1 Corinthians 6:1–10

Lawsuits Discouraged

1 Does any one of you, when he has a 1case against his neighbor, dare to go to law before the unrighteous and anot before the 2saints?

2 Or ado you not know that bthe 1saints will judge cthe world? If the world is judged by you, are you not competent to 2constitute the smallest law courts?

3 aDo you not know that we will judge angels? How much more matters of this life?

4 So if you have law courts dealing with matters of this life, 1do you appoint them as judges who are of no account in the church?

5 aI say this to your shame. Is it so, that there is not among you one wise man who will be able to decide between his bbrethren,

6 but brother goes to law with brother, and that before aunbelievers?

7 Actually, then, it is already a defeat for you, that you have lawsuits with one another. aWhy not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

8 On the contrary, you yourselves wrong and defraud. You do this even to your abrethren.

9 Or ado you not know that the unrighteous will not binherit the kingdom of God? cDo not be deceived; dneither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor 1effeminate, nor homosexuals,

10 nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will ainherit the kingdom of God.