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Does any one of you, when he has a ^(F1)case against ^(F2)his neighbor, dare to go to law before the unrighteous and ^(C1)not before the ^(F3)saints?

Or ^(C1)do you not know that ^(C2)the ^(F1)saints will judge ^(C3)the world? If the world is judged by you, are you not competent to form the smallest ^(F2)law courts?

^(C1)Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more matters of this life?

So if you have law courts dealing with matters of this life, ^(F1)do you appoint them as judges who are of no account in the church?

^(C1)I say this to your shame. Is it so, that there is not among you anyone wise who will be able to decide between his ^(C2)brothers and sisters,

but brother goes to law with brother, and that before ^(C1)unbelievers?

Actually, then, it is already a defeat for you, that you have lawsuits with one another. ^(C1)Why not rather suffer the wrong? Why not rather be defrauded?

On the contrary, you yourselves do wrong and defraud. And this to your ^(C1)brothers and sisters!

Or ^(C1)do you not know that the unrighteous will not ^(C2)inherit the kingdom of God? ^(C3)Do not be deceived; ^(C4)neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor ^(F1)homosexuals,

nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor those habitually drunk, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will ^(C1)inherit the kingdom of God.

^(C1)Such were some of you; but you were ^(C2)washed, but you were ^(C3)sanctified, but you were ^(C4)justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and ^(F1)in the Spirit of our God.