Lawsuits Among Believers

6 When any of you have a dispute against another, do yoʋ dare to go to court before the unrighteous and not before the saints? 2 [fn]Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you not competent to judge trivial cases? 3 Do you not know that we will judge angels, not to mention matters of this life? 4 If then you have disputes about such matters, do you seat as judges those who have no standing in the church? 5 I say this to your shame. Is there [fn]not a wise man among you, not even one, who would be able to decide between a man and his brother, 6 but one brother goes to court against another, and they do so before unbelievers? 7 As it is, to have lawsuits with one another is already a defeat for you. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded? 8 But you yourselves wrong, and you yourselves defraud, and you do [fn]these things to your own brothers!

9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, 10 nor [fn]the greedy, nor thieves, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of [fn]the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.