2Is it not certain that the saints will be the judges of the world? if then the world will be judged by you, are you unable to give a decision about the smallest things?
3Is it not certain that we are to be the judges of angels? how much more then of the things of this life?
4If then there are questions to be judged in connection with the things of this life, why do you put them in the hands of those who have no position in the church?
5I say this to put you to shame. Is there not among you one wise man who may be able to give a decision between his brothers?
6But a brother who has a cause at law against another takes it before Gentile judges.
7More than this, it is not to your credit to have causes at law with one another at all. Why not put up with wrong? why not undergo loss?
8So far from doing this, you yourselves do wrong and take your brothers' property.
