Lawsuits among Believers
If any of you has a grievance against another, how dare he go to law before the unrighteous instead of before the saints! Mat 18:15-17Act 19:381Co 14:331Co 16:11Co 6:6-7Act 18:14-151Co 1:21Co 16:15 Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases? Mat 19:28Dan 7:22Rev 20:4Luk 22:30Rev 3:21Rev 2:26-27Dan 7:181Co 6:4 Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life! Jud 1:6Mat 25:411Co 6:4Luk 8:142Pe 2:42Ti 2:42Ti 4:10Luk 21:34
So if you need to settle everyday matters, do you appoint as judges those of no standing in the church? 1Co 5:12Act 6:2-4 I say this to your shame. Is there really no one among you wise enough to arbitrate between his brothers? 1Co 15:341Co 4:14Jas 3:13-181Co 11:141Co 3:181Co 4:10Jas 1:5Pro 14:8 Instead, one brother goes to law against another, and this in front of unbelievers! Php 2:14-151Jn 2:9-111Jn 3:11-152Co 6:141Co 6:11Co 6:7Act 7:26Gen 13:7-9
The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means that you are thoroughly defeated already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated? Rom 12:17-19Pro 20:221Pe 2:19-231Pe 3:9Mat 5:39-41Jas 4:1-31Th 5:15Luk 6:29 Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, even against your own brothers! 1 1Th 4:6Col 3:25Jas 5:4Lev 19:13Mal 3:5Mic 2:2Mrk 10:19
Members of Christ
Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts, 1Ti 1:9-10Gal 5:19-21Eph 5:4-5Lev 20:13Lev 18:22Rev 21:8Rev 22:151Co 6:10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. 1Co 5:11Gal 5:21Eph 4:28Ezk 22:291Pe 4:15Ezk 22:27Mat 23:331Th 4:6 And that is what some of you were. 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. 1Co 1:30Col 3:5-71Co 1:2Rom 6:17-19Act 22:161Pe 1:2Rom 8:30Tit 3:3-7
“Everything is permissible for me,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible for me,” but I will not be mastered by anything. 1Co 10:23-331Co 9:27Heb 12:15-16Rom 14:14-231Co 8:7-132Th 3:91Co 8:41Co 9:12 “Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will destroy them both. The body is not intended for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 1Co 6:191Co 3:16Rom 6:121Co 6:151Th 4:3-7Eph 5:23Mat 15:17Rom 12:1 By His power God raised the Lord from the dead, and He will raise us also. 2Co 4:14Rom 8:11Eph 1:19-20Php 3:21Act 2:24Jhn 6:39-40Rom 6:4-81Th 4:14
Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! Eph 5:30Rom 12:5Eph 4:15-16Col 2:191Co 12:27Eph 4:121Co 11:31Co 6:19 Or don’t you know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.” 2 Gen 2:24Eph 5:31Mrk 10:8Mat 19:5-6Mat 21:31-32Gen 34:31Gen 38:24Heb 11:31 But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with Him in spirit. Jhn 17:21-23Gal 2:201Co 12:13Eph 4:3-4Jhn 3:6Eph 5:30Php 2:5
The Temple of the Holy Spirit
(Romans 12:1–8; 1 Corinthians 3:16–23)
Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. 1Pe 2:111Th 4:3Col 3:5Rom 6:12-132Ti 2:22Heb 13:41Co 6:9Eph 5:3 Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 1Co 3:162Co 6:161Pe 2:5Eph 2:21-221Co 6:15-16Psa 100:3Tit 2:14Rom 14:7-9 you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body. 3 1Co 7:23Rom 12:11Pe 2:91Pe 1:18Heb 9:12Php 1:20Act 20:28Gal 3:13