1 Corinthians 6:1-11 - Lawsuits Between Believers

¹ DARE any of you, having a matter of controversy with another, sue for judgment before the unjust, and not before the saints? ² Know ye not that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to be judges in the smallest matters? ³ Know ye not that we shall judge angels, much more things pertaining to this life? ⁴ If then ye have disputes about the things of this life, do you seat those on the bench who are least esteemed in the church? ⁵ I speak to you to shame you. Is it so, that there is not among you a wise man? Not so much as one who is able to judge between one brother and another? ⁶ But brother goes to law with brother, and this before the unbelievers.

⁷ Now verily therefore there is altogether a fault among you, because ye have law-suits one with another. Why do ye not rather submit to the wrong? Why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded? ⁸ But ye do wrong and defraud, and that the brethren. ⁹ Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites, ¹⁰ nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. ¹¹ Yet such were some of you: but ye have been washed, but ye have been sanctified, but ye have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the spirit of our God.