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1 Does any one of you, when he has a case against his neighbor, dare to go to law before the unrighteous and not before the saints ?
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1 If any of you has a dispute with another, dare he take it before the ungodly for judgment instead of before the saints?
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2 Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world ? If the world is judged by you, are you not competent to constitute the smallest law courts ?
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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?
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3 Do you not know that we will judge angels ? How much more matters of this life ?
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3 Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life!
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4 So if you have law courts dealing with matters of this life, do you appoint them as judges who are of no account in the church ?
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4 Therefore, if you have disputes about such matters, appoint as judges even men of little account in the church!
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5 I say this to your shame. Is it so, that there is not among you one wise man who will be able to decide between his brethren,
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5 I say this to shame you. Is it possible that there is nobody among you wise enough to judge a dispute between believers?
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6 but brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers ?
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6 But instead, one brother goes to law against another--and this in front of unbelievers!
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7 Actually, then, it is already a defeat for you, that you have lawsuits with one another. Why not rather be wronged ? Why not rather be defrauded ?
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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?
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8 On the contrary, you yourselves wrong and defraud. You do this even to your brethren.
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8 Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, and you do this to your brothers.
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