Lawsuits among Believers

1Dare any of you, having an affair with another, be judged by the unjust, and not by the holy ones? 2Know ye not that the holy ones shall judge the world? and if the world be judged by you, are ye unworthy of the least judgments? 3Know ye not that we shall judge messengers? also not only things pertaining to the cares of life? 4Therefore truly, if ye have judgments pertaining to the cares of life, set them counted as nothing in the church. 5For confusion I speak to you. So is there not one wise with you, who will be able to judge between his brother? 6But brother with brother is judged, and this by the unbelieving.

7Therefore truly, already is there wholly a misfortune in you, that ye have judgments with yourselves. Wherefore had ye not rather be treated ill? wherefore had ye not rather be defrauded? 8But ye treat ill, and defraud, and that the brethren.

Members of Christ

9Or know ye not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God Be ye not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites, 10Nor thieves; nor covetous, nor intoxicated, nor railers, nor rapacious, shall inherit the kingdom of God. 11And these were some of you: but ye were washed, but ye were consecrated, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

12All things are lawful to me, but all are not profitable: all are lawful to me, but I will not be exercised by power under any. 13Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods: and God will also leave unemployed this and them. And the body not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. 14And God also raised up the Lord, and us will he also raise up by his power. 15Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? having taken the members of Christ, shall I make members of a harlot? It may not be. 16Or know ye not that he joined to a harlot is one body? for they shall be, he says, they two into one flesh. 17And he joined to the Lord is one spirit.

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

18Flee fornication. Every sin which if a man do is without the body; but he committing fornication sins against his own body. 19Or know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God, and ye are not your own? 20For ye were bought for a price: then glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are of God.