1 Does any of you, having a dispute with another, dare to go to court before the unrighteous rather than before the saints? 2 Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unfit to judge the smallest matters? 3 Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the matters of this life! 4 So if you have cases concerning this life, do you appoint as judges those who have no standing in the church? 5 I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is not even one wise person among you who can decide between brothers, 6 but brother goes to court against brother, and that before unbelievers? 7 The very fact that you have lawsuits among yourselves is already a defeat for you. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded? 8 But you yourselves do wrong and defraud, and you do this to brothers!

9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who take the passive role in sex with men, nor men who have sex with men, 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

12 All things are lawful for me, but not all things are beneficial. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be mastered by anything. 13 Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food, but God will do away with both. The body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14 And God raised the Lord and will also raise us by his power. 15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? By no means! 16 Or do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For it says, “The two will become one flesh.” 17 But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with him. 18 Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a person commits is outside the body, but the one who practices sexual immorality sins against his own body. 19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? And you are not your own, 20 for you were bought at a price. So glorify God in your body.