Lawsuits
Among Believers
If
any of you has a Dispute with another,
Dare
he take it before the Ungodly for Judgment
Instead
of before the Saints?
2
DO YOU NOT KNOW THAT THE SAINTS WILL JUDGE THE WORLD?
And
if you are to Judge the World,
Are
you not Competent to Judge Trivial Cases?
3
DO YOU NOT KNOW THAT WE WILL JUDGE ANGELS?
HOW
MUCH MORE THE THINGS OF THIS LIFE!
4
Therefore, if you have Disputes about such matters,
Appoint
as Judges even men of little account in the Church!
5 I
SAY THIS TO SHAME YOU.
Is
it possible that there is no body among you
Wise
enough to Judge a Dispute between believers?
6
BUT INSTEAD, ONE BROTHER GOES TO LAW AGAINST ANOTHER--
AND
THIS IN FRONT OF UNBELIEVERS!
7
THE VERY FACT THAT YOU HAVE LAWSUITS AMONG YOU
MEANS
YOU HAVE BEEN COMPLETELY DEFEATED ALREADY.
WHY
NOT RATHER BE WRONGED?
WHY
NOT RATHER BE CHEATED?
8
INSTEAD, YOU YOURSELVES CHEAT AND DO WRONG,
AND
YOU DO THIS TO YOUR BROTHERS.
9
DO YOU NO KNOW THAT THE WICKED
WILL
NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD?
10
DO NOT BE DECEIVED:
Neither
the Sexually Immoral nor Idolaters nor Adulterers
Nor
Male Prostitutes nor Homosexual offenders
10
Nor Thieves nor the Greedy nor Drunkards
Nor
Slanderers nor Swindlers
WILL
INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
11
AND THAT IS WHAT SOME OF YOU WERE.
BUT
YOU WERE WASHED, YOU WERE SANCTIFIED,
YOU
WERE JUSTIFIED
IN
THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST
AND
BY THE SPIRIT OF OUR GOD.
Sexual
Immorality
12
'EVERYTHING IS PERMISSIBLE FOR ME'--
BUT
NOT EVERYTHING IS BENEFICIAL.
'EVERYTHING
IS PERMISSIBLE FOR ME'--
BUT
I WILL NOT BE MASTERED BY ANYTHING.
13
'Food for the stomach and the stomach for food'--
BUT
GOD WILL DESTROY THEM BOTH.
THE
BODY IS NOT MEANT FOR SEXUAL IMMORALITY,
BUT
FOR THE LORD, AND THE LORD FOR THE BODY.
14
BY HIS POWER GOD RAISED THE LORD FROM THE DEAD,
AND
HE WILL RAISE US ALSO.
15
DO YOU NOT KNOW THAT YOUR BODIES
ARE
MEMBERS OF CHRIST HIMSELF?
SHALL
I THEN TAKE THE MEMBERS OF CHRIST
AND
UNITE THEM WITH A PROSTITUTE?
NEVER!
16
DO YOU NOT KNOW
THAT
HE WHO UNITES HIMSELF WITH A PROSTITUTE
IS
ONE WITH HER IN BODY?
For
it is said,
'The
two will become one flesh.'
17
BUT HE WHO UNITES HIMSELF WITH THE LORD
IS
ONE WITH HIM IN SPIRIT.
18
FLEE FROM SEXUAL IMMORALITY.
ALL
OTHER SINS A MAN COMMITS ARE OUTSIDE HIS BODY,
BUT
HE WHO SINS SEXUALLY SINS AGAINST HIS OWN BODY.
19
DO YOU NOT KNOW
THAT
YOUR BODY IS A TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
WHO
IS IN YOU,
WHOM
YOU HAVE RECEIVED FROM GOD?
20
YOU ARE NOT YOUR OWN;
YOU
WERE BOUGHT AT A PRICE.
THEREFORE
HONOR GOD WITH YOUR BODY.
(1
Corinthians 6)
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