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Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?

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Or know ye not that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

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

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If then ye have to judge things pertaining to this life, do ye set them to judge who are of no account in the church?

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I say [this] to move you to shame. What, cannot there be [found] among you one wise man who shall be able to decide between his brethren,

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but brother goeth to law with brother, and that before unbelievers?

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Nay, already it is altogether a defect in you, that ye have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather take wrong? why not rather be defrauded?

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Nay, but ye yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that [your] brethren.

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Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men,

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nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

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And such were some of you: but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.