1 Corinthians 6:1-11 - Lawsuits Between Believers

¹ When any of you has a grievance against his neighbour, do you dare to go to law in a sinful pagan court, instead of laying the case before the saints? ² Do you not know the saints are to manage the world? If the world is to come under your jurisdiction, are you incompetent to adjudicate upon trifles? ³ Do you not know we are to manage angels, let alone mundane issues? ⁴ And yet, when you have mundane issues to settle, you refer them to the judgment of men who from the point of view of the church are of no account! ⁵ I say this to put you to shame. Has it come to this, that there is not a single wise man among you who could decide a dispute between members of the brotherhood, ⁶ instead of one brother going to law with another ??and before unbelievers too!

⁷ Even to have law-suits with one another is in itself evidence of defeat. Why not rather let yourselves be wronged? Why not rather let yourselves be defrauded? ⁸ But instead of that you inflict wrong and practise frauds ??and that upon members of the brotherhood! ⁹ What! do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the Realm of God? Make no mistake about it; neither the immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor catamites nor sodomites ¹⁰ nor thieves nor the lustful nor the drunken nor the abusive nor robbers will inherit the Realm of God. ¹¹ Some of you were once like that; but you washed yourselves clean, you were consecrated, you were justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.