¹Dare anyone of you, having a matter against the other, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the holy ones?

²Or surely you know that the holy ones will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you unworthy of the smallest cases?

³Surely you know that we will judge messengers? Surely not ever even the things of this life?

⁴Things of this life indeed, so, as to judgment, if you shall have, the ones despised in the assembly, those you set up!

⁵To your shame I say this. Thus is there not among you anyone wise, who will be able to decide in between his brother?

⁶Instead, brother goes to law against brother, and this before unbelievers!

⁷Therefore already indeed altogether it is a defeat in you, for you have lawsuits among yourselves. Because of why surely rather suffer wrong? Because of why surely rather be defrauded?

⁸But you yourselves do wrong and defraud, and this thing to brothers!

⁹Or surely you know that the unrighteous ones will not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor effeminate nor homosexuals,

¹⁰nor thieves nor coveters, not drunkards nor revilers nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.

¹¹And such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of our Lord Jesus the Anointed One and by the Spirit of our God.

¹²But all things are lawful to me, not all things do profit; but all things are lawful to me, I myself will not be mastered by anything.

¹³The foods for the belly, and the belly for the foods; but God will destroy both this and these. And the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

¹⁴and God both has raised up the Lord and will raise us out through his power.

¹⁵Surely you know that your bodies are members of the Anointed One? Then having taken the members of the Anointed One, shall I make them members of a prostitute? Never would it be!

¹⁶Or surely you know that who is being joined to the prostitute is one body? For the two, it says, will become into one flesh;

¹⁷But the one being joined to the Lord is one spirit.

¹⁸Flee the sexual immorality. Every sin whatever, if a man shall do, is outside the body; but the one sinning sexually sins against their own body.

¹⁹Or surely you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit in you, whom you have from God? And you are not your own?

²⁰For you were bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which is of God.