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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1If any of you has a legal dispute against another, do you dare go to court before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Or don't you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest cases? |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Don't you know that we will judge angels--not to mention ordinary matters? |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4So if you have cases pertaining to this life, do you select those who have no standing in the church to judge? |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5I say this to your shame! Can it be that there is not one wise person among you who is able to arbitrate between his brothers? |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Instead, believer goes to court against believer, and that before unbelievers! |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Therefore, to have legal disputes against one another is already a moral failure for you. Why not rather put up with injustice? Why not rather be cheated? |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Instead, you act unjustly and cheat--and you do this to believers! |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Don't you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God's kingdom? Do not be deceived: No sexually immoral people, idolaters, adulterers, or anyone practicing homosexuality, |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10no thieves, greedy people, drunkards, verbally abusive people, or swindlers will inherit God's kingdom. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11And some of you used to be like this. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God." |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Everything is permissible for me," but not everything is helpful. "Everything is permissible for me," but I will not be brought under the control of anything. " |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Food for the stomach and the stomach for food," but God will do away with both of them. The body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14God raised up the Lord and will also raise us up by His power. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Don't you know that your bodies are a part of Christ's body? So should I take a part of Christ's body and make it part of a prostitute? Absolutely not! |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Don't you know that anyone joined to a prostitute is one body with her? For Scripture says, The two will become one flesh. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17But anyone joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Run from sexual immorality! "Every sin a person can commit is outside the body." On the contrary, the person who is sexually immoral sins against his own body. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Don't you know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20for you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God in your body. |
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