2. Surely you know that God’s people will judge the world. So if you are to judge the world, are you not able to judge small cases as well?
3. You know that in the future we will judge angels, so surely we can judge the ordinary things of this life.
4. If you have ordinary cases that must be judged, are you going to appoint people as judges who mean nothing to the church?
5. I say this to shame you. Surely there is someone among you wise enough to judge a complaint between believers.
6. But now one believer goes to court against another believer—and you do this in front of unbelievers!
7. The fact that you have lawsuits against each other shows that you are already defeated. Why not let yourselves be wronged? Why not let yourselves be cheated?
8. But you yourselves do wrong and cheat, and you do this to other believers!
11. In the past, some of you were like that, but you were washed clean. You were made holy, and you were made right with God in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.