005:011 But what I meant was that you were not to associate with
any one bearing the name of "brother," if he was addicted
to fornication or avarice or idol-worship or abusive language
or hard-drinking or greed of gain. With such a man you ought
not even to eat.
005:012 For what business of mine is it to judge outsiders?
Is it not for you to judge those who are within the Church
005:013 while you leave to God's judgement those who are outside?
Remove the wicked man from among you.
006:001 If one of you has a grievance against an opponent, does he dare
to go to law before irreligious men and not before God's people?
006:002 Do you not know that God's people will sit in judgement upon
the world? And if you are the court before which the world is
to be judged, are you unfit to deal with these petty matters?
006:003 Do you not know that we are to sit in judgement upon angels--
to say nothing of things belonging to this life?
006:004 If therefore you have things belonging to this life which need
to be decided, is it men who are absolutely nothing in the Church--
is it *they* whom you make your judges?
006:005 I say this to put you to shame. Has it come to this,
that there does not exist among you a single wise man competent
to decide between a man and his brother,
006:006 but brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers?
006:007 To say no more, then, it is altogether a defect in you that you
have law-suits with one another. Why not rather endure injustice?
Why not rather submit to being defrauded?
006:008 On the contrary you yourselves inflict injustice and fraud,
and upon brethren too.
006:009 Do you not know that unrighteous men will not inherit
God's Kingdom? Cherish no delusion here. Neither fornicators,