DARE any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before
the unjust, and not before the saints?
2 Do
ye now know that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to
judge the smallest matters?
3 Know
ye not that we shall judge angels? How
much more things that pertain to this life?
4 If
then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge
who are least esteemed in the church.
5 I
speak to your shame. Is it so, that
there is not a wise man among you? No,
not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?
6 But brother goeth to law
with brother, and that before the unbelievers.
7 Now therefore there is
utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? Why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to
be defrauded?
8 Nay, ye do wrong, and
defraud, and that your brethren.
9 Know ye not that the
unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived:
neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate,
nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
10 Nor thieves, nor
covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the
kingdom of God.
11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified,
but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our
God.
12 All things are lawful
unto me, but all things are not expedient:
all tings are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power
of any.
13 Meats for the belly, and
the belly for meats: but God shall
destroy both it and them. Now the
body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
14 And God hath both raised
up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.
15 Know ye not that your
bodies are the members of Christ? Shall
I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an
harlot? God forbid.
16 What? Know ye not that he which is joined to an
harlot is one body? For two, saith
he, shall be one flesh.
17 But he that is joined
unto the Lord is one spirit.
18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the
body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
19 What? Know ye not that your body is the temple
of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your
own.
20 For ye are bought with a
price: therefore glorify God in your
body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
