Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to court before the unrighteous, and not before the holy ones?
Or do you not know that the holy ones will judge and administer the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you incompetent to judge the trivial cases?
Do you not know that we will judge and administer angels? How much more, then, things that pertain to this life?
If then you have to judge things pertaining to this life, do you set them to judge who have no standing in the church?
I say this to move you to shame. What, is there not able to be found among you one wise person who will be able to decide between his brothers?
But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers!
Actually, then, it is in general a loss for you that you have lawsuits among yourselves. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?
But to the contrary, you yourselves do wrong and defraud, and that to your brothers!
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor passive homosexual partners, nor homosexuals,
nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor the verbally abusive, nor swindlers, will inherit the Kingdom of God.
And such were some of you, but you were washed, but you were made holy, but you were declared righteous in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and by the spirit of our God.
Flee Sexual Immorality
“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are beneficial. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be mastered by anything.
“Food for the belly and the belly for food,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. Now the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
And God raised the Lord, and will also raise us up through his power.
Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? So should I take away the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Absolutely not!
Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For the two, it says, will become one flesh.
But whoever is joined to the Lord is one spirit.
Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a person does is outside the body, but whoever commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
Or do you not know that your body is a sanctuary of the holy spirit that is in you, which you have from God, and you are not your own?
For you were bought with a price, therefore glorify God in your body.