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[1] Dare any of you, having business against another, be judged under the unjust, and not under the Saints?
[2] Do ye not know, that the Saints shall judge the world? If the world then shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
[3] Know ye not that we shall judge the Angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?
[4] If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set up them which are least esteemed in the Church.
[5] I speak it to your shame. Is it so that there is not a wise man among you? no not one, that can judge between his brethren?
[6] But a brother goeth to law with a brother, and that under the infidels.
[7] Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another: why rather suffer ye not wrong? why rather sustain ye not harm?
[8] Nay, ye yourselves do wrong, and do harm, and that to your brethren.
[9] Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor wantons, nor buggerers,
[10] Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor railers, nor extortioners shall inherit the kingdom of God.
[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.
[12] All things are lawful unto me: but all things are not profitable. I may do all things, but I will not be brought under the power of any thing.
[13] Meats are ordained for the belly, and the belly for the 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.
[14] And God hath also raised up the Lord, and shall raise us up by his power.
[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.
[16] Do ye not know, that he which coupleth himself with an harlot, is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
[17] But he that is joined unto the Lord, is one spirit.
[18] Flee fornication: every sin that a man doeth, is without the body: but he that committeth fornication, sinneth against his own body.
[19] Know ye not, that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, whom ye have of God? And ye are not your own.
[20] For ye are bought for a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit: for they are God's.
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