• 1 Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?
  • 2 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?
  • 3 Know you not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?
  • 4 If then you 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 brothers?
  • 6 But brother goes to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.
  • 7 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?
  • 8 No, you do wrong, and defraud, and that your brothers.
  • 9 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,
  • 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortionists, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
  • 11 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.
  • 12 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.
  • 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 has both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.
  • 15 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.
  • 16 What? know you not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body?  for two, said he, shall be one flesh.
  • 17 But he that is joined to the Lord is one spirit.
  • 18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is without the body; but he that commits fornication sins against his own body.
  • 19 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?
  • 20 For you are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.