Tiesāšanās starp ticīgajiem
1 Ja kādam no jums ir tiesājama lieta pret otru, vai viņš uzdrošināsies iet tiesā pie netaisnajiem, nevis pie svētajiem? 2 Vai tad jūs nezināt, ka svētie tiesās pasauli? Ja nu jums ir jātiesā pasaule, vai tad jūs neesat cienīgi spriest arī vismazākās tiesājamās lietas? 3 Vai jūs nezināt, ka mēs tiesāsim eņģeļus? Un vai ne vēl vairāk laicīgās lietas? 4 Ja jums ir tiesājama laicīga lieta, kādēļ pie tiesāšanas liekat tos, kas draudzē nav cienīti? 5 Kauns jums! – es saku. Vai tad starp jums nav neviena tik gudra, kas varētu spriest tiesu starp brāļiem? 6 Brālis tiesājas pret brāli – un tiesātāji turklāt būs neticīgie? 7 Jau tā jūs esat zaudētāji, ka tiesājaties savā starpā. Kādēļ tad labāk nepanesat netaisnību? Kādēļ nepanesat krāpšanu? 8 Bet jūs paši esat tādi, kas darāt pārestības un krāpjaties un vēl pret saviem brāļiem. 9 Vai jūs nezināt, ka netaisnie neiemantos Dieva valstību? Nemaldiniet sevi! Nedz izvirtuļi, nedz elku kalpi, nedz laulības apgānītāji, nedz baudu kārie, nedz vīriešu piegulētāji, 10 nedz zagļi, nedz alkatīgie, nedz dzērāji, nedz rupjību runātāji, nedz laupītāji Dieva valstību neiemantos. 11 Daži no jums tādi ir bijuši, bet jūs tikāt nomazgāti, tikāt svētīti, tikāt attaisnoti mūsu Kunga Jēzus Kristus vārdā un mūsu Dieva Garā.
Godiniet Dievu arī ar savu miesu
12 Viss man ir ļauts, bet ne viss man der; viss man ir ļauts, bet nekam pār mani nebūs varas. 13 Barība ir vēderam un vēders barībai, bet Dievs atcels gan vienu, gan otru. Miesa nepieder netiklībai, bet Kungam, un Kungs gādā par miesu. 14 Dievs augšāmcēla Kungu un uzcels arī mūs caur savu spēku. 15 Vai jūs nezināt, ka jūsu miesa ir Kristus locekļi? Vai tad es varu ņemt Kristus locekļus un darīt tos par netiklības locekļiem? Tam nenotikt! 16 Vai nezināt, ka tas, kas savienojies ar netikli, ir viena miesa? Ir sacīts: divi būs viena miesa. 17 Bet tas, kas savienojies ar Kungu, ir viens gars ar viņu. 18 Bēdziet no netiklības! Jebkurš cits grēks, ko cilvēks pastrādā, ir ārpus miesas, bet, kas netiklību piekopj, grēko pret savu paša miesu. 19 Vai gan jūs nezināt, ka jūsu miesa ir templis Svētajam Garam, kas ir jūsos un ir no Dieva? Jūs tātad nepiederat paši sev. 20 Jūs esat dārgi atpirkti. Tad nu pagodiniet Dievu savā miesā.
Lawsuits against Fellow Christians
1 If any of you have a dispute with another Christian, how dare you go before heathen judges instead of letting God's people settle the matter? 2 Don't you know that God's people will judge the world? Well, then, if you are to judge the world, aren't you capable of judging small matters? 3 Do you not know that we shall judge the angels? How much more, then, the things of this life! 4 If such matters come up, are you going to take them to be settled by people who have no standing in the church? 5 Shame on you! Surely there is at least one wise person in your fellowship who can settle a dispute between fellow Christians. 6 Instead, one Christian goes to court against another and lets unbelievers judge the case!
7 The very fact that you have legal disputes among yourselves shows that you have failed completely. Would it not be better for you to be wronged? Would it not be better for you to be robbed? 8 Instead, you yourselves wrong one another and rob one another, even other believers! 9 Surely you know that the wicked will not possess God's Kingdom. Do not fool yourselves; people who are immoral or who worship idols or are adulterers or homosexual perverts 10 or who steal or are greedy or are drunkards or who slander others or are thieves—none of these will possess God's Kingdom. 11 Some of you were like that. But you have been purified from sin; you have been dedicated to God; you have been put right with God by the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
Use Your Bodies for God's Glory
12 Someone will say, “I am allowed to do anything.” Yes; but not everything is good for you. I could say that I am allowed to do anything, but I am not going to let anything make me its slave. 13 Someone else will say, “Food is for the stomach, and the stomach is for food.” Yes; but God will put an end to both. The body is not to be used for sexual immorality, but to serve the Lord; and the Lord provides for the body. 14 God raised the Lord from death, and he will also raise us by his power.
15 You know that your bodies are parts of the body of Christ. Shall I take a part of Christ's body and make it part of the body of a prostitute? Impossible! 16 Or perhaps you don't know that the man who joins his body to a prostitute becomes physically one with her? The scripture says quite plainly, “The two will become one body.” 17 But he who joins himself to the Lord becomes spiritually one with him.
18 Avoid immorality. Any other sin a man commits does not affect his body; but the man who is guilty of sexual immorality sins against his own body. 19 Don't you know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and who was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourselves but to God; 20 he bought you for a price. So use your bodies for God's glory.
