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[1] Dar any of you that hath a cause ayens another, be demed at wickid men, and not at hooli men?
[2] Whether ye witen not, that seyntis schulen deme of this world? And if the world schal be demed bi you, be ye vnworthi to deme of the leste thingis?
[3] Witen ye not, that we schulen deme aungels? hou myche more worldli thingis?
[4] Therfor if ye han worldli domes, ordeyne ye tho contemptible men, that ben in the chirche, to deme.
[5] Y seie to make you aschamed. So ther is not ony wise man, that may deme bitwixe a brothir and his brothir;
[6] but a brothir with brothir stryueth in dom, and that among vnfeithful men.
[7] And now trespas is algatis in you, for ye han domes among you. Whi rather take ye no wrong? whi rather suffre ye not disseit?
[8] But and ye doen wrong, and doen fraude, and that to britheren.
[9] Whether ye witen not, that wickid men schulen not welde the kyngdom of God? Nyle ye erre; nethir letchours, nether men that seruen mawmetis, nether auouteris,
[10] nether letchouris ayen kynde, nether thei that doon letcheri with men, nether theues, nether auerouse men, nethir `ful of drunkenesse, nether curseris, nether rauenours, schulen welde the kyngdom of God.
[11] And ye weren sum tyme these thingis; but ye ben waischun, but ye ben halewid, but ye ben iustefied in the name of oure Lord Jhesu Crist, and in the spirit of oure God.
[12] Alle thingis ben leeueful to me, but not alle thingis ben spedeful. Alle thingis ben leeueful to me, but Y schal not be brouyt doun vndur ony mannus power.
[13] Mete to the wombe, and the wombe to metis; and God schal distruye bothe this and that. And the bodi not to fornycacioun, but to the Lord, and the Lord to the bodi.
[14] For God reiside the Lord, and schal reise vs bi his vertu.
[15] Witen ye not, that youre bodies ben membris of Crist? Schal Y thanne take the membris of Crist, and schal Y make the membris of an hoore? God forbede.
[16] Whether ye witen not, that he that cleueth to an hoore, is maad o bodi? For he seith, Ther schulen be tweyne in o fleisch.
[17] And he that cleueth to the Lord, is o spirit.
[18] Fle ye fornycacioun; al synne what euere synne a man doith, is with out the bodi; but he that doith fornycacioun, synneth ayens his bodi.
[19] Whether ye witen not, that youre membris ben the temple of the Hooli Goost, that is in you, whom ye han of God, and ye ben not youre owne?
[20] For ye ben bouyt with greet prijs. Glorifie ye, and bere ye God in youre bodi.
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