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.
9Have you not knowledge that evil-doers will have no part in the kingdom of God? Have no false ideas about this: no one who goes after the desires of the flesh, or gives worship to images, or is untrue when married, or is less than a man, or makes a wrong use of men,
10Or is a thief, or the worse for drink, or makes use of strong language, or takes by force what is not his, will have any part in the kingdom of God.
