| 1 | Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints? |
| 2 | Do ye not 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 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 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.
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