1 Corinthians 6:1–11

Lawsuits among Believers

⁶When any of you has a grievance against another, do you dare to take it to court before the unrighteous, instead of taking it before the saints? ²Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases?^{* 3}Do you not know that we are to judge angels, to say nothing of ordinary matters? ⁴If you have ordinary cases, then, do you appoint as judges those who have no standing in the church? ⁵I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no one person wise enough to decide between brothers and sisters? ⁶Instead, brothers and sisters go to court against one another, and this before the unbelievers.^*

⁷In fact, to have lawsuits at all with one another is already a defeat for you. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?^{* 8}But you yourselves wrong and defraud—and brothers and sisters at that.

⁹Do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! The sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes,^t men who engage in illicit sex,^{u* 10}thieves, the greedy, drunkards, revilers, swindlers—none of these will inherit the kingdom of God. ¹¹And this is what some of you used to be. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ^v and in the Spirit of our God.^*