1 When one of you has something against someone else in your group, why do you go to the judges in the law courts? The way they think and live is wrong. So why do you let them decide who is right? Why don’t you let YAHUSHA’S Set-Apart people decide who’s right? 2 Don’t you know that YAHUSHA’S people will judge the whole world? So if you will judge the world, then surely you can judge small arguments like this. 3 You know that in the future we will even judge the Angels. So surely we can judge life’s ordinary problems. 4 So if you have such matters to be judged, why do you take them to those who are not part of the Fellowship? (COURTS/LAWYERS etc) They mean nothing to you. 5 I say this to shame you. Surely there is someone in your group wise enough to judge such a complaint between two believers. 6 But now one believer goes to court against another, and you let people who are not believers judge their case!
7 The lawsuits that you have against each other show that you are already defeated. It would be better for you to let someone wrong you. It would be better to let someone cheat you. 8 But you are the ones doing wrong and cheating. And you do this to your own Brothers and Sisters in Messiah!
9-10 Surely you know that people who do wrong will not get to enjoy YAHUSHA’S Kingdom. Don’t be fooled. These are the people who will not get to enjoy His Kingdom: those who sin sexually, those who worship idols, those who commit adultery, LGBTQIA, those who steal, those who are greedy, those who drink too much, those who abuse others with insults, and those who cheat. 11 In the past some of you were like that. But you were washed clean, you were made Set-Apart, and you were made right with YAHUAH in the Name of the MASTER YAHUSHA MESSIAH and through His Spirit.
12 “O’ but I’m allowed to do anything,” you say. Well my answer to this is that not all things are good. Even if it’s true that “I’m allowed to do anything,” I won’t let anything control me like a slave. 13 Someone else says, “Food is for the stomach, and the stomach for food.” Yes, and YAHUSHA will destroy them both. But the body is not for sexual sin. The body is for the Master, and the Master is for the body. 14 And YAHUSHA will raise our bodies from death with the same power He used to raise the MASTER YAHUSHA. 15 Surely you know that your bodies are Temples of the Set-Apart Spirit. So I must never take what is part of Messiah and join it to a whore! 16 The Scriptures say, “The two people will become one.” So you should know that anyone who is joined with a whore becomes one with her in body. 17 But anyone who is joined with the Master is one with Him in Spirit.
18 So run away from sexual sin. It involves the body in a way that no other sin does. So if you commit sexual sin, you are sinning against your own body. 19 You should know that your body is a Temple for the Set-Apart Spirit that you received from YAHUSHA and that lives in you. You don’t own yourselves! 20 YAHUSHA paid a very high price to make you His own special, set-apart property and family. So honour and respect YAHUSHA with your whole body.
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