1 Corinthians 6:1–11

Lawsuits Discouraged

¹Does 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?

²Or ^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?

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

⁴So 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?

^5aI 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,

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

⁷Actually, 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?

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

⁹Or ^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,

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

^11aSuch were some of you; but you were ^bwashed, but you were ^csanctified, but you were ^djustified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.