Lawsuits among Believers

1Which one of you having a matter dares to go to law with another before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? 2Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? and if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy of the smallest judgments? 3Do you not know that we shall judge angels, not indeed matters of this life? 4Then if indeed you have judgments appertaining to this life, do you sit those down who are little esteemed in the church? 5I speak this to your shame. Is there not one wise man among you who shall be able to judge between his brother? 6But does brother go to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers?

7Indeed it is already altogether a small matter to you, that you have law-suits one with another. Why do you not rather stiffer injustice? why are you not rather defrauded? 8But you inflict injustice, and defraud, and that your brethren.

Members of Christ

9Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? He not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor catamites, nor Sodomites, 10nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor scolds, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. 11And such were some of you: but you have washed, but you have been sanctified, but you have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and by the Spirit of our God.

12All things are lawful to me, but all things are not profitable: all things are lawful, but I will not be brought under the power of any. 13Meats for the stomach, and the stomach for meats: but God will destroy both this and them. The body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body: 14but God both raised up the Lord, and will raise you up through his power. 15Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? then taking the members of Christ, shall I make them the members of a harlot? it could not be so. 16Do you not know that he who is joined to the harlot is one body? for it says, They two shall be one flesh. 17But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.

The Temple of the Holy Spirit
(Romans 12:1–8; 1 Corinthians 3:16–23)

18Fly from fornication. Every sin which a man may commit is outside of his body; the one committing fornication sins against his own body. 19Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? and you are not your own; 20for you have been bought with a price: indeed glorify God in your body.