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Dareth any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust and not before the saints?
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What! know ye not that the saints shall judge the world?
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And if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy of the least judgments? Know ye not that we shall judge angels? much more things of this life.
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If then ye have judgments in things of this life, set up those who are of no esteem in the assembly.
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I speak to your shame. Thus, there is not among you one wise [man] who shall be able to decide among brethren!
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But brother goeth to law with brother, and this before unbelievers.
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Already therefore it is altogether a fault in you that ye go to law among yourselves. Why are ye not rather wronged? why are ye not rather defrauded?
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But ye do wrong and defraud, and this brethren.
9
What! know ye not that unjust [men] shall not inherit God’s kingdom? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor abusers of themselves as women, nor abusers of themselves with men,
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nor rapacious, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit God’s kingdom.
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And these things were some of you. But ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus [Christ] and by the Spirit of our God.
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All things are lawful to me, but not all things profit; all things are lawful to me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
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Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats, but God will bring to nought both it and them; but the body [is] not for fornication but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
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And God both raised the Lord, and will raise up us by his power.
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Know ye not, that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then, taking the members of Christ, make [them] members of a harlot? Let it not be.
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What! know ye not that he that is joined to the harlot is one body? For, saith he, the two [shall be] one flesh.
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But he that is joined to the Lord is one spirit.
18
Flee fornication. Every sin whatsoever that a man may Practice is outside the body, but the fornicator sinneth against his own body.
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What! know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit that [is] in you, and that ye are not your own?
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For ye were bought with a price: do then glorify God in your body.