1 Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law 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 Know you not that we shall rule over angels with the power of giving judicial decisions? How much more things that pertain to this life?
4 If then you 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 who shall be able to judge between his brothers?
6 But brother goes to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.
7 Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because you go to law one with another. Why do you not rather take wrong? Why do you not rather allow yourselves to be defrauded?
8 no, you do wrong, and defraud, and that your brothers.
9 Know you 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 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 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 has both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.
15 Don't you 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? Don't you know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For He says the two shall be into one flesh.
17 But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.
18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a person does is outside the body, but those who commit fornication wander from the path into their own bodies.
19 What? Don't you know that your body is the Temple of the Holy Ghost Who is in you, Who you have of 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.