Lawsuits among Believers

1Dare any one of you⁺, having a matter against the other, go to be judged before the unrighteous and not before the saints? 2Or do you⁺ not know that saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you⁺, are you⁺ unworthy of the least of cases? 3Do you⁺ not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of life?

4Therefore indeed, if you⁺ have cases as to the things of life, do you⁺ seat these, the ones being despised in the church? 5I speak to you⁺ for shame. Thus is there no one† wise among you⁺ who will be able to discern in the midst of his brother? 6But brother goes to be judged against brother, and this before unbelievers!

7Therefore indeed, it is already altogether a defeat for you⁺ that you⁺ have lawsuits with one another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded? 8But you⁺ do wrong and defraud, and this to brothers!

Members of Christ

9Or do you⁺ not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be led astray: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, 10nor thieves, nor coveters,† nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. 11And some of you⁺ were these. But you⁺ were washed, but you⁺ were sanctified, but you⁺ were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ† and by the Spirit of our God.

12“All things are lawful to me,” but not all things profit. “All things are lawful to me,” but I will not be mastered by anything. 13“Foods for the belly and the belly for foods,” but God will nullify both this and these. Now the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14And God both raised the Lord, and He will raise us up, through His power.

15Do you⁺ not know that your⁺ bodies are members of Christ? Having taken, then, the members of the Christ, shall I make them members of a prostitute? Never may it be! 16Or do you⁺ not know† that the one being joined to the prostitute is one body? For it says, “The two will be into one flesh.”† 17But the one being joined to the Lord is one spirit.

The Temple of the Holy Spirit
(Romans 12:1–8; 1 Corinthians 3:16–23)

18Flee the sexual immorality. Every sin, whatever a man might do, is outside the body, but the one committing sexual immorality sins against his own body. 19Or do you⁺ not 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.†

Footnotes:

5 BYZ and TR no even one
10 BYZ nor coveters, nor theives
11 BYZ and TR the Lord Jesus; TH and WH our Lord Jesus Christ
16 RP Do you not know
16 Genesis 2:24 (see also LXX)
20 BYZ and TR include and with your spirit, which belong to God.