

¹² Are all things lawful for me? however, all things are not expedient: are all things lawful for me? however, I will not be a slave to any. ¹³ "meat is design'd for the belly, and the belly for meat:" true, yet God has design'd both for destruction. now the body is not design'd for licentiousness, but for the glory of the Lord; since the Lord died for the glorification of the body: ¹⁴ for as God hath raised up the Lord, so will he likewise raise us up to partake of his own power. ¹⁵ Don't you know, that your bodies are parts of Christ's mystical body? now, how can that which is Christ's, be made the property of a very creature? ¹⁶ it cannot be. why, don't you perceive, that where there is such an attachment, they are but as one person? for the scripture says , "they two shall be as one." ¹⁷ but he that is attach'd to the Lord, is united to him by one and the same spirit. ¹⁸ flee licentiousness. no other sin that a man commits does affect the church as a body: but the licentious commits a fraud against the whole body to which he belongs. ¹⁹ what! know ye not that your bodies are the temple of the holy spirit, which is in you, which you have from God, and that you are not your own? ²⁰ for you are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.