Believers Should Not Sue One Another

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Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?

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Or know ye not that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

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Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more, things that pertain to this life?

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If then ye have to judge things pertaining to this life, do ye set them to judge who are of no account in the church?

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I say this to move you to shame. What, cannot there be found among you one wise man who shall be able to decide between his brethren,

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but brother goeth to law with brother, and that before unbelievers?

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Nay, already it is altogether a defect in you, that ye have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather take wrong? why not rather be defrauded?

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Nay, but ye yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.