Lawsuits among believers

Does any of you dare,
when he has a matter of complaint against another [brother],
to go to law before unrighteous men
[men neither upright nor right with God, laying it before them]
instead of before the saints (the people of God)?

Do you not know that the saints (the believers) will [one day] judge and govern the world?
And if the world [itself] is to be judged and ruled by you,
are you unworthy and incompetent to try [such petty matters]
of the smallest courts of justice?

Do you not know also that we [Christians] are to judge the [very] angels
and pronounce opinion between right and wrong [for them]?
How much more then [as to] matters pertaining to this world and of this life only!

If then you do have such cases of everyday life to decide,
why do you appoint [as judges to lay them before] those who
[from the standpoint] of the church count for least and are without standing?

I say this to move you to shame.
Can it be that there really is not one man among you
who [in action is governed by piety and integrity and]
is wise and competent enough
to decide [the private grievances, disputes, and quarrels]
between members of the brotherhood,

But brother goes to law against brother,
and that before [Gentile judges who are] unbelievers
[without faith or trust in the Gospel of Christ]?

Why, the very fact of your having lawsuits with one another at all
is a defect (a defeat, an evidence of positive moral loss for you).
Why not rather let yourselves suffer wrong and be deprived of what is your due?
Why not rather be cheated (defrauded and robbed)?

But [instead it is you] yourselves who wrong and defraud,
and that even your own brethren [by so treating them]!

Do you not know that the unrighteous and the wrongdoers
will not inherit or have any share in the kingdom of God?
Do not be deceived (misled):
neither the impure and immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers,
nor those who participate in homosexuality,

Nor cheats (swindlers and thieves), nor greedy graspers, nor drunkards,
nor foulmouthed revilers and slanderers,
nor extortioners and robbers will inherit or have any share in the kingdom of God.

And such some of you were [once].
But you were washed clean
(purified by a complete atonement for sin and made free from the guilt of sin),
and you were consecrated (set apart, hallowed),
and you were justified [pronounced righteous, by trusting]
in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the [Holy] Spirit of our God.