1. Do any of you dare, having a matter against another, to go to court 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. Do you not know that we shall judge angels? How much more things that concern this life?
4. If then you have to make decisions about things concerning this life, appoint those 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 goes to court with brother, and that before the unbelievers.
7. Now therefore there is surely a fault among you, because you go to court with one another. Why do you not rather suffer wrong? Why do you not rather allow yourselves to be taken advantage of?
8. No, you do wrong, and injure, and do so to your fellow believers.
9. Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be 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 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 helpful: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
13. Foods are for the belly, and the belly for foods: 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 us up by his own power.
15. Do you not know that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of a harlot? God forbid.
16. What? Do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For two, says 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 outside the body; but he that commits fornication sins against his own body.
19. What? Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from 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.