4. So if you have cases pertaining to this life, do you select those who have no standing in the church to judge?
5. I say this to your shame! Can it be that there is not one wise person among you who is able to arbitrate between his brothers?
6. Instead, believer goes to court against believer, and that before unbelievers!
7. Therefore, to have legal disputes against one another is already a moral failure for you. Why not rather put up with injustice? Why not rather be cheated?
8. Instead, you act unjustly and cheat — and you do this to believers!
9. Don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s kingdom? Do not be deceived: No sexually immoral people, idolaters, adulterers, or anyone practicing homosexuality,
10. no thieves, greedy people, drunkards, verbally abusive people, or swindlers will inherit God’s kingdom.
11. And some of you used to be like this. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
12. “Everything is permissible for me,” but not everything is helpful. “Everything is permissible for me,” but I will not be brought under the control of anything.