1 Corinthians 6:1-11 - Lawsuits Between Believers

¹ When one of you has a grievance against his neighbor, does he dare to go to law before a heathen court, instead of laying the case before God's people? ² Do you not know that God's people are to judge the world? And if the world is to be judged before you, are you unfit to try such petty cases? ³ Do you not know that we Christians are to sit in judgment on angels, to say nothing of the ordinary cases of life? ⁴ So if you have the ordinary cases of life for settlement, do you set up as judges the very men in the church who have no standing? ⁵ I ask this to make you blush with shame. Has it come to this, that there is not a single wise man among you who could settle a grievance of one brother against another, ⁶ but one brother has to go to law with another, and that before unbelieving judges?

⁷ To say no more, it is a mark of moral failure among you to have lawsuits at all with one another. Why not rather suffer being wronged? Why not suffer being robbed? ⁸ On the contrary, you practice wronging and robbing others, and that your brothers. ⁹ Do you not know that wrongdoers will not have a share in the kingdom of God? Stop being misled; people who are sexually immoral or idolaters or adulterers or sensual or guilty of unnatural sexual vice ¹⁰ or thieves or greedy graspers for more or drunkards or slanderers or swindlers will not have a share in the kingdom of God. ¹¹ And these are just the characters some of you used to be. But now you have washed yourselves clean, you have been consecrated, you are now in right standing with God, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of God.