Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

Take Your Disputes With Brothers To Wise Judges In The Church, Not To The World’s Courts

6 Does any one of you, having a matter against the other, dare to go-to-court^[a] before the unrighteous ones, and not before the saints? ² Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy of the smallest cases^[b]? ³ Do you not know that we will judge angels? Shall I not-indeed mention things-pertaining-to-this-life? ⁴ So indeed, if you have cases pertaining-to-this-life, are you seating^[c] these [as judges]— the ones having been of-no-account^[d] in the church? ⁵ I say this to your shame. So is there not among you anyone wise who will be able to discern^[e] between his brother and this brother?— ⁶ but brother is going-to-court against brother, and this before unbelievers?

Better To Be Wronged Than To Wrong Your Brother With a Lawsuit

⁷ So indeed, it is already actually a defeat^[f] for you that you have lawsuits with each other. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded^[g]? ⁸ But you are wronging and defrauding— and this [your own] brothers!

Wrongdoers Will Not Inherit The Kingdom. But You Were Cleansed of Such Things

⁹ Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit God’s kingdom? Do not be deceived. Neither sexually-immoral ones, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homo-erotic-partners^[h], nor homosexuals^[i], ¹⁰ nor thieves, nor greedy ones— not drunkards, not revilers, not swindlers— will inherit the kingdom of God. ¹¹ And some of you were these things. But you washed-them-away^[j], but you were sanctified^[k], but you were declared-righteous in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.