1 Corinthians 6:1-11 - Lawsuits Between Believers

¹ Can it be that, when one of you has a dispute with another, he dares to have his case tried before the heathen, instead of before Christ's People? ² Do not you know that Christ's People will try the world? And if the world is to be tried by you, are you unfit to try the most trivial cases? ³ Do not you know that we are to try angels-to say nothing of the affairs of this life? ⁴ Why, then, if you have cases relating to the affairs of this life, do you set to try them men who carry no weight with the Church? To your shame I ask it. ⁵ Can it be that there is not one man among you wise enough to decide between two of his Brothers? ⁶ Must Brother go to law with Brother, and that, too, before unbelievers?

⁷ To begin with, it is undoubtedly a loss to you to have lawsuits with one another. Why not rather let yourselves be wronged? Why not rather let yourselves be cheated? ⁸ Instead of this, you wrong and cheat others yourselves-yes, even your Brothers! ⁹ Do not you know that wrong-doers will have no share in God's Kingdom? Do not be deceived. No one who is immoral, or an idolater, or an adulterer, or licentious, or a sodomite, ¹⁰ Or a thief, or covetous, or a drunkard, or abusive, or grasping, will have any share in God's Kingdom. ¹¹ Such some of you used to be; but you washed yourselves clean. You became Christ's People! you were pronounced righteous through the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and through the Spirit of our God!