1: Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go
to law before the unjust, and not before the saints? |
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2: Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if
the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest
matters? |
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3: Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things
that pertain to this life? |
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4: If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life,
set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church. |
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5: I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man
among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?
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6: But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the
unbelievers. |
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7: Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye
go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye
not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded? |
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8: Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.
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9: Know ye 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,
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10: Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor
extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. |
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11: And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are
sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by
the Spirit of our God. |
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12: All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not
expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under
the power of any. |
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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. |
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14: And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up
us by his own power. |
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15: Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall
I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an
harlot? God forbid. |
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16: What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one
body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. |
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17: But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
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18: Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the
body; but he that commiteth fornication sinneth against his own body.
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19: What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy
Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
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20: For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your
body, and in your spirit, which are God's. |