6Verse 1How can anyone of you who has a dispute with another dare to have it judged before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?Verse 2Do you not know that the saints are to be judging the world?+So if the world is to be judged by you, are you not competent to judge the smallest matters?Verse 3Do you not know that we will judge angels?+How much more the things of this life!+Verse 4Therefore, if you have disputes about such matters, appoint those who are least esteemed in the congregation to judge!+Verse 5I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is not a single wise man among you who would be competent to judge between a man and his brother?Verse 6Instead, brother goes to law against brother, and this before unbelievers!Verse 7Actually, the very fact that you have lawsuits among you already represents a defeat for you.+Why do you not rather accept wrong? Why not rather accept being cheated?Verse 8No, you yourselves do the wronging and cheating, and to brothers!
How to avoid inheriting the Kingdom
Verse 9Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers,+nor catamites,+nor sodomites,Verse 10nor the greedy, nor thieves, nor drunkards, nor the abusive, nor swindlers can inherit the Kingdom of God, absolutely.Verse 11And that is what some of you were;+but you were bathed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.+
Fornication is bad!
Verse 12All things are ‘permissible’ for me, but not all things are expedient. All things are ‘permissible’ for me, but I will not be mastered by anything.Verse 13Foods for the stomach and the stomach for foods, but God will destroy both it and them.+Now the body is not for fornication but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.+Verse 14Further, God both raised up the Lord and will also raise up us by His power.Verse 15Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Not ever!Verse 16Can you not know that the one who joins himself with a prostitute is one body with her? For “the two,” He says, “will become one flesh.”+Verse 17But he who is joined with the Lord is one spirit with Him.Verse 18Flee from fornication! Every sin that a man may commit is outside the body, but he who fornicates sins against his own body.+Verse 19Do you not know that your+bodies are a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?Verse 20Because you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.+