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Lawsuits Discouraged

¹ Does any one of you, when he has a ^(F1)case against his neighbor, dare to go to law before the unrighteous and ^(C1)not before the ^(F2)saints?² Or ^(C1)do you not know that ^(C2)the ^(F1)saints will judge ^(C3)the world? If the world is judged by you, are you not competent to ^(F2)constitute the smallest law courts?^3 (C1)Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more matters of this life?⁴ So if you have law courts dealing with matters of this life, ^(F1)do you appoint them as judges who are of no account in the church?^5 (C1)I say this to your shame. Is it so, that there is not among you one wise man who will be able to decide between his ^(C2)brethren,⁶ but brother goes to law with brother, and that before ^(C1)unbelievers?

⁷ Actually, then, it is already a defeat for you, that you have lawsuits with one another. ^(C1)Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?⁸ On the contrary, you yourselves wrong and defraud. You do this even to your ^(C1)brethren.

⁹ Or ^(C1)do you not know that the unrighteous will not ^(C2)inherit the kingdom of God? ^(C3)Do not be deceived; ^(C4)neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor ^(F1)effeminate, nor homosexuals,¹⁰ nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will ^(C1)inherit the kingdom of God.^11 (C1)Such were some of you; but you were ^(C2)washed, but you were ^(C3)sanctified, but you were ^(C4)justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

The Body Is the Lord's

^12 (C1)All things are lawful for me, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be mastered by anything.^13 (C1)Food is for the ^(F1)stomach and the ^(F1)stomach is for food, but God will ^(C2)do away with both ^(F2)of them. Yet the body is not for immorality, but ^(C3)for the Lord, and ^(C4)the Lord is for the body.¹⁴ Now God has not only ^(C1)raised the Lord, but ^(C2)will also raise us up through His power.^15 (C1)Do you not know that ^(C2)your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take away the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? ^(C3)May it never be!¹⁶ Or ^(C1)do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For He says, "^(C2)THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH."¹⁷ But the one who joins himself to the Lord is ^(C1)one spirit with Him.^18 (C1)Flee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the ^(F1)immoral man sins against his own body.¹⁹ Or ^(C1)do you not know that ^(C2)your body is a ^(F1)temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from ^(F2)God, and that ^(C3)you are not your own?²⁰ For ^(C1)you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in ^(C2)your body.