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[1]Dare any of you, when he hath a controversy with his brother, litigate before the iniquitous, and not before the sanctified?
[2]Or know ye not, that the sanctified will judge the world? And if the world will be judged by you, are ye unfit to decide trivial causes?
[3]Know ye not, that we shall judge angels? How much more things that are of the world?
[4]But if ye have a controversy about a worldly matter, seat ye on the bench for you those who are contemned in the church !
[5]For shame to you I say [it]. So, there is not even one wise man among you, who is competent to do equity between a brother and his brother:
[6]but a brother litigateth with his brother, and also before them that believe not !
[7]Now therefore ye condemn yourselves, in that ye have litigation one with another. For why do ye not rather suffer wrong? why not rather be defrauded?
[8]But ye yourselves commit wrong, and ye defraud even your brethren.
[9]Or do ye not know, that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not mistake; neither whoremongers, nor idol-worshippers, nor adulterers, nor debauchers, nor liers with males,
[10]nor the avaricious, nor thieves, nor drunkards, nor railers, nor extortioners, will inherit the kingdom of God.
[11]And these things have been in some of you: but ye are washed, and are sanctified, and made righteous, in the name of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, and by the Spirit of our God.
[12]Every thing is in my power : but every thing is not profitable to me. Every thing is in my power; but none [of them] shall have dominion over me.
[13]Food is for the belly; and the belly is for food; but God will bring them both to naught. But the body is not for whoredom, but for our Lord; and our Lord for the body.
[14]And God hath raised up our Lord; and he will raise us up, by his power.
[15]Know ye not, that your bodies are the members of the Messiah? Shall one take a member of the Messiah, and make it the member of a harlot? Far be it.
[16]Or know ye not, that whoever joineth himself to a harlot, is one body [with her]? For it is said, They twain shall be one body.
[17]But he that joineth himself to our Lord, is with him one spirit.
[18]Flee whoredom. For every [other] sin which a man committeth, is external to his body; but he that committeth whoredom, sinneth against his own body.
[19]Or know ye not, that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who abideth in you, whom ye have received from God? And ye are not your own.
[20]For ye are bought with a price. Therefore, glorify ye God, with your body, and with your spirit, which are God's.
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