Chapter 6

Dare any of you, having a matter against another, bring your case to be judged before the unjust and not before the saints?

Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world will be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matter?

Do you not know that we shall judge angels? How much more worldly things!

If, therefore, you have cases about worldly matters to be judged, appoint those who are rated as nothing in the Church to judge.

To shame you I say it. Can it be that there is not one wise man among you competent to settle a case in his brother's matter?

But brother goes to law with brother and that before unbelievers.

Nay, to begin with, it is altogether a defect in you that you have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded?

But you yourselves do wrong and defraud, and that to your brethren.

Or do you not know that the unjust will not possess the kingdom of God? Do not err; neither fornicators, nor idolators, nor adulterers,

nor the effeminate, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor the evil-tongued, nor the greedy will possess the kingdom of God.

And such were some of you, but you have been washed, you have been sanctified, you have been justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God. Sacredness of the Body

All things are lawful for me, but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of anyone.

Food for the belly and the belly for food, but God will destroy both the one and the other. Now the body is not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

Now God has raised up the Lord and will also raise us up by his power.

Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot? By no means!

Or do you not know that he who cleaves to a harlot, becomes one body with her? "For the two," it says, "shall be one flesh."

But he who cleaves to the Lord is one spirit with him.

Flee immorality. Every sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.

Or do you not know that your members are the temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?

For you have been bought at a great price. Glorify God and bear him in your body.