¹ Does any one of you that has a matter of dispute with another, presume to be judged before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?

² Know you not that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you unworthy to decide concerning the smallest matters?

³ Know you not that we shall judge angels? Much more then, things pertaining to this life.

⁴ If, then, you have controversies pertaining to things of this life, set them to judge who are the least esteemed in the church.

⁵ I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not among you a wise man, not even one, who shall be able to arbitrate between his brethren?

⁶ But brother goes to law with brother, and this before the unbelievers?

⁷ Now, certainly, you are altogether in fault, that you have law-suits with one another. Why do you not rather suffer injustice? Why do you not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?

⁸ But you act unjustly, and you defraud, and that, too, your brethren.

⁹ Know you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither lewd persons, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor catamites, nor sodomites,

¹⁰ nor thieves, nor defrauders, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, 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 meats are lawful for me: but all are not profitable. All are lawful for me; but I will not be brought under subjection by any.

¹³ Meats for the stomach, and the stomach for meats; but God will destroy both it and them. But the body is not for lewdness, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body:

¹⁴ and God has raised, up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his power.

¹⁵ Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I, then, take the members of the Christ, and make them the members of a harlot? It must not be.

¹⁶ Know you not that he that is joined to a harlot, is one body? For the two, says the scripture, shall be one flesh.

¹⁷ But he that is joined to the Lord, is one spirit.

¹⁸ Shun lewdness. Every sin that a man commits, is without the body; but he that is guilty of lewdness sins against his own body.

¹⁹ Know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, which you have from God, and that you are not your own?

²⁰ For you have been bought with a price: therefore, glorify God in your body.