Saints should not go to law -- The unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God -- Our bodies are the members of Christ, and temples of the Holy Ghost -- They must not be defiled.

¹⁾Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law 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 to judge the smallest matters?

³⁾Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?

⁴⁾If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.

⁵⁾I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?

⁶⁾But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.

⁷⁾Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do you not rather take wrong? Why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?

⁸⁾Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.

⁹⁾Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolators, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

¹⁰⁾Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, 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.

¹²⁾All these things are not lawful unto me, and all these things are not expedient. All things are not lawful for me, therefore I will not be brought under the power of any.

¹³⁾Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats; but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

¹⁴⁾And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.

¹⁵⁾Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of a harlot? God forbid.

¹⁶⁾What! know ye not that he which is joined to a harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

¹⁷⁾But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

¹⁸⁾Flee fornication. Every sin that a man committeth is against the body of Christ, and he who committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

¹⁹⁾What! know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

²⁰⁾For ye are bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.