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1 Corinthians 6:1-11

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1 How is it, that if any one of you has a cause at law against another, he takes it before a Gentile judge and not before the saints?
1 If any of you has a dispute with another, do you dare to take it before the ungodly for judgment instead of before the Lord’s people?
2 Is it not certain that the saints will be the judges of the world? if then the world will be judged by you, are you unable to give a decision about the smallest things?
2 Or do you not know that the Lord’s people will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases?
3 Is it not certain that we are to be the judges of angels? how much more then of the things of this life?
3 Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life!
4 If then there are questions to be judged in connection with the things of this life, why do you put them in the hands of those who have no position in the church?
4 Therefore, if you have disputes about such matters, do you ask for a ruling from those whose way of life is scorned in the church?
5 I say this to put you to shame. Is there not among you one wise man who may be able to give a decision between his brothers?
5 I say this to shame you. Is it possible that there is nobody among you wise enough to judge a dispute between believers?
6 But a brother who has a cause at law against another takes it before Gentile judges.
6 But instead, one brother takes another to court—and this in front of unbelievers!
7 More than this, it is not to your credit to have causes at law with one another at all. Why not put up with wrong? why not undergo loss?
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 So far from doing this, you yourselves do wrong and take your brothers' property.
8 Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, and you do this to your brothers and sisters.
9 Have you not knowledge that evil-doers will have no part in the kingdom of God? Have no false ideas about this: no one who goes after the desires of the flesh, or gives worship to images, or is untrue when married, or is less than a man, or makes a wrong use of men,
9 Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men
10 Or is a thief, or the worse for drink, or makes use of strong language, or takes by force what is not his, will have any part in the kingdom of God.
10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
11 And such were some of you; but you have been washed, you have been made holy, you have been given righteousness in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our 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.
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