Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?
Do you not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
Know you not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?
If then you have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.
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 brothers?
But brother goes to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.
Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because you go to law one with another. Why do you not rather take wrong? why do you not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?
No, you do wrong, and defraud, and that your brothers.
Know you 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,
Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortionists, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
And such were some of you: but you are washed, but you are sanctified, but you are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
All things are lawful to me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
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.
And God has both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.
Know you 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.
What? know you not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, said he, shall be one flesh.
But he that is joined to the Lord is one spirit.
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is without the body; but he that commits fornication sins against his own body.
What? know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which you have of God, and you are not your own?
For you are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
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Saints should not sue one another before unbelievers; the unrighteous (fornicators, idolaters, thieves, etc.) will not inherit God’s kingdom—yet believers were washed, sanctified, justified. Their bodies are members of Christ and temples of the Holy Spirit, so they must flee sexual immorality.
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