1 Durf iemand van julle wat 'n saak teen 'n ander het, gaan reg soek voor die onregverdiges en nie voor die heiliges nie?

2 Weet julle nie dat die heiliges die wêreld sal oordeel nie? En as die wêreld deur julle geoordeel word, is julle dan onbevoeg vir die geringste regsake?

3 Weet julle nie dat ons engele sal oordeel nie, hoeveel te meer die alledaagse dinge?

4 As julle dan alledaagse regsake het, moet julle die persone daaroor laat sit wat in die gemeente die minste geag word.

5 Ek sê dit tot julle beskaming. Is daar dan nie eens een wyse onder julle, wat uitspraak sal kan doen tussen sy broeders nie?

6 Maar gaan die een broeder met die ander na die regbank, en dit voor ongelowiges?

7 Dan is dit al werklik 'n gebrek onder julle, dat julle regsake met mekaar het. Waarom ly julle nie liewer onreg nie? Waarom laat julle jul nie liewer berowe nie?

8 Maar julle doen onreg en pleeg roof, en dit aan broeders.

9 Of weet julle nie dat die onregverdiges die koninkryk van God nie sal beërwe nie?

10 Moenie dwaal nie! Geen hoereerders of afgodedienaars of egbrekers of wellustelinge of sodomiete of diewe of gierigaards of dronkaards of kwaadsprekers of rowers sal die koninkryk van God beërwe nie.

11 En dit was sommige van julle; maar julle het jul laat afwas, maar julle is geheilig, maar julle is geregverdig in die Naam van die Here Jesus en deur die Gees van onse God.

12 Alles is my geoorloof, maar nie alles is nuttig nie; alles is my geoorloof, maar ek sal my nie deur iets laat oorheers nie.

13 Die voedsel is vir die maag, en die maag is vir die voedsel, maar God sal die een sowel as die ander tot niet maak. En die liggaam is nie vir hoerery nie, maar vir die Here; en die Here vir die liggaam.

14 En God het ook die Here opgewek en sal ons opwek deur sy krag.

15 Weet julle nie dat julle liggame lede van Christus is nie? Sal ek dan die lede van Christus neem en dit lede van 'n hoer maak? Nee, stellig nie!

16 Of weet julle nie dat hy wat 'n hoer aanhang, met haar een liggaam is nie? Want die twee, sê Hy, sal een vlees wees.

17 Maar wie die Here aanhang, is een gees met Hom.

18 Vlug vir die hoerery. Enige sonde wat 'n mens doen, is buite die liggaam; maar wie hoerery bedryf sondig teen sy eie liggaam.

19 Of weet julle nie dat julle liggaam 'n tempel is van die Heilige Gees wat in julle is, wat julle van God het, en dat julle nie aan julself behoort nie?

20 Want julle is duur gekoop. Verheerlik God dan in julle liggaam en in julle gees wat aan God behoort.

1 How is it, that if any one of you has a cause at law against another, he takes it before a Gentile judge and not before the saints?

2 Is it not certain that the saints will be the judges of the world? if then the world will be judged by you, are you unable to give a decision about the smallest things?

3 Is it not certain that we are to be the judges of angels? how much more then of the things of this life?

4 If then there are questions to be judged in connection with the things of this life, why do you put them in the hands of those who have no position in the church?

5 I say this to put you to shame. Is there not among you one wise man who may be able to give a decision between his brothers?

6 But a brother who has a cause at law against another takes it before Gentile judges.

7 More than this, it is not to your credit to have causes at law with one another at all. Why not put up with wrong? why not undergo loss?

8 So far from doing this, you yourselves do wrong and take your brothers' property.

9 Have you not knowledge that evil-doers will have no part in the kingdom of God? Have no false ideas about this: no one who goes after the desires of the flesh, or gives worship to images, or is untrue when married, or is less than a man, or makes a wrong use of men,

10 Or is a thief, or the worse for drink, or makes use of strong language, or takes by force what is not his, will have any part in the kingdom of God.

11 And such were some of you; but you have been washed, you have been made holy, you have been given righteousness in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

12 I am free to do all things; but not all things are wise. I am free to do all things; but I will not let myself come under the power of any.

13 Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will put an end to them together. But the body is not for the desires of the flesh, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:

14 And God who made the Lord Jesus come back from the dead will do the same for us by his power.

15 Do you not see that your bodies are part of the body of Christ? how then may I take what is a part of the body of Christ and make it a part of the body of a loose woman? such a thing may not be.

16 Or do you not see that he who is joined to a loose woman is one body with her? for God has said, The two of them will become one flesh.

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

18 Keep away from the desires of the flesh. Every sin which a man does is outside of the body; but he who goes after the desires of the flesh does evil to his body.

19 Or are you not conscious that your body is a house for the Holy Spirit which is in you, and which has been given to you by God? and you are not the owners of yourselves;

20 For a payment has been made for you: let God be honoured in your body.