1 Corinthians 6:1-11 - Lawsuits Between Believers

¹ Dare any of you, having a matter of complaint against another, try it before the unjust, and not before the saints? ² Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy of judging the smallest controversies? ³ Know ye not that we shall judge angels? what! and not worthy of judging the affairs of this life? ⁴ Therefore if ye have controversies about the things of this life, do ye set them to judge, who are despised by the church? ⁵ I speak it to your shame. What! is there not one wise man among you, that is able to judge between his bretheren? ⁶ But one brother goeth to law with another, and this before infidels.

⁷ Now there is certainly a fault among you, that ye have law-suits with one another: why do ye not rather endure wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded? ⁸ But ye do wrong and defraud, and that even your brethren. ⁹ What! know ye not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor sodomites, ¹⁰ nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor rapacious persons, shall inherit the kingdom of God. ¹¹ And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the spirit of our God.