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Lawsuits Discouraged

¹ Does any one of you, when he has a ^(F1)case against ^(F2)his neighbor, dare to go to law before the unrighteous and ^(C1)not before the ^(F3)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 form the smallest ^(F2)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 anyone wise who will be able to decide between his ^(C2)brothers and sisters,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 suffer the wrong? Why not rather be defrauded?⁸ On the contrary, you yourselves do wrong and defraud. And this to your ^(C1)brothers and sisters!

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 the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor ^(F1)homosexuals,¹⁰ nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor those habitually drunk, nor verbal abusers, 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 ^(F1)in the Spirit of our God.

The Body Is the Lord's

^12 (C1)All things are permitted for me, but not all things are of benefit. All things are permitted for me, but I will not be mastered by anything.^13 (C1)Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, however God will ^(C2)do away with both ^(F1)of them. But the body is not for sexual 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 parts of Christ? Shall I then take away the parts of Christ and make them parts of a prostitute? ^(F1)(C3)Far from it!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 sexual immorality. Every other sin that a person commits is outside the body, but the ^(F1)sexually immoral person sins against his own body.¹⁹ Or ^(C1)do you not know that ^(C2)your body is a ^(F1)temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from ^(F2)God, and that ^(C3)you are not your own?²⁰ For ^(C1)you have been bought for a price: therefore glorify God in ^(C2)your body.