6 If anyone among you all has a case against another believer, how dare they go to a secular court in front of an unbelieving judge instead of to believers. 2 Don’t you realise that in the future, believers will judge the world, and if the world’s going to be judged by all of you, surely you’re competent enough now to judge smaller cases? 3 Don’t you realise that we’ll judge God’s messengers? So surely we can judge things of this life? 4 So then, if you have legal disputes about things of this life, why do you appoint people with no standing in the assembly as judges? 5 I say that to your shame. Don’t you have anyone among you all who can arbitrate between believers? 6 But instead, one believer goes to court against another, and it’s in front of unbelievers!

7 Actually, you’re all disgraced already for having lawsuits among yourselves. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated? 8 But you’re all wronging and cheating others, including fellow believers.

9 Or don’t you all know that those who disobey God won’t inherit his kingdom? Don’t let yourselves be deceived: those who are sexually immoral or idolaters or adulterers, or men who submit to or perform homosexual acts, 10 or thieves or the greedy, or drunkards or slanderers or swindlers, will inherit God’s kingdom. 11 Now some of you all were like that, but now you’ve been washed and declared guiltless, and been declared innocent by the authority of the master Yeshua (Jesus; Grk. Yesus) Messiah, and by our god’s spirit.