¹ Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?

¹⁴ But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, If indeed it were a matter of wrong or of wicked villany, O ye Jews, reason would that I should bear with you:

¹⁵ but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves; I am not minded to be a judge of these matters.

³⁸ If therefore Demetrius, and the craftsmen that are with him, have a matter against any man, the courts are open, and there are proconsuls: let them accuse one another.

¹⁵ And if thy brother sin against thee, go, show him his fault between thee and him alone: if he hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.

¹⁶ But if he hear `thee' not, take with thee one or two more, that at the mouth of two witnesses or three every word may be established.

¹⁷ And if he refuse to hear them, tell it unto the church: and if he refuse to hear the church also, let him be unto thee as the Gentile and the publican.

⁶ but brother goeth to law with brother, and that before unbelievers?

⁷ 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?

³³ for God is not `a God' of confusion, but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints,

¹ Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I gave order to the churches of Galatia, so also do ye.

² unto the church of God which is at Corinth, `even' them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called `to be' saints, with all that call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, their `Lord' and ours:

¹⁵ Now I beseech you, brethren (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have set themselves to minister unto the saints),