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1 Corinthians

How dare any of you who has a dispute with another go to court before the unrighteous and not before the saints! Do you not understand that the saints are going to govern and manage the world? If you are going to manage the world, are you not able to judge less important matters? Do you not understand that we will be judging angels? Then why not matters related to this present life! So if you have such disputes, do you take them to people who have no standing in the church? I say this to shame you. Is there no one among you wise enough to decide between fellow believers? Instead does a believer sue a believer, and before unbelievers? Actually it is already a defeat for you that you have lawsuits with each other. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather allow yourself to be defrauded? No, but you yourselves do wrong and defraud, even to your fellow believers. Do you not understand that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor greedy, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor swindlers will inherit the Kingdom of God. Some of you were such people, but you were washed; you were made holy; you were made right in the name of the lord Jesus Messiah and in the spirit of our God. “All things are lawful for me” — but not everything is helpful. “All things are lawful for me” — but I will not be controlled by anything. “Food is for the stomach, and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both of them.” The body is not meant for sexual immorality but for the lord, and the lord for the body. God not only has resurrected the lord, but also will resurrect us by His power. Do you not understand that your bodies are members of the Messiah? Should I take the members of the Messiah and make them members of a prostitute? Absolutely not! Or do you not understand that a person who joins himself to a prostitute becomes “one body” with her? For He says, “The two will become one flesh.” But the one who joins himself to the lord becomes one spirit with him. Avoid all sexual immorality. All other sins which people commit are outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. Or do you not understand that your body is a temple of the holy spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, because you have been bought with a price. So glorify God with your body.

1 Corinthians