Or don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the trivial cases?
So if you have such matters, do you appoint as your judges those who have no standing in the church?
I say this to your shame! Can it be that there is not one wise person among you who is able to arbitrate between fellow believers?
As it is, to have legal disputes against one another is already a defeat for you. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?
Instead, you yourselves do wrong and cheat — and you do this to brothers and sisters!
no thieves, greedy people, drunkards, verbally abusive people, or swindlers will inherit God’s kingdom.
And some of you used to be like this. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
“Everything is permissible for me,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible for me,” but I will not be mastered by anything.
“Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food,” and God will do away with both of them. However, the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
Don’t you know that your bodies are a part of Christ’s body? So should I take a part of Christ’s body and make it part of a prostitute? Absolutely not!
Don’t you know that anyone joined to a prostitute is one body with her? For Scripture says, The two will become one flesh.
Don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
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