¹ Does anyone of you°, having a legal matter toward the other, dare to have a lawsuit in front of the unrighteous and not in front of the holy-ones?

² Do you° not know that the holy-ones will be judging the world? And if the world is judged among you°, are you° unworthy of the least of courts?

³ Do you° not know that we will be judging the messengers? Yet, why not judge things of everyday life?

⁴ Therefore, if you° indeed have courts concerning things of everyday life, why are you° seating these who have been scorned in the congregation$ as judges?

⁵ I am saying this to shame you°. So is there not one wise person among you°? Not even one who will be able to judge between his brethren?

⁶ But brother is in a lawsuit with brother, and this in front of unbelieving people!

⁷ Therefore, it is indeed already a literal failure to you°, that you° have lawsuits with yourselves. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

⁸ But instead you° are wronging and are defrauding, and you° do these things to brethren. {Paul addresses a common practice among the Greek elites at that time, to keep a teenager lover in addition to your spouse.}

⁹ Or do you° not know that the unrighteous will not be inheriting the kingdom of God? Do° not be misled. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor pedophiles, nor homosexuals,

¹⁰ nor the greedy ones, nor thieves, nor drunkards, not revilers, not ravening ones, will be inheriting the kingdom of God. {Gal 5:19-21}

¹¹ And some of you° were these, but you° yourselves were fully-washed, but you° were made holy, but you° were made righteous in the name of the Lord Jesus and in the Spirit of our God.

¹² All things are legal for me, but not all things are advantageous. All things are legal for me, but I will not be brought-under the authority by anything.

¹³ The foods are for the belly and the belly is for the foods, but God will be doing-away-with both this and these things. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

¹⁴ Now God both raised up the Lord and will be raising us up through his power.

¹⁵ Do you° not know that your° bodies are members of Christ? Therefore, after I took the members of the Christ, should I make$ them members of a prostitute? Let it not happen!

¹⁶ Do you° not know that he who is joined to the prostitute is one body? For$ he says, The two will be one flesh. {Gen 2:24}

¹⁷ But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.

¹⁸ Flee° fornication. Every sin, whatever a man may do$, is outside the body, but the one fornicating, sins at his own body.

¹⁹ Or do you° not know that your° body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you°, whom you° have from God? And you° are not your° own,

²⁰ for$ you° were bought as one of value. Glorify° God in your° body and in your° spirit which are God’s!