1 Corinthians 6:1-11 - Lawsuits Between Believers

¹ If one of you has a grievance against an opponent, does he dare to go to law before irreligious men and not before God's people? ² Do you not know that God's people will sit in judgement upon the world? And if you are the court before which the world is to be judged, are you unfit to deal with these petty matters? ³ Do you not know that we are to sit in judgement upon angels--to say nothing of things belonging to this life? ⁴ If therefore you have things belonging to this life which need to be decided, is it men who are absolutely nothing in the Church--is it *they* whom you make your judges? ⁵ I say this to put you to shame. Has it come to this, that there does not exist among you a single wise man competent to decide between a man and his brother, ⁶ but brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers?

⁷ To say no more, then, it is altogether a defect in you that you have law-suits with one another. Why not rather endure injustice? Why not rather submit to being defrauded? ⁸ On the contrary you yourselves inflict injustice and fraud, and upon brethren too. ⁹ Do you not know that unrighteous men will not inherit God's Kingdom? Cherish no delusion here. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor any who are guilty of unnatural crime, ¹⁰ nor theives, nor avaricious people, nor any who are addicted to hard drinking, to abusive language or to greed of gain, will inherit God's Kingdom. ¹¹ And all this describes what some of you were. But now you have had every stain washed off: now you have been set apart as holy: now you have been pronounced free from guilt; in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and through the Spirit of our God.