1 DOES any one of you, if he has a grievance against another, dare to bring the case before the unrighteous and not before the holy?

2 Do you not know that the holy are going to judge the world? If the world is to be judged by you, are you unfit for the most trivial cases?

3 Do you not know that we are to judge angels, to say nothing of affairs of this life?

4 If then you have affairs of this life, do you ask men who in the view of the church count for nothing to sit as judges?

5 I say this to your shame. Is it true that there is among you no one wise enough to judge between a man and his brother,