12Maaih mienh oix gorngv, “Haaix nyungc yie maaih leiz zoux duqv nyei.” Zeiz nyei, mv baac maiv zeiz nyungc-nyungc maaih lamh longc. Yie haih gorngv, “Haaix nyungc yie maaih leiz zoux duqv nyei,” mv baac yie maiv bun haaix nyungc hoic yie zoux nouh.⚓13Aengx maaih mienh oix gorngv, “Nyanc hopv se weic ga'sie, ga'sie se weic nyanc hopv.” Zeiz nyei, mv baac i nyungc zungv Tin-Hungh oix mietc nzengc. Mienh nyei sin se maiv zeiz weic buangh liouh nyei jauv, se weic fu-sux Ziouv. Ziouv yaac goux mbuo nyei sin. 14Tin-Hungh bun Ziouv nangh daaih. Tin-Hungh yaac oix longc ninh nyei qaqv bun mbuo aengx nangh daaih fih hnangv nyei. 15Meih mbuo maiv hiuv fai? Meih mbuo nyei sin se Giduc nyei sin nyei yietc nyungc. Hnangv naaic, yie oix zuqc dorh Giduc nyei sin mingh benx maaic buonv-sin nyei m'sieqv dorn nyei sin nyei yietc nyungc fai? Zungv maiv zeiz! 16Meih mbuo maiv hiuv fai? Mienh hienx maaic buonv-sin nyei m'sieqv dorn ziouc caux wuov dauh benx yietc norm sin, weic zuqc Ging-Sou gorngv, “Ninh mbuo i dauh ziouc benx yietc norm sin mi'aqv.”⚓ 17Mv baac haaix dauh caux Ziouv gapv jienv, wuov dauh ziouc caux Ziouv benx yietc diuc hnyouv aqv. 18Oix zuqc simv nqoi hienx nyei jauv. Mienh baamz nyei haaix nyungc zuiz se hoic maiv zuqc sin. Mv baac zoux hienx nyei sic⚓ se hoic ganh nyei sin. 19Meih mbuo maiv hiuv fai? Meih mbuo nyei sin se Singx Lingh nyei dinc. Tin-Hungh bun daaih nyei Singx Lingh yiem meih mbuo gu'nyuoz. Meih mbuo nyei sin se maiv zeiz meih mbuo ganh nyei, se Tin-Hungh nyei,⚓20weic zuqc Tin-Hungh maaiz meih mbuo jaaix haic. Hnangv naaic, meih mbuo oix zuqc longc meih mbuo nyei sin taaih Tin-Hungh.
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Lawsuits Among Believers
1If any of you has a dispute with another, do you dare to take it before the ungodly for judgment instead of before the Lord’s people? 2Or do you not know that the Lord’s people will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases? 3Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life! 4Therefore, if you have disputes about such matters, do you ask for a ruling from those whose way of life is scorned in the church? 5I say this to shame you. Is it possible that there is nobody among you wise enough to judge a dispute between believers? 6But instead, one brother takes another to court—and this in front of unbelievers! 7The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means you have been completely defeated already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated? 8Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, and you do this to your brothers and sisters. 9Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men⚓10nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11And 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.
Sexual Immorality
12“I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but I will not be mastered by anything. 13You say, “Food for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will destroy them both.” The body, however, is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also. 15Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! 16Do you not 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.”⚓17But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit.⚓ 18Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body. 19Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.