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Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?

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Or know ye not that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

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Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more, things that pertain to this life?

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If then ye have to judge things pertaining to this life, do ye set them to judge who are of no account in the assembly?

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I say this to move you to shame. What, cannot there be found among you one wise man who shall be able to decide between his brethren,

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but brother goeth to law with brother, and that before unbelievers?

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Nay, already it is altogether a defect in you, that ye have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather take wrong? why not rather be defrauded?

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Nay, but ye yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.

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Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of YAHUVEH? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men,

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nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of YAHUVEH.

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And such were some of you: but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the name of the Master YAHUSHUA the Messiah, and in the Spirit of our YAHUVEH.

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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 any.

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Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but YAHUVEH shall bring to nought both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Master; and the Master for the body:

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and YAHUVEH both raised the Master, and will raise up as through his power.

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Know ye not that your bodies are members of Messiah? shall I then take away the members of Messiah, and make them members of a harlot? YAHUVEH forbid.

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Or know ye not that he that is joined to a harlot is one body? for, The twain, saith he, shall become one flesh.

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But he that is joined unto the Master is one spirit.

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Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

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Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from YAHUVEH? and ye are not your own;

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for ye were bought with a price: glorify YAHUVEH therefore in your body.